Images from PhotoCD
Computers in Communication
Boston University College of Communication
Copyright © 1996 by Professor Jim Lengel
PhotoCD results in higher-quality images than from a scanner or video source,
but takes a little more time.
Use the best 35mm camera you can find, with high-resolution film and good
lenses. Take well-lit photographs of the objects or scenes you need. Take
your exposed roll(s) of film to the camera store and ask them to put the
images onto a Kodak PhotoCD. They can put up to 100 photos on a single CD.
This should cost about $1 per picture, and you'll have your CD in about
a week.
Make sure you have the Apple Photo Access extensions installed in your System
Folder. You can get these from your Apple dealer. Place the PhotoCD into
your CD-ROM drive, and wait while the computer creates thumbnails of your
images. Click on the Slide Show icon that shows in the Photo CD window.
You will see a low-resolution QuickTime movie of your pictures. Click the
arrows on the controller bar to browse through the images. To view an image
in high-resolution, select View from the menubar. A new window will open
with your image. (To change the size and resolution of the image, use the
menubar. PhotoCD stores each picture in five resolutions, ranging from thumbnail
to over 1000 pixels wide.) For most purposes, the 384x256 or 768x512 sizes
are what you want.
To save an image into your project folder, use the Save As item from the
File menu. Later, if you need to, you can adjust or edit these images with
another set of software tools.