Will Photshop do the conversion?
Any more experienced members/graphic designers can correct me if I'm wrong.
If I understand what you are saying:
To take photos and have them be read by your DVD player, I believe all that you would have to do is take TIFF or JPEG (.tif or .jpg .jpeg) format pics, and burn them to a CD with your CD burner, and then just pop the CD into your DVD player. Most DVD players will read photo-CDs/CDs that have these types of pictures on them, especially if it's a newer player. You can check out the specs of your DVD player to see if it says anything about viewing photo CDs.
If you have a DVD burner, I can only guess 'cause I don't have one yet, but I assume that the process would be just the same, only with a DVD and not a CD.
As for Photoshop, you could use it to open up photos, especially if they are in another format, and then "Save As..." to the JPEG file format, which could then be burned on to the CD as above.
Of course, Photoshop should also be used to "fix" your photos before you make a CD. It is my understanding that each time a JPEG format photo is RE-SAVED (ie.opened, perhaps tweaked/fixed up, and then saved again with the changes (or just re-saved)), you will get some loss of the picture quality. It may not be noticeable on a screen, but it may become noticeable in print. So if you're fixing the pic, do all your fixes at once, then save. And if the pic isn't a JPEG to begin with, only save it as a JPEG as the last thing you do.
Hope this helps.
-Mike
Thanks a lot. I'll give it a try.
Take care,
Ron
Hi,
My DVD reads jpeg digital photos, however, it scans in one line at a time and takes 30 sec. to a min. to load each photo. There's got to be better way?
Take care,
Ron
You may need to reduce the size (in terms of file size) of the images before burning them to the CD. If, let's say, they were taken with a 5 MP digital camera, and all you want to do is view them on TV, as in a doing home slide shows the digital way, then you should only need a screen resolution of your pics. My wife says that 72 dpi should be fine for screen. Remember to "Save as" your images, especially if you don't have any other copy, because printing out a 72 dpi image is truly bad. That should cut the image size to less than 100k, and hopefully your DVD player will load the images faster.
In our version of Photoshop (4.0 or so), go to Change image size, change the Resolution to 72 dpi, but make sure you have the "Resample Image" box checked.
Let me know if this helps.
I have only once thrown in a Kodak image CD into my own DVD player, direct from the photo development lab, and the images opened at a snail's pace too. Probably an image size thing, but if anyone else has ideas, please chime in...
-Mike
For images displayed on a TV what is important is the pixel count, not the dots per inch. The standard DVD size for a still image on on a normal TV (not HDTV) iis 720h x 480v pixels, but to add extra excitement, the pixel aspect ratio is 0.9. You can safely ignore this and just make the horizontal width 720 pixels. The DVD player will scale the image to fit.
Is there some reason you would not use the slide show capability of iDVD? Does everything for you, including making menus. Note that there is a limit of 99 slides in a DVD slide show because there is a limit of 99 chapters in a DVD movie. You can put lots of slide shows on a single DVD and you can also store the original images (as data files) to be able to make high quality prints from them. Check out http://www.apple.com/ca/ilife/idvd/
Well, for me, yes.
I'm still a Mac OS 9 luddite.
Well, I'm trying not to be - looking for that G4 tower.
And hopefully an iMac G5 (when it's speed-bumped) for my wife, and includes Tiger.
Thanks for the info, Neil!
-Mike