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low res camera app? (self.techsupport)

submitted 1 month ago by Imgonnatrythis to c/[email protected]

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It's always eaten at me when I see someone taking a photo of a parking lot sign or some trivial piece of information, saving megabytes of data for a couple of bytes worth of data. However, I find myself guilty of doing this sort of nonsense sometimes as well now. I don't want these photos getting synced to my photo cloud, and I'd prefer it if they were much smaller, lower res photos anyway. Is there a decent app I can open that I can quickly take default low res photos with and keep them separately stored locally without integrating to my photo gallery? Preferably FOSS of course.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can change the resolution in open camera, but the lowest it'll go for me is 1080p.

[–] Imgonnatrythis 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This is wonderful thank you! I'm taking 14kb images with plenty of resolution for reading basic stuff. I'm able to save photos wherever I want but if I try to view them through the app it seems to rely on the phone gallery app or Google photos. I don't want these pics going to either. I'm guessing I need to also find a separate dedice photo viewing app.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks like you can add your own folders in Fossify gallery, and you can exclude folders as well. So you could probably include the folder you want, and then exclude DCIM, as that folder seems to be included by default.

[–] Imgonnatrythis 1 points 1 month ago

Awesome! Thanks so much. I think I got this figured out. These are great apps. The hard part was getting Google photos to ignore these pictures, it's very aggressive about scraping and there is no option to exclude folder. I downloaded fossify file manager and created a. Nomedia file in my opencam folder and that seemed to work though!