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From: ccy@po.CWRU.Edu (Cheung C. Yue)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: Re: Getting film developed onto Photo CD
Date: 9 Jan 1994 17:20:21 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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In a previous article, Loyd.Craft@fourstar.mi.org (Loyd Craft) says:

>Chris J. Holdorph writes:
>
> > What is the easiest way to get film put on a photocd?
>
>The EASIEST way would be to drop it off at any Kodak center that offers the
>service.   I see you're at MSU.   I know for a fact that you can stop in any of
>the Meijer photo centers in Lansing and have a PhotoCD made.
>
>They send it out, since they don't have the software to create the PhotoCD
>format, or the Philips CD writer to
>record a CDROM on-site.
>
>I think the price is about 70 - 80 cents per exposure.
>
>This includes your film developing, and a PhotoCD with a printed
>insert that has thumbnails of your pictures in it.
>
>Once you have your PhotoCD, you'll need software for your PC to access it.  I
>use Tempra Access by Mathematica, INC. This software comes on CDROM with 24
>sample PhotoCD images to
>play with.   The nice thing is the CDROM is less than $25.
>
>Tempra Access allows you to display, edit, and convert the PhotoCD format over
>to TIFF, TGA, PCX, WIN, AVC, GIF, PCC, HRS, PXL, IMG,
>VST, BMP, PTN, and EPS.  The only thing it WON'T do is save out
>a PhotoCD image.
>

I have not used Tempra Access, but another option is the Corel Professional
Photos CD-ROM.  It is an interesting product.  Come bundled with a couple of
Windows and Macintosh utilities (audio CD, similar functions as with Tempra,
etc.).  It has 100 Photo-CD Image Pac files but not on a Photo-CD disk.  In
other words, if you had an older CD-ROM drive without CD-ROM XA, which is 
compatible with ISO-9660, you can still play with Photo-CD files using 
Corel's CD.  Beware that not all programs which can deal with Photo-CD can
look for PCD format files on anything but a Photo-CD on a CD-ROM drive.
The Corel utilies are exceptions to this rule.  Another product which can 
handle PCD file outside of a Photo-CD on a CD-ROM XA drive is Halo Imager.

Usual disclaimers apply.

C Cho Yue
ccy@po.cwru.edu
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