[cgu]

I'm trying to burn a cd of my photos so that I can take them to a store to have printed. I tried dragging the files of photos (originally stored in ipohot albums) from the finder into the data section of toast. In toast I can see thumbnails of the pictures I'm trying to copy. When I burn the cd it seems as if everything is going well. Toast shows that it is writing the disk and then does a disk verification. After the disk burning is complete I have tried to view the pictures on the disk and get error messages saying:

"the ailias can not be found because the original image can not be found. "
Could someone please clarify what this means and explain what I am doing worng.
On the burnt disc it shows that each picture size is 4KB and under Kind it lists each picture as Alias. On the burnt disc I can not see thumbnails.

I am new to Toast and to Macs.

thanks for your help.

Ps.I did not burn the disc directly from iphoto as I want it to work on both a pc and an mac.

Cheryl

[Zoom]

Two things to try.

(1) Try burning it from iPhoto. I believe the CD will work in a PC, but the file organization will be a drag to navigate (I believe it uses the year/month folder format that iPhoto uses for the regular library).

(2) Create an album with the pics you want on the CD. Then "export" that album to a folder and drop that folder into Toast. This is probably your best option, but the first one is quicker.

(3) One more thing. Try exporting as a web page, if it will let you export locally and not to .Mac. Then you can have a nice web page with thumbnails.

Try searching VersionTracker or MacUpdate for something that will turn an iPhoto album into a web page, too.

[cgu]

Thanks for the info. One more question though, If I export the photos to Toast then I'm asked to select a photo size. What size would you recommend?

[Zoom]

Originally posted by cgu:
Thanks for the info. One more question though, If I export the photos to Toast then I'm asked to select a photo size. What size would you recommend?

The export window has multiple tabs across the top - you want the "file export" option. And on that tab, select "format=original" and "size=full size". This will save the file in the original format, just as it came off the camera.

Now, if you really want to do a web page layout, then choose that tab. The thumbnail image size defaults (240x180) are good. The image sizes can be anything you want. Personally, I would want them to be full size, but that's entirely up to you. Figure out what the original format size is (you can do this using the previous option) and set the max width and height to be the same as the max value for your camera's output size. (That is, if the camera's native output is 1024x768, set both max values to 1024, in case some of your pics are rotated. Or set it to 2048 and forget it!) I suppose, though, if you really intend for this to be usable as a web page, the default 640x480 would be good. Play around with it and see what you get.

[cgu]

Thanks again for all your help Zoom. I will give it a try and am sure that it will work.
Have a great day.