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Lap is an open-source, local-first desktop photo manager for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It works directly with existing folders and keeps original photos and videos on the user's disk rather than requiring cloud upload or a closed import database. It provides browsing and filtering by metadata, folders, locations, cameras, tags, ratings, and faces; map views; rule-based Smart Albums; collections; duplicate detection and cleanup; culling and comparison tools; editing; format support for photos, RAW files, and videos; and support for grouped assets such as Live Photos and RAW-plus-JPEG/HEIC pairs. Its local AI features use ONNX Runtime with CLIP for image-text similarity search and InsightFace for face detection and recognition. AI search, visual similarity, subject tags, face clustering, and optional multilingual search run on the local machine. The application is built with Tauri and Rust, with a Vue/Vite/Tailwind frontend and SQLite storage; local catalog data includes collections, tags, ratings, culling states, Smart Album rules, AI indexes, face data, and thumbnails, while the original media remains in ordinary filesystem folders. Lap is distributed as desktop packages for macOS, Windows, and Linux, including a Homebrew cask, Debian packages, and AppImages. It is licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later.

OmaPhoto is a layered image editor for Linux, developed first for Omarchy. It provides layers, folders, masks, clipping masks, blend modes, selections, painting and retouching tools, transforms, adjustment layers, layer effects, filters, text, shapes, and image export. It imports JPEG, PNG, TIFF, HEIC, Photoshop files, and camera RAW images. OmaPhoto is a Linux port of Wonder Assembly's macOS Compositor and follows Compositor's tools, menus, shortcuts, and layered project format. It can read and write .comp projects so projects can move between the two applications. Its offline Remove Background feature uses U²-Net through ONNX Runtime; the editor also includes Content-Aware Fill, Gaussian and motion blur, noise, lens correction, and other image adjustments. The project distributes packages for x86_64 Arch, Ubuntu, Fedora, and NixOS systems, and can also be built from source with Docker or a C++20, Qt 6.4-or-later, CMake, Ninja, image-format, RAW-processing, font, and ONNX Runtime toolchain. It is licensed under MIT.

Travel Photo Abstraction is a source-available Codex skill that analyzes travel and everyday photographs as visual systems and converts their distinctive shapes, counts, positions, proportions, colors, directions, depth, and spatial rhythm into sparse editorial abstractions. It inventories observable evidence, maps retained source facts to minimal marks, and preserves relationships such as asymmetry, occlusion, count groups, negative space, horizons, focal coordinates, and directional lines. The skill generates a clean abstract panel with Codex's built-in image-generation tool, then uses a fail-closed finalizer to compose it beside the untouched original photograph and verify the result at the pixel level. The repository includes a bundled reference library, showcase outputs, installation and validation scripts, and requires Codex with skill support, image generation, Python with Pillow for deterministic composition and checks, and a photograph the user has permission to use.

Pictaria Server is a self-hosted photo-intelligence and curation server for Immich libraries, developed by Pictaria. It provides a private web dashboard for collection insights, optional AI enrichment, human photo review, and Smart Albums that synchronize saved Immich searches on a schedule. Its curation workflow groups photos from the same moment into similarity stacks and suggests which photos to keep using frame-worthiness scores; an optional AI referee can compare grouped photos, while human decisions take precedence. Enrichment classifies selected images with operator-hosted Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, or other OpenAI-compatible endpoints, as well as supported cloud providers. Smart Albums can apply saved searches and a Best of mode that ranks results using enrichment data, curation decisions, and photo scores. The server can run as a Docker container or directly on Node.

Compositor is a free, open-source image editor for macOS built around Photoshop-style compositing and post-processing workflows. It uses layers and folders with blend modes, opacity, masks, clipping masks, adjustment layers, non-destructive transforms, selections, painting and retouching tools, content-aware fill, filters, and multiple project tabs. It imports JPEG, PNG, HEIC, and TIFF files, and exports JPEG images; Photoshop-style keyboard shortcuts are supported throughout. The repository provides an Xcode project and documents macOS 26 and Xcode 26 requirements. It is licensed under the MIT License.