Gramps the home for all the old family photos?

Can Gramps be a home for all the old family photos?

Has anyone already done this and loaded all old family photos into Gramps?
I have been looking for a home for all (almost all) of the family’s old photos for a long time. I am now the last person in the family who still knows the names of the people in the old photos. With Gramps I could prevent the loss of my knowledge.
Would that work or would it cause Gramps to collapse?
I was hoping to use Gramps web to let my relatives share the old photos. But the application is too difficult for me and I can’t get it to work…

The thread is relevant:

Althoigh, instead of being a Photo Detective, you are asking about using it as a Photo Album. And many of the same difficulties apply.

It sounds like you want a simple photo management application, not a genealogical database system. In which case, why not use Google Photos?

Google Photos is not necessarily for the whole family. My plan is actually to assign the pictures to the people in Gramps and present them to the whole family in Gramps web.
In a photo management system it only says that they are Aunt Elsa and Uncle Heinrich. It is important that you can also see how Aunt Elsa and Uncle Heinrich are related to me.
That is not possible in a photo management system.

Last month I completed scanning 3700 photo going back before 1910. Windows Photo allows me to add a description to each picture so I added all the names I knew or was written on the back of the picture including the date if known. I have these stored on a couple of devices. They were also uploaded to our son’s Fickr account so that the family can view them. I’m looking for an easy way to now scan the thousands of slides we have (which turns out to be much more difficult).
I did select a few scanned pictures to add to gramps just so I could include a profile picture. I also don’t think gramps is the correct application to store large numbers of family photos.
P.S our son’s Flickr account is a paid subscription and he has over 80,000 pictures stored there. He keeps the originals on his NAS.

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In addition to the previous post. If the description is added to the picture, the information can be searched in windows if you turn on indexing on the partition. The description also can be viewed on the Flickr account.

Umm, it might be. Take a look at this recent topic:

Tonfotos is not a product I’d ever consider using but it be what you are looking for.

You may want a 2-part solution. First, Gramps to build a family tree and add photos so that you have at least one good photo of each person of interest. But Gramps isn’t particularly designed for organizing lots of photos, so …

Some kinds of photo organization software, probably that syncs to the web so you can share with others. Most such software now includes facial recognition which can save you a huge amount of time in indentifying group shots. Such software will let you make “smart albums” that include photos meeting certain criteria such as including one or more people, at a certain location, on a certain date, etc. Much more flexible than Gramps. Unfortunately, I don’t know a good way to integrate such a collection tightly into Gramps.

HTH,

Craig

The only easy way is to find someone local to you who offers a slide scanning service and pay them to do it for you. The only other ways are to either buy a flatbed scanner that can also do transparencies or re-photograph them, typically with a good DSLR camera.

I scanned all the family slides with this one. A bit expensive but I sold it afterwards.
It worked very well.
The previous models are not as expensive

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I only have a small number of Family Photos on GRAMPs

Probably get excommunicated for this but I use
digiKam a dedicated free photo album program can use it on Windows and
Linux not sure about Mac

phil

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It’s similar with Adobe Lightroom and I have more confidence in it for the future.

Thanks for the suggestion, however, what complicates things is that they are all in round trays and it is a pain to take them out one or three at a time to scan them. Haven’t tried it yet, but may project them on a screen and take a digital picture of them with my DSLR.

If all you want is a ‘snap’ than that will be OK but if you want as good a copy as possible then you need to photograph the actual slide. Search something like ‘scan slides with dslr’ to get more details.

Don’t think there’s anything heretical about digiKam but if you do find yourself out in the cold, come and find me because I still use Picasa as my photo catalogue, despite it being abandoned by Google donkey’s years ago.

Here are instructions on how to convert a slide projector. Test in German. But you can translate it.

Just remember, if you really want the best way of storing and keep your history and knowledge for each photo, you need to save the data/information as IPTC metadata in the files…

You should also save all scanned images as TIFF and make jpg copies to use…

Alternatives to Gramps for a photo-storage/gallery can be software like Darktable or Tropy, both are open source and free to use.

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@StoltHD I know DigiKam and Darktable but I’ve never heard of Trophy. I can find a 2D car race game by that name but nothing to do with photo management. Link please?

Craig

Probably Tropy that has been autocorrected.

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Yep… you are correct, corrected it now…

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