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I use it in a docker instance but it's a bit persnickety so I need to restart it every so often. But yeah I use it for mood boards for my novel. The annoying

I use it in a docker instance but it's a bit persnickety so I need to restart it every so often. But yeah I use it for mood boards for my novel. The annoying thing is it assumes you want to save links, you can't just upload media to it directly, you have to instead feed it a url and configure its thumbnails to be really large. I don't really know if there's an easy way to build a tagged image gallery of images I found surfing the web but pinry is a great start.

tenebrisalietum 4y ago
For a tagged image gallery, look into Shimmie 2.
- Multicomp 4y ago
  Wow, this looks quite nice, thanks!
JKCalhoun 4y ago
Mood boards — sounds interesting. How does that work, if you don't mind? I think I sort of do the same thing but never heard it called anything. Googling it now, but still wondering how you use it.
- sdoering 4y ago
  Designers use it to visualize the look (or mood) the would be going for in a design. They collect examples of images that all go into the same rough direction they could be going for in a design and collect those into one moodboard. Then they would contrast that with a different direction on a second moodboard. And oftentimes more than two directions. These help them to narrow down potential avenues to explore further. Either for themselves or especially with a client. Clients often profit from the visual aspect enabling them to point out what they like (and especially what they do not like). The designer can then ask questions regarding what especially they like, if it is the color, the combination of colors, the way the font is set and so on. From there the designer starts their own exploration of what they learned from the client (or from asking themselves the same questions). It's a tool for exploring a space of vast possibilities and narrowing them down onto a manageable level. [Edit] * Disclaimer * I am not a Designer. But I've worked with quite a few and found moodboards to be a helpful tool. But they can have their drawbacks when clients fall in love with one or two specific examples in a moodboard and are disappointed because the designer's own exploration will necessarily differ from those.
- Multicomp 4y ago
  With my novel, I am wanting to capture the mood of in-novel entity details such as for example a particular setting. A given location/setting starts in my head as something as simple as: the protagonist's home village the quirky support characters castle the villain's lair Readers love specificity, so while you are able to understand the aim of a setting in only the above few words, there is no atmosphere to help someone imagine the details of a particular setting. But with a mood board, I can save several images that have aspects of an entity (such as a setting, character design, creature design, item, or article of clothing) in my novel worth talking about. These images are either mentally marked up or actually marked up using a graphics tablet to show which aspect I want from that image. That "completes" a particular mood board. Later, when I'm writing the manuscript copy, I can look at the mood board and use it as a mental checklist to make certain that I have used all of the various creative aspects that I intended to for a given entity. If it turns out that my descriptions have been rounded out completely in this particular unit of copy and I need to get on to the scene or sequel content, then the unused mood board details will sit there as inspiration in the future.
  - JKCalhoun 4y ago
    Very cool. I think I want some sort of "slide show" app running on a dedicated PC (maybe Raspberry Pi) + display. A folder of images and a few slide-show config parameters on how to display the images would be all that is needed. You could archive the image folder + settings for, as you say, future use. I would like to think something like the already exists (but easy enough tot create if not).

tenebrisalietum 4y ago

For a tagged image gallery, look into Shimmie 2.

Multicomp 4y ago
Wow, this looks quite nice, thanks!

JKCalhoun 4y ago

Mood boards — sounds interesting. How does that work, if you don't mind? I think I sort of do the same thing but never heard it called anything. Googling it now, but still wondering how you use it.

sdoering 4y ago
Designers use it to visualize the look (or mood) the would be going for in a design. They collect examples of images that all go into the same rough direction they could be going for in a design and collect those into one moodboard. Then they would contrast that with a different direction on a second moodboard. And oftentimes more than two directions. These help them to narrow down potential avenues to explore further. Either for themselves or especially with a client. Clients often profit from the visual aspect enabling them to point out what they like (and especially what they do not like). The designer can then ask questions regarding what especially they like, if it is the color, the combination of colors, the way the font is set and so on. From there the designer starts their own exploration of what they learned from the client (or from asking themselves the same questions). It's a tool for exploring a space of vast possibilities and narrowing them down onto a manageable level. [Edit] * Disclaimer * I am not a Designer. But I've worked with quite a few and found moodboards to be a helpful tool. But they can have their drawbacks when clients fall in love with one or two specific examples in a moodboard and are disappointed because the designer's own exploration will necessarily differ from those.
Multicomp 4y ago
With my novel, I am wanting to capture the mood of in-novel entity details such as for example a particular setting. A given location/setting starts in my head as something as simple as: the protagonist's home village the quirky support characters castle the villain's lair Readers love specificity, so while you are able to understand the aim of a setting in only the above few words, there is no atmosphere to help someone imagine the details of a particular setting. But with a mood board, I can save several images that have aspects of an entity (such as a setting, character design, creature design, item, or article of clothing) in my novel worth talking about. These images are either mentally marked up or actually marked up using a graphics tablet to show which aspect I want from that image. That "completes" a particular mood board. Later, when I'm writing the manuscript copy, I can look at the mood board and use it as a mental checklist to make certain that I have used all of the various creative aspects that I intended to for a given entity. If it turns out that my descriptions have been rounded out completely in this particular unit of copy and I need to get on to the scene or sequel content, then the unused mood board details will sit there as inspiration in the future.
- JKCalhoun 4y ago
  Very cool. I think I want some sort of "slide show" app running on a dedicated PC (maybe Raspberry Pi) + display. A folder of images and a few slide-show config parameters on how to display the images would be all that is needed. You could archive the image folder + settings for, as you say, future use. I would like to think something like the already exists (but easy enough tot create if not).