Quoting Mark Roberts <[email protected]>:
John wrote:
If I remember correctly from my days running the mini-lab, the Kodak CD
that was available with your processed film & prints the images were
standard, low-compression JPEGs that would allow you to print a 4x6 at
300ppi (1200x1800 pixels).
You're thinking of the Kodak "Picture CD" that came several years
later. The original Kodak "Photo CD" (notice the subtly different
name) came out in the early 1990's and stored up to 100 photos, each
one in several resolutions. It was a proprietary image format and
failed in the same way that pretty much every proprietary image format
has ever since. When they went to the ""Picture CD" it was just
standard JPEG images at 1200 x 1800.
I'm pretty sure Photoshop will still read the old Photo CD format
images.
The most recent versions of Photoshop wont read them. Photoshop CS3
was (I think) the last version that supported the Photo CD format but
even then you had to install a plug in that wasn't enabled by default.
I used Photo CD when I first needed digital versions of some of my
slides (not having either a scanner or DSLR with slide copier). It
was a 'hit or miss' format with some excellent digital conversions and
some abysmal. I still have 6 or 7 Photo CD collections and keep CS3
on hand in case I need to read them.
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Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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