Now you can have your own personal photo editing web application

Every time while uploading your photos in the web app for editing like removing background, erasing objects, making your photos enhanced, restoring your old photos, we give our data to the owner who is hosting that application. Now-a-days most of us use AI platforms for editing and enhancing out photos and the companies that give us free to use their AI has a sinister mind set like using our data to train their LLMs.

If your are using a product for free then you are the product.

Now, to prevent from those data hungry companies who wants our data for free, we can host our photo editing tool locally where our photos are not missed use, all the hosted photos are in our own server.

And for this you don’t need a huge setup or anything, just an old laptop or Raspberry pi is enough.

If you are ready you can see the following steps for hosting your own photo editing tool:

Install Docker

If you haven’t install docker go to this page

Create a folder and name it “SnapOtter”

Step 3: Inside “SnapOtter” folder

sudo nano docker-compose.yml

I am using nano editor you can use any useful text editor

Docker Compose

services:
  SnapOtter:
    image: snapotter/snapotter:latest  # or ghcr.io/snapotter-hq/snapotter:latest
    ports:
      - "1349:1349"
    volumes:
      - SnapOtter-data:/data
    environment:
      - AUTH_ENABLED=true
      - DEFAULT_USERNAME=admin
      - DEFAULT_PASSWORD=admin
    restart: unless-stopped

volumes:
  SnapOtter-data:

Step 5: Run the docker compose

sudo docker compose up -d

Step 5: go to the web browser then type:

http://localhost:1349
http://0.0.0.0:1349 (replace that 0.0.0.0 with your server IP address)

Default Credentials:
username: admin

password: admin

For detail guide you can go to the official website of SnapOtter.