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waffffffle · Apr 28, 2003, 09:02 PM

I have a large number of photos in an iPhoto library. I have been exporting the albums to web pages (I have to do a ton of doctoring to make them look good) and posting them to a web site since January. We would like to make a cross-platform CD ROM to give to the graduating seniors to take home with them. I was wondering if there was a way to make the library prettier than just a bunch of files on a CD. What does the burn button in iPhoto actually burn? (My Mac with all the photos has no burner).

Any ideas for an easy way to do this? I wouldn't want to make an entire quicktime thing because I want people to be able to use the photos on the CD (print, email, etc). Thanks.

dettociao · Apr 28, 2003, 09:53 PM

As far as I know, the iPhoto burn button burns a Photo CD (viewable in many DVD players and that really old-school external Apple CD-Player).

But, if I were you... I would just burn the webpages as webpages. People are familiar with IE and such-- so they would probably be able to figure out how to email and print from there.

tooki · Apr 28, 2003, 10:23 PM

No, it's not a Photo CD. A Photo CD is a Kodak-specific format that's really funky and completely unavailable to anyone but Kodak to manufacture. Even Kodak has now largely abandoned in in lieu of its "Picture CD" which is just a data CD-ROM with JPEGs on it.

iPhoto just burns a data CD/DVD with what amounts to an iPhoto library on it (complete with the thumbnails, backed-up originals, etc). It will even show up in iPhoto as an album.

tooki

dettociao · Apr 28, 2003, 10:25 PM

Originally posted by tooki:
No, it's not a Photo CD. A Photo CD is a Kodak-specific format that's really funky and completely unavailable to anyone but Kodak to manufacture. Even Kodak has now largely abandoned in in lieu of its "Picture CD" which is just a data CD-ROM with JPEGs on it.

iPhoto just burns a data CD/DVD with what amounts to an iPhoto library on it (complete with the thumbnails, backed-up originals, etc). It will even show up in iPhoto as an album.

tooki

Oh. I stand corrected and astonished.

typoon · Apr 28, 2003, 10:27 PM

can't you save iPhoto Photo's as a slide show on CD? Or somehow export as a Quicktime movie of sometype?

waffffffle · Apr 29, 2003, 03:08 AM

Well I would like to make the cd viewable to windows users and I would like to not have to regenerate all those web galleries with the full sized pictures (instead of the 640x480 sized).

thePurpleGiant · Apr 29, 2003, 05:22 AM

yeah I'd go for the export to Quicktime movie option. It even includes the fades between slides. Then you can simply put that on the cd, or put it together more using keynote or powerpoint.

bluehz · Apr 29, 2003, 09:45 AM

Have a look at VCD Builder >http://homepage.mac.com/johan/> I am using it to make fantastic slideshows that play on home DVD players. May not play on EVERY home DVD - but it plays on one of mine that is really old and rarely plays anything.

zappy · Sep 6, 2003, 06:01 AM

An iPhoto burned archive-CD has Folders for every album but they only contain aliases, which do not work for me. When I look at the CD in the Finder (or even Windows-Explorer) the aliases do not resolve to the picture.

Anyone know the reason for this?