Re: [RML] Rainbowfishes CD

Adrian Tappin (atappin at ecn.net.au)
Tue, 27 Jun 2000 19:01:44 +1000

At 22:16 26/06/00 -0400, Franc wrote:
>Hello Adrian,
>
>You did an excellent job with the Rainbowfish CD. I am very
>impressed with the amount of information and the quality of
>the pictures on it. Great job.
>
>However, Darrell did point out one point that I would like
>to
>see improved (perhaps on the upgrade you are planning to
>release in say... six months). I would like to see the
>larger
>size of the pictures. I think CD could easily handle larger
>.jpg files. The original photography was likely done with
>35mm SLR cameras so the files must have been much
>larger before you have reduce them to the current size.

Yes, I agree - I have already started to look at the size of the images
particularly in the areas that show many of the different coloured
varieties. I can expand those images to fill the full frame. The others are
restricted to the size of the subject frame however.

I did have a 'zoom' function in the early stages of development, but it
didn't work for all the images because some were high resolution while
others were not. I couldn't get the same effect for all the images so I
decided not to have the zoom function at all.

However, I would appreciate any feedback on any errors (spelling or
otherwise) or any suggestions for improvement. I know there are some
spelling mistakes and an error in one of the links. It doesn't matter how
many time you go over it, and despite proofreading and testing by a number
of people, its easy to miss them.

At a later date we might be able to offer a free upgrade to anyone offering
good suggestions or reporting errors - but please post to me personally :-)

Adrian.

atappin at ecn.net.au