Apple 5200CD, 5300CD manual Obtaining Photo CDs, Before viewing the contents of a Photo CD

Obtaining Photo CDs

Your own photographs can be recorded as Photo CD images on a Photo CD. To obtain a Photo CD of your own photographs, take your standard 35-mm film to a photofinisher who has a Photo CD system. The photofinisher develops your film, digitizes the photographs, and gives you back a Photo CD containing your Photo CD images. A single Photo CD can hold approximately a hundred images.

If your Photo CD isn’t full, you can take it back to the photofinisher and have more photos added until the disc is full. Such discs are called multisession discs because they contain images added after the first session. Your CD-ROM drive can read both single-session and multisession Photo CDs. (Other CD-ROM drives can read only single-session discs and are unable to read the additional images placed on a multisession disc.)

Before viewing the contents of a Photo CD

Normally, you open Photo CD images with the SimpleText program that came with your computer. If you wish, you can use a graphics or image-editing program instead of SimpleText to open images. For instructions, see the “Working with Programs” topic of Macintosh Guide, available in the Guide (h) menu. If you use SimpleText to view high-resolution images, you should increase the amount of memory that SimpleText uses. For more information on memory, see the “Memory” topic of Macintosh Guide, available in the Guide (h) menu.

A note about resolution

When a Photo CD image is created, it’s recorded at five different levels of resolution. The higher the resolution, the more information is recorded about the image, and the sharper the image appears when displayed or printed at larger sizes. However, high-resolution images take up a lot of memory—up to 18 MB of data for one photograph—which affects file size, as well as the amount of time it takes to display or print an image.

It’s best to work with a resolution appropriate for your monitor or printer. Some monitors and printers cannot display or print very high-resolution images.

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