even cropping out an eyeball i still have to throw out most of the pixels to post



;)

same deal...



later,

shrimp repost after furthur cropping...



maybe i should just scan the pics smaller to start with;)

one more cutout...



is this a french angel or something else anyway?

Pretty sure that's a juvenile or intermediate French Angelfish.

Sponge...good pictures...

so i lied...

one more trunk..



;)

Great work again bob! Keep the pics coming!

I love the little kissing trunk fish!!! Keep em coming!!!

yes yes more please :-)

well, don't remember it being quite that pretty but that's what pics are for - to get what you didn't...

just amazing the colors a strobe will reveal;)

another, smaller but better example from angel city...

Bob, the second pic is actually a sharpenose puffer, a trunkfish is flat on its belly. The other one is a trunkfish.
Great pics

You maight go up a few posts to "How to size pics". Here is the outcome in a nutshell IF you are using Photoshop or PS Elements. It worked for me!

Ok. Open pic in Adobe. Select Image Menu, Resize, image size. Change height OR width to 10 inches. Hit return. Open File menu and select Save for web. Adjust slider to 35KB. Save as whatever. Look in folder you saved file in and hit properties. File will be about 36KB and 40KB on disk. Here is the sea goddess at 11" instead of 31" at 34k in adobe, 36KB

thanks ron - don't think i would have figured that out on my own...

i scan my film negatives and alternatively could just scan them in at the allowable size..

thanks again and you got some great pics!

come to think of it...you can use elements to generate constrained jpegs for an entire folder of oversized pics - do 'em batch;) - pick generate web thumbnails from the main menu and be sure to sufficiently constrain the pics by making the max dimension like 600-800 pixels (whatever it takes...when the job is done you have a folder of constrained images and a bunch of html - you can get rid of the html and use the image folder...