It did shrink, but by the same principle, I didn't want it to smoosh those first few paragraphs way too narrow, which would just have made them painful to read. So it was partly by design, even if I didn't make enough of a fuss over how [i]much[/i] shrinkage I wanted out of it. (You can adjust that by adding or subtracting from your invisible text line.)

In a perfect world there'd have been no gap between the table with two cells (paragraphs vs. image) and the table with just one cell (the bottom paragraphs spanning the whole width of the page). It'd look like an encyclopedia entry or something, perfectly margined. Only once you let images get too big, the paragraphs adjust to be longer as compensation for having less breadth, and you end up creating that gap anyway. If I'm making sense here.

It's not perfect yet (if perfection can even be achieved with these very rudimentary tools), but I've been practicing for a few months and I've gotten it to a presentable level, anyway, I think.

Basically, you [i]want[/i] a bit of shrinkage unless you're using your image manipulation programs and online image uploaders to re-size your images manually. Most of them at full size will be too big for your side-paragraphs to look natural and easy to read.