uploading (raw) images here: okay?

[anarcat]

In a recent post, I went bold and just uploaded rendered JPEGs and RAW files directly in the post:

out of the box RAW rendering not up to JPEGs

So I mentioned this problem briefly in another thread, but I’ve often have trouble working on some pictures in Darktable, especially when compared to the original JPEG generated by the camera. Here’s an example. This is the JPEG as rendered by my Fujifilm X-T2: [DSCF1110] And this is the same picture, as rendered from the RAF file by Darktable, after only minimal modification (a null crop, basically): [DSCF1110_01] Notice how the bridge is completely different: the colors are just completel…

Is that okay? should i host large images somewhere else? I’m worried about the disk space usage here…

Obviously, I think it’s safe to assume I’m not supposed to host a whole photo gallery here, but I figured samples like this were okay.

Please let me know!

[paperdigits (Mica)]

Yes, you can upload your raw files here. We are lucky that a few generous community members generally cover our hosting costs. We’d rather have the thread intact going forward, without any missing/broken links, so that means upload away! Also amazon s3 is fairly cheap, so…

[anarcat]

… supporters such as you, if I understand correctly! so thank you very much for that… it makes things so much easier!

[paperdigits (Mica)]

I wasn’t referng to myself as I give pretty little… Though I guess a few bucks a month is still a good bit of data on S3.

[anarcat]

For what it’s worth, there’s an issue with large uploads right now, so you might want to be careful for non-RAW files.

[Friendly reminder] Limit JPEGs to maybe full HD resolution

We had multiple cases where people thought it was a good idea to upload full size jpegs for posts, which gives us 8-23MB! jpeg files. I think for most discussions it is more than enough to limit our self to 1920x1080 or smaller resolution. This does not apply to raw files of course. Also it might also help to not use the “upload file” function for image files. just drag’n’drop them into the post. Thank you in advance

RAW files are okay because they are not previewed, from what I understand.

[patdavid]

Well, we still don’t mind about large uploads. The bigger issue there is that some of the embedded versions of the images aren’t getting thumbnails generated properly, so the images are full-resolution directly in the post (which is undesirable). We’re still looking at it.