diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4c191d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+picturelicious/data/images
+picturelicious/data/thumbs
+picturelicious/cache
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