A question to users regarding saving image data:
When I added image clip support to CHS, I implemented it by saving image clips to stand alone standard image files (png typically), stored in a subdirectory organized by date.
I think there are some real advantages of this over storing raw image data in the standard clip database:
- Saving images in standard external files makes it easier to browse and view them with a 3rd party viewer, search/filter by date, size, etc.
- Keeps the database size more manageable.
- Is less prone to data corruption.
- Ability to store images in smaller compressed image file formats
But now that I'm adding support for storing larger blobs of binary data in the database, I'd be curious if folks would prefer to have image data stored in the normal clip database as well? Is there any point in adding support for this option?
I can't think of any (other than it would have been easier to implement from the start but that's moot at this point).