diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 5ee325b..e69de29 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-.n5 filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
-.tif filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
-.n5/** filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
-examples/data filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
-examples/data/** filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 1a22ba1..145e1a4 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ cython_debug/
 examples/data/test/
 examples/data/deformed_data/
 examples/data/test_data/
-data
+/data
 
 # huge data
 *.tif
@@ -185,6 +185,9 @@ data
 *.png
 *.ome.zarr/
 
+# allow example tif files
+!examples/data/platy1_muscles_stardist_fixed.tif
+
 .DS_Store
 
 # Snakemake logs
diff --git a/examples/data/platy1_muscles_stardist_fixed.tif b/examples/data/platy1_muscles_stardist_fixed.tif
index 02e6673..c0ed7e2 100644
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diff --git a/examples/data/rotation_matrix.txt b/examples/data/rotation_matrix.txt
index 207754e..974738f 100644
--- a/examples/data/rotation_matrix.txt
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diff --git a/examples/data/transformation_matrix.txt b/examples/data/transformation_matrix.txt
index a4ae13a..ad86ad1 100644
--- a/examples/data/transformation_matrix.txt
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