Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Karl Brullov - The Last Day of Pompeii - Google Art Project.jpg

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•  Info created by Karl Briullov - uploaded by Dcoetzee - nominated by Dcoetzee. A 632 megapixel high-quality digitization of Karl Briullov's famous painting, The Last Day of Pompeii, from the Google Art Project. Depicts a panicked scene as a volcano erupts. Includes links to a set of 12 tiles for the full 9.3 gigapixel version of the image, providing an extremely high level of detail suitable for creating high-resolution detail images and large wall-sized prints. This version was scaled down to 30,000 pixels wide because that's the largest size Photoshop can handle (and it requires only a reasonable 2.5 GB of RAM to load). -- Dcoetzee (talk) 05:27, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support -- Superior to existing versions (File:Karl Briullov, The Last Day of Pompeii (1827–1833).jpg is overbrightened). Could use more info in its artwork template. Dcoetzee (talk) 05:27, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Very nice, but really hard to load! Indeed Photoshop will load it, but for those without it, I would recommend Irfanview. It automatically resizes it to 15000px, which is still really detailed. Programs I've tried that do not work on my computer with 6 GB RAM: Firefox, Toolserver, Windows Photo Viewer, GIMP (on Linux), EOG (on Linux). -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 06:57, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • FYI I've managed to load it in both GIMP on Windows and Windows Photo Viewer on my comp with 8 GB RAM, although GIMP took a few minutes - not sure why exactly the Linux version didn't work out. Firefox didn't work for me either, nor did MS Paint or JPEGcrop. Dcoetzee (talk) 07:16, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
•  Oppose IMO, we could feature "in block" all the pictures of the "Google art Project", and I don't see the interest for our project. "Commons" needs theses images, yes, but there is no need to feature a picture (taken by a bot) that at least half of us cannot upload on a "normal" browser... This version was scaled down is in contradiction with the guidelines, and it is an interesting paradox... Important for "Commons", agree. Featured Picture, disagree.--Jebulon (talk) 14:51, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'm confused - you're objecting that you can't load it but also objecting that it was scaled down? Also it couldn't possibly have not been scaled down, as JPEGs have a maximum resolution of 65536x65536, and in addition the full resolution version was uploaded separately as a tile set. Also very high-resolution bot uploads have been featured before, such as File:The Immaculate Conception, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, from Prado in Google Earth.jpg (12,988 × 23,867). Would it be perhaps helpful to upload a (further) scaled down version separately for people who are unable to open this one? Dcoetzee (talk) 17:40, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    • Can you upload maximum resolution version in TIFF or XCF ? --Sasha Krotov (talk) 13:14, 3 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
      • The maximum resolution TIFF would be about 18 gigabytes in size, and is far too large to upload or to manipulate using any existing software (the image would require about 37 GB of RAM to decode with 32 bpp, which most home PCs don't have). (Moreover the original TIFF is not lossless, but rather is assembled from Google's JPEG tiles, so JPEG artifacts are already present in it.) Right now I think Category:Tile set of The Last Day of Pompeii provides the best way to access the full resolution version. Dcoetzee (talk) 20:14, 3 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Yann (talk) 18:49, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Sasha Krotov (talk) 13:15, 3 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support. JukoFF (talk) 18:21, 3 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
•  Info Update: I've now updated all uses of the old image to use this new image across 38 projects, added other versions, translated the title into 30 languages based on image captions on various Wikipedias, linked the title to the article on the painting, and expanded the description and exhibition history based on en:The Last Day of Pompeii. I've also used the gigapixel tiles to create a new 10,466 × 20,584 version of the detail image File:Karl Briullov, The Last Day of Pompeii (1827–1833, detail of Yuliya Samoylova).jpg. Dcoetzee (talk) 21:11, 3 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support considering the effort from Dcoetzee's side to make this media more useful. -- Jkadavoor (Jee) (talk) 05:26, 4 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Epic images are epic. Regards, Peter Weis (talk) 10:17, 4 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Avenue (talk) 00:14, 5 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]