Picture editors used to circle the chosen frames on a contact sheet with a red grease pencil. Today the client's circles arrive as a message: "Keep 12 and 14, drop the dog ones, and can you brighten the one with the Welcome sign?" Grease Pencil is a Skill for UGREEN AI NAS that turns that feedback into marks on the right photos in the proofing album.
Why it matters. Clients rarely send file numbers. A proofing guide puts it simply: "Vague references waste time." Its examples are "the third photo from yesterday" and "I like the one where she's smiling". And a "just brighten this one a bit" request can take 20 to 30 minutes of careful work, according to Fstoppers. The photographer rereads the message, scrolls the set and hopes nothing was missed.
How it works. You paste the message, or give the path of a chat screenshot (ug-photo vision-ocr) or a voice note (ug-knowledge audio-transcription). The Skill splits the feedback into one request per row, quoting the client's words. You confirm the rows and the proofing album (ug-photo albums). Each request is then searched inside that album only, with ug-photo search-picture, by frame number, visible text, a named person or pet, or a recognised object (object-albums). After approval, ug-filemgr tag-add and tag-add-file mark the photos client-keep, client-drop or client-revise. ug-knowledge save-text then saves a revision sheet with the open requests listed first.
What it never does. It never guesses "the third one" or "where she's laughing". Those references stay open for you, with the client's words. It doesn't search outside the album, tag more than it can list, edit photos or send anything to the client. Every write waits for approval.
What's checked. UGREEN's official static checker reports 0 errors and 0 warnings. A dry run on a synthetic 148-photo album, with a local stand-in for the album search, passed all 12 checks after fixing one rule it caught: "the dog ones" means several photos, not a pick of one. Nothing has run on a NAS yet. The object-filter format, transcription and OCR quality, and real approvals are planned tests for the finalist day.
Disclosures
Third-party components: none (the package is Markdown only, with no external services). AI tools: Claude Code and OpenAI Codex CLI (research, drafting, review).
Built With
- ug-filemgr
- ug-knowledge
- ug-photo
