I hope I have this right

[theantiquetiger]

Hi Tiger, no editing just crop. Lool, not very good at editing :-) Is it the downsizing of the image for the site? I noticed on the smaller version, that the blur or DOF seems to cut the image in half. depth wise. If you see what I mean?
Pas

It maybe the compression of the site? Is the dark halo in the original image? What size was the image when you uploaded it? It needs to be less than 275kb (and trust me, it affects the image a lot)

[Pas]

Thanks Tiger,
I appreciate the time your taking. Right, the size of the image on upload was, 79.9kb and dimensions are 603x400. and the dark halo isn't on the original.

[theantiquetiger]

Thanks Tiger,
I appreciate the time your taking. Right, the size of the image on upload was, 79.9kb and dimensions are 603x400. and the dark halo isn't on the original.

The original before upload is 79.9?

[Pas]

Oh gosh no Tiger, sorry. The original file is 5.25gb

[theantiquetiger]

Oh gosh no Tiger, sorry. The original file is 5.25gb

I'm guessing you mean 5.25mb (gb if HUGE!!!!). If you have Gimp, resize the original in percentages, and reduce the size to about 15% of the original, and save as a different name so you don't lose the original. When I resize, I just save as "original_name" and add "small" to the end of the name.

[Mad Aussie]

That dark halo is perplexing, and seeing as it's not on the original I can't offer too much to it's existence. Unless it's to do with the cropping somehow or, more likely perhaps, the sharpening process.

Other than that it's a very good, sharp photo and I really can't offer much in the way of critique.

[Iguanasan]

We should check to see if the halo was caused by the board software compressing the image. In order to post an image to photography.ca you should resize it to ensure it is less than 1025 pixels (on the longest side) and less than 275KB. If it's larger than either of those dimensions the software on the board will resize it and the results are generally less than stellar.

[Pas]

Lool, yes Tiger, mb!
I used elements 9 to downsize the image, it has a option to resize for the web. So, what I tried was, whatever the longest side of the image is, I typed in approx 600 and short side of image 400. I did this to insure it would fit here and not exceed the upload limit. I think whatever the issue is, I think its something I am doing.

[Pas]

Thank you Mad Aussie

[Pas]

Thank you Iguanasan, I will try those dimensions when posting :-)