What is Photo CD ??
CD Authoring Pte Ltd
imaging methods with modern digital technology. In essence, it is a
revolutionary way of digitally storing images Ñ photographs, slides and
negatives Ñ onto a CD-ROM (compact disc read-only memory). These images
can be displayed on your home television set or computer. With your
computer, you can even edit the images by using special software. You can
either use the Apple Macintosh or IBM PC or PC clone, and what you can do
with the images is really limited by only your imagination. Kodak Photo
CD opens up a totally new frontier in the visual arts. With digital
medium, you can now create realistic images that previously existed in
your mind. Now, with digital technology, every masterpiece you create can
be duplicated and stored faithfully as pure digital information.
Surrealism master, Salvador Dali would surely envy you for what this
modern technology could achieve if he is still alive!
The greatest advantage of digital images is that once the image is stored
in Photo CD it can last for at least 100 years. Because every bit of
information about a Photo CD image is stored as discrete numbers (digital
form), the image can be reproduced repeatedly without any loss in
quality. With Photo CD as the storage medium, you need not worries about
fading colours or contamination by fungus growth. Once the image is in
digital form, you can eliminate imperfections such as dust, colour
inconsistencies, contrast, brightness and sharpness. The digital image
can be transferred to other digital medium without any lost in quality.
That way you can have many duplicates because once the original images
are scanned into Photo CD each duplicate is an exact copy of the
original. The other advantage is photo archiving. You can create
libraries of photographs in Photo CD discs and then index, organise and
store them, using special programs like Kodak Shoebox or Aldus Fetch, in
a format easy for future reference and retrieval. With a touch of the
keyboard you can locate the particular Photo CD which contains the
photographs you want.
As the leading photographic film manufacturer, Kodak has combined its
expertise in photographic processes with colour technology to come up
with the PhotoYCC format by which images are permanently and digitally
transferred onto individual CDs. Kodak has set the standard for creating
look-up tables, compression and decompression algorithms and matrices
that make digital image storage an easy and efficient task. If you want
to be the modern artist photographer, convert your negative or slide into
Photo CD and add a new dimension to it!
Photo CD Ñ the new medium
Photo CD is not just a way of viewing images with your family members or
audience but a whole new way of creating and publishing photographs and
images as well. It is a very convenient and inexpensive way of getting
very high quality scans on to your desktop publishing system. There is a
tremendous potential in the use of Photo CD, and many software and
hardware vendors have already endorsed Photo CD. They include film
manufacturers like Fuji and Agfa; and software companies such as Adobe
Systems, Aldus, Storm Technology, Quark, Corel, Micrografx, Image-In and
Media Cybernetics. Electronics manufacturing giants such as Philips,
Pioneer, Sony and Toshiba are among the other major supporters of Kodak
Photo CD. Inevitably, this Photo CD format will become the standard to
archive, distribute and publish images. Every day around the world,
professional photographers, graphics designer, art directors, advertising
agencies, stock photo agencies, and desktop publishers are adopting this
simple and efficient format in their area of expertise.
The Many Possibilities
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- Instead of carrying numerous slides, colour prints or negatives
along to see their clients, photographers can put together their
portfolios on Photo CDs and show them straight away on their clientsÕ
computers or television sets. They can now do it with ease and style.
More colours can be seen on the RGB television projection compared to the
printed material.
- Publisher can now catalogue their collection of images
permanently on Photo CD and retrieve them when needed for reproduction in
their publications. The images stored in Photo CD can be accessed
directly from a CD-ROM player connected to a PC or a Mac. The page layout
with images can be printed using dye-sublimation or high-end inkjet
printers for presentation purposes or colours-separated using
imagesetters for printing purposes.
- Press agencies and stock photo agencies can distribute their
photographs easily in Photo CD or Pro Photo CD formats. Because Photo CD
images are duplicated digitally, they can duplicate the images without
lost in quality if they want more copies.
- Museums, art galleries and multi-national organizations can
catalogue their history, art pieces and imagery information in Catalogue
Photo CD. They can distribute them for viewing purposes or distribute
them through high speed ISDN networks.
- Married couples can archive their photographs in Portfolio Photo
CD and include music plus narration Ñ a wonderful presentation for family
get-togethers.
- Professionals such as architects and engineers can use Photo CD
for presentation to clients and archiving purposes.
Meng Foo
CD Authoring P/L
Michael Schuster
CD Authoring Pte Ltd <cdau...@merlion.singnet.com.sg> wrote:
>Kodak Photo CD is a new technology that combines traditional photographic
>imaging methods with modern digital technology. In essence, it is a
[blah, blah, blah ....]
[rest of blatant infomercial deleted]
You seem to keep re-posting this, but I can never find the posting
containing the question (What is Photo CD?) that netiquette would require
be present in order for you to post the "answer".
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Luc Saint-Elie
schu...@panix.com (Michael Schuster) wrote:
>but I can never find the posting
>containing the question (What is Photo CD?)
PhotoCD is two things:
1- a cheap way to scan pictures
2- A very cheap and very practical way to store the scanned pictures
You send your pictures to kodak, and kodak scans them, and write them on a
CD (exactly the same circular thing that the one you bought in a music
shop). On this CD Kodak can store up to 100 picture.
Each picture is scanned in several resolution.
PhotoCD was intended by crazy Kodak marketing fellows, like a way to see
picture on a TB, IMHO it's perfectly stupid.
There is a far better use of PhotoCD, it's for people interested by Digital
imaging, PhotoCD is the perfect place to start as you don't need to buy a
scanner, you only need a computer and a CD Rom reader.
Take care if you want to buy a CD Rom reader, to ensure that it is a
multisession model (XA compatible)
Hope this helps
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