Photo Station
DSM Version
Photo Station
Features
- View photos in various display modes: Photo Wall, Timeline View, Map View, and Detail View
- Organize albums and set privacy controls to manage photos with other DSM accounts
- Share photos via social networking sites or show root folders to the pubic directly
- Display photos with Apple TV and Android TV
Specifications
- Supported file formats
- Image formats: BMP, JPEG, GIF, RAW (arw, srf, sr2, dcr, k25, kdc, cr2, crw, nef, mrw, ptx, pef, raf, raw, 3fr, erf, mef, mos, orf, rw2, dng, x3f), TIFF, PNG
- Video playback formats: 3G2, 3GP, ASF, AVI, DAT, DivX, FLV, M4V, MOV, MP4, MPEG, MPG, MTS, M2TS, M2T, QT, WMV, XviD, f4v
- Video formats for download only: RM, RMVB, VOB
- Flexible managing functions
- Personal Photo Station sites for each DSM user
- Drag-and-drop to move and copy files
- Pin albums to user-defined categories to create different portfolios
- Specify which file extensions (e.g. RAW, NEF) to hide/stop the thumbnail generation
- Share and show photos your way
- Directly access albums through shared links with privacy settings
- Connect and share photos to Facebook, Flickr, Plurk, Twitter, Qzone, or Sina Weibo
- Utilize collaborative functions in shared albums, including color labels, area highlight tools, and comments
- Create your personal blog: integrate with WordPress, Joomla, Drupal
- Adjust the speed and add transition effects during slideshows
- Search and find your photos
- Search for photos using keywords, time slots, or tags
- Create smart albums to filter photos and videos by specific search criteria
- Tags and personalized editing
- IPTC tag support
- Tag photos by facial recognition (Optional)
- Add watermarks to protect your copyright
- Edit the Geolocation of photos
- Mobile accessibility
- Browse your photos on iOS and Android devices
- TV apps available via Apple TV and Android TV
Limitations
- Privacy controls can only be set for top and second level albums
Affiliated Utility
Photo Station Uploader
Features
- A desktop application for batch-uploading photos from computers
- Thumbnail generation uses computer resources to reduce Synology NAS server loads
Limitations
- System requirements
- Windows 7 or above (excluding Windows 10 on ARM and Windows Server)
- macOS 10.13 or above (64-bit)
- Supports appointing multiple Synology NAS as upload destinations by creating and editing their profiles
- Supports uploading items by right-clicking on them in Windows File Explorer and Mac Finder
- Supports skipping files that have already been uploaded
- Supports renaming uploaded files by the creation date and time
- Supports keeping the original folder structure upon upload
DS photo (Mobile)
Features
- A mobile application for managing, browsing, and sharing Photo Station photos and videos on iOS and Android devices
Specifications
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System requirements
- iOS: 16.0 or above
- Android: 10 or above
- Supports browsing photos in List, Map, and Timeline modes
- Supports editing ratings, tags, and geolocations of photos
- Supports creating shared albums to share with the public
- Supports backing up photos saved on devices
- Supports downloading albums for offline viewing
- Supports playing slideshows
- Supports casting photos and videos via AirPlay (only available on iOS devices) and Chromecast
- Supports switching the video playback quality between auto, high, and standard quality
Limitations
- HEIC photos uploaded from devices running iOS 11 or above will be converted to JPEG format
DS photo (TV app)
Features
- Displays Photo Station photos and videos via TV boxes (Apple TV and Android TV)
Specifications
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System requirements
- iOS: 9.0 or above
- Android: 5.0 or above
- Supports browsing photos in Thumbnail and Timeline modes
- Supports browsing People, Geolocation, and General tag albums and created smart albums
- Supports displaying the details of photos and videos
- Supports playing slideshows
- Supports switching the video playback quality between high and standard quality
Limitations
- Videos converted to FLV format by DSM cannot be played back on Apple TV
- The supported video playback formats and available operations on Android TV depend on the specifications of the player in use