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Question: You had an article in May 21 Tucson Citizens about doctoring graphics. Also Kim Komamdo had an article about burning photos to CDs and making the CD into slideshow mode. She has no E-Mail address!This is what I am trying to do with older slides and pictures that I have of trips and of our two children. My scanner is HP 5370c with Corel Print & Photo 5 software; I have a 960c DeskJet printer. I have Picture Publishing 2001 on my computer. I have an Olympus D550 digital camera, that has many adjustments, and with Camedia Master 4.0/4.1software package (which I can upgrade to Master Pro 4.0/4.1) for some additional features. I also have a CD RW burner with Adobe Acrobat 4 software for making CDs. That said, I’m in my 70s and have never had a computer class.Now I scan through my scanner>adjust to Jpeg or Bitmap>save as MY Pictures (on My Documents). From there, I can transfer them to Camedia Master software> and adjust the pictures (crop, etc.), and put them into separate albums. Both “MY Pictures” and Camedia have the Slide Show ability. My question is:How can I copy my pictures to a CD and maintain the slideshow. Do I need different software, if so what? Am I missing some link on what I have that will do the job? I’d like to be able to have a professional application when I finish, and I have hundreds of slides I'm working on. How many slides Jpeg can one put on a CD? Or Bitmap?I would appreciate any help that you could send me.Thank YouJune Payne
Answer: Ms. Payne, based on the information that you provided it appears that you may have several options. You could create a folder in “My Pictures” and place your slideshow into that folder. Next, when you want to create a CD, simply burn that folder onto the CDR. The Maximum number of pictures in a slideshow varies depending on the particular software that you are using and other variables. By making a folder you will be able to place multiply slideshows into one folder, which makes copying multiple slideshows easier.
Another option may be available to you if you have Microsoft PowerPoint. You could save the PowerPoint slideshow into a folder, and place them onto CDs in the same manner as described above. The advantages of using PowerPoint are that it can produce a good quality slideshow and is a commonly used slideshow format, in case you wanted to share the CD with others. I believe that PowerPoint will provide you with more than ample slides for your slideshow.
CDs’ are generally measured in MB or megabytes. The number of pictures that you are able to store on a CD is determined by the size of each individual file, whether it is a jpeg, bitmap, tif, or gif. The average CD size is about 783MB, so unless you are digitizing the Guggenheim, then you should be O.K.
I hope that this answers your question. As always, email me your questions and comments.