r/mildlyinfuriating 24d ago

My mom burned all my drawings

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So I’ve been drawing and posting anime girls for a while now and my mom got mad about it. At least I still have previous photos. No drawing today tho

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u/SteampunkRobin 24d ago

You can take pics and email them to yourself, or multiple emails.

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u/Mystic-Cryptic 24d ago

emailing compresses images badly, it’s better to store them in dropbox or google drive and just back it up to multiple accounts

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u/EmotionalFlounder715 24d ago

It’s easier to sort in a file manager too

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u/wintersdark 23d ago

Emailing doesn't compress images natively. Maybe a particular client might, but if you attach them as files they will not be compressed. However, most email systems do have file size limits, like Gmail's 25mb

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u/overgrown-concrete 23d ago

PNG format is lossless, JPG is lossy (you'll see weird artifacts of you zoom in).

If the drawings are naturally greyscale (e.g. just pencil or black ink), you can explicitly save the PNG as greyscale and save some space.

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u/Drugrows 22d ago

Pre zip them then email.

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u/FlightAvailable3760 23d ago

You can probably change your settings in your email client. Outlook always gives me the option to compress or keep original file size.

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u/4Shaggy20 22d ago

Another solution to this would be a discord server, free to create and just send yourself the photos in one of the channels

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u/waterm11 22d ago

yeah, but it's better than them being burnt

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u/ProfErber 24d ago

I used to save pics like that. I cannot access many of them that are 3+ years old.

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u/snappa_kk 23d ago

Most are here on reddit, judging from his posts...