  We discuss the ultraviolet to near-IR galaxy counts from the deepest imaging
surveys, including the northern and southern Hubble Deep Fields. The
logarithmic slope of the galaxy number-magnitude relation is flatter than 0.4
in all seven UBVIJHK optical bandpasses at faint magnitudes, i.e. the light
from resolved galaxies has converged from the UV to the near-IR. Most of the
galaxy contribution to the extragalactic background light (EBL) comes from
relatively bright, low-redshift objects (50% at V_AB<21 and 90% at V_AB<25.5).
We find a lower limit to the surface brightness of the optical EBL of about 15
nW/m^2/sterad, comparable to the intensity of the far-IR background from COBE
data. Diffuse light, lost because of surface brightness selection effects, may
add substantially to the EBL.
