Following on to Brendans talk on file types and resizing images for the web, I thought that you might like to see an example of what can be done.

This image was my entry in The Assignment Challenge "From Ground Level". It is taken in the Fens near Peterborough in Cambridgeshire.

(1) Original image
(2) Image Size Box on original image
(3) Cropped and resized image
(4) Image size Box for the cropped image

Note that the file was resized with a photoshop action called the "TLR Resizer" after being cropped which brings your file size back up after you crop an image without doing anything nasty to it.

By unticking the constrain image box, the shape was changed to 16:10 also.

The original image was 4:3

This made the mushrooms seem taller than they actually were.

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Sorry, just saw that in your post.
Is this action script doing something funky then to cause these blocky lines ?

Regards
James

2 things, 1) I love your original image with the "Mudhut" backdrop in the shape of a mushroom, I really like that image, well done.
& 2) Should we start a thread of all entries for last Monday with details of "from ground level" or above, would be an interesting post, nice shootin' Eamonn & very informative post.

Thanks Terry.

I was trying to get the whole lot sharp but just could not get sufficent depth of field.

I have learned since that I should have taken two photos with different focus points.

It was the mushroom shape of the hut that attracted me in the first place.