[Splitting from CAA-96]

Most of the cover art I upload has been processed in some way. Sometimes it's pretty minimal—rotate, crop so the image only includes the page. Or conversion from a device color profile to sRGB.

Other times, though, it's more extensive. Apply a descreen (possibly only to parts—e.g., only to the photo, not the text). Or fiddling with gamma/levels/curves to, e.g., make a scanned CD (with it's reflective background) look at all right.

Or when using digital photographs (which capture foil much better than a flatbed scanner), you don't typically have a color profile, and have to adjust by eye or by using gray cards.

All of these result in only the final, compressed JPEG being uploaded.

The archive goal would be much better achieved, though, if it were also possible to upload the multi-layer work file, which for me at least is likely XCF. This would allow someone else to improve it, or see what edits I performed.