Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Io (moon)

 
Original - Picture of the moon Io taken in 1999 by the Galileo spacecraft
 
Version 2 - Added more background
Reason
high quality, nice pic
Articles this image appears in
Io (moon) and several other article related to moons
Creator
NASA
That image is a lot smaller. The crop can be easily fixed, but the edges not so much. Diego_pmc Talk 11:12, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The link is the page of the image where you will find the full resolution picture too at http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA02308.jpg. Nergaal (talk) 11:53, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I tried to upload one with about 10% more width, but I can't get it to commons. Could somebody do it? Also, I haven't done this before, so I don't know what exactly you mean by softening. Nergaal (talk) 04:26, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - Honestly I've considered nominating this pic before - but it wasn't really eye-grabbing to me, and the detail really isn't that great. —Ceran (talk) 22:24, 19 November 2008 (UTC)'[reply]
  • Question - Why did adding a bit of black margin increase the file size from 771 KB to 3.86 MB!?
    • Probably the result of saving at jpg Quality 12 in Photoshop (or equivalent elsewhere). Unfortunately fewer and fewer people seem to understand the control of image filesize vs quality for web use, so just whack it on the highest settings they can find. Even saving at 11 would have probably only marginally increased the filesize, but would have shown no noticeable difference in quality. --jjron (talk) 07:58, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 03:44, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]