The post-vacation-Immich-to-photobook-workflow discussion
So we are back from vacation and brought a ton of photos, all dumped into Immich, in fact, roughly 3k pictures. All collected in an album shared with my partner. She loves to create photobooks for our trips, so she will pick photos from that shared album. Many of those are raws , 100mb+ often per pic. She will screen them in Immich web gui and select for editing on the desktop in ps for download.
And here the pain starts: the originals being really large, the download will get stuck when selecting more then 10 pictures or so at once because I don’t know: zip too large, my server too slow, safari being safari. Whatever. TLDR: downloading many large originals in the browser is a pain. Sure there are other ways, but they don’t combine well with the screening process where I want to look at my pre generated thumbnails.
My feature idea for example: a take-out mode: activate it and select your pics, like add to cart. When done and you submit, you can choose: do I get a json with asset ids I can throw at the api for downloading or will the server start in the background to create nicely sized zips I can later download from a download page, Getting an email when they are ready. The workflow needs to work for non-techies, not me as admin.
I’m interested: would this be a useful feature or do I miss existing features?
What are your workflows for this?
I explicitly want to start this discussion in order not to create the 1001st vibe coded extension project that are maintained for 72h.