Introducing Image Sharing
- 14 Jul 2016
- 2 min read
A week ago we introduced Blender Sync. Since then, hundreds of Blender users have started taking advantage of the new synchronization functionality.
Today we are introducing a new feature, exclusive for Blender Cloud subscribers: Image Sharing.
When you are working in Blender, you often want to share the content of your viewport, your latest render, a texture or simply take a screenshot of your current work session.
Now it's possible, with one click of a button!
How does it work
Download and unzip the Zip Bundle, then install and activate the Blender ID and Blender Cloud add-ons. If you installed a previous version of the add-ons they will be automatically upgraded. You need to restart Blender for the changes to take effect.
Image sharing
At this point you should see a new button appear in the image editor header. When you press it, the image currently visible will be uploaded to the Blender Cloud and you'll get a short link in your paste buffer.
You can paste that link in a chat or email and share it with anyone you want.
Screenshot sharing
You can user the Window menu (in the info window on top) to take a full-window screenshot, and the spacebar menu to take an area-only screenshot (search for share).
You are in control
The images and screenshots you upload on the cloud are stored in your Home (personal) project. You are free to delete them anytime.
Disclaimer
We cannot promise that your shared images will stay on Blender Cloud forever. It's a way to easily share between people, but not a permanent storage to show off your work. We will introduce limits on the maximum lifespan of a shared image. No worries, we're not Snapchat, so they won't disappear after a few seconds.
14 comments
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-uHQ3R8TGd3VUWjCUjdhovKrbJyK7Lcg/view?usp=sharing Hello! This is my sculpt
Little typo under Screenshot Sharing, should be 'use':
You can user the Window menu (in the info window on top) to take a full-window screenshot,
Is there any news on the user gallery (a la artstation) to check out other users' renders?
I like this feature very much! It would be great to have folders to organize images from different projects for example )))
@butusov.alexander: We glad you like the feature, and thanks for the feedback!
It worked very well !
Does the shared images stay private until we share the link somewhere ? Or is there somewhere a "list of shared images" ? It could be cool to have the ability to share in "public mode" and the Cloud could display all the publicly shared images of all the subscribers in a activity-stream-like display. It could maybe help subscribers to discover each other.
One other thing that could be convenient would be to rename the image when we're in the browser (just after clicking on the share button). And also have the ability to add a description to it.
One last thing. I think you should compress the image before uploading it. When you have a bad internet connection it takes very long minutes to upload a 10Mo 4k file. There's no progress bar and I think there's no point sharing it in highest quality PNG format. A JPG 70% should just be fine. Maybe it could be an option ?
Here's my first image shared with/to the Blender Cloud : https://cloud.blender.org/p/home/5787aca8c379cf322b8f40ed?t
Thanks for your work !
Nicolas
@Nicolas Fenix: The images are automatically shared (hence the button "Share on Blender Cloud"), so everybody with the link can get them.
The shared images are simply assets in your home project, albeit displayed a little differently by default. If you take away the "?t" from the URL you exit theatre mode. There you can click on the "Edit asset" button to change the name, description, etc.
Images are uploaded as-is. After all, we don't know beforehand what the user wants. Maybe you don't want to share your render at full resolution & quality, but someone else might. Renders are shared using the render settings, so if you set it to 70% JPEG it will use that.
hey there. I agree with felix. It would be great if the images uploaded could be sent to some kind of users gallery. It would create a kind of users community inside the blender cloud.
@Dr. Sybren: I have open this: https://developer.blender.org/T49080
I was investigating the error, and in the task you can see the reason and the solution to fix it. I have no access to fix it myself.
@Antonio Vazquez: please let us know at https://developer.blender.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/6/ so we can handle this properly.
@Dr. Sybren: I'm able to upload renders, but never screenshots (using windows 10).
I always get this error:
imb_savepng: Cannot open file for writing: 'C:\Users\Antonio\AppData\Local\Temp\tmppihqpmrt\Screenshot-2016-08-12-17:56:30.png' C:\Users\Antonio\AppData\Local\Temp\tmppihqpmrt\Screenshot-2016-08-12-17:56:30.png: Invalid argument Error: Could not write image: Invalid argument Unexpected exception caught.
This folder is authorized, so maybe I'm missing something in the configuration.
Cloud Addon version 1.4.2 / Blender ID: 1.2.0 / Blender 277.3 / Windows 10 64bits
@Dr. Sybren: ho ok perfect so ! :D
Cool stuff ! Could you move this big new button to the image menu, near the save as images ? It would be better if we avoid adding other buttons on the horizontal menu.
Keep up the good work ! :)
@Henri Hebeisen: Good idea. As a matter of fact, we liked it so much, I just released version 1.3.2 which changes just this. Go get the latest add-on!
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