diff --git a/mediarepo-daemon/mediarepo-core/src/image_processing.rs b/mediarepo-daemon/mediarepo-core/src/image_processing.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/mediarepo-daemon/mediarepo-database/Cargo.lock b/mediarepo-daemon/mediarepo-database/Cargo.lock
index c1dc768..cbd083e 100644
--- a/mediarepo-daemon/mediarepo-database/Cargo.lock
+++ b/mediarepo-daemon/mediarepo-database/Cargo.lock
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+ "scoped_threadpool",
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+ "image",
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