subject: How to create digital Picture CD or Image CD easily [print this page] Make a photo CD is an idea way to save your digital collections. however, there are manypicture CD formats you can choose from. Your hundreds of photos can be burned to a CD-R as raw data format, you can make some slide show packages. or share on web etc.
Here we introduce a new way to make yourpicture slide show CD. Since Video CD 2.0 standard support high quality still image, why couldn't we store our pictures on Video CD, so we can share photos in the comfort of our living room with a big screen TV?
According to Video CD 2.0 standard, the image resolution shown on TV can be as high as 704x576. The quality is as good as DVD. and you can advance theimage slide one by one with the DVD player remote controller. Now, almost all home DVD players support Video CD 2.0 standard, so you can mail your photo slide show video CD to your friends and family. Background music can be added to the photo slide show which turns thepicture CD to an exciting photo TV show.
Besides watching the picture on TV, the video CD can also restore your original image files. The CD-R medium can safely store your value photo for a long long time, so you will never be afraid to lost your photos. You can even bring your Video CD to the mall and print them in the future. No quality will be lost.
What do you need to make aPicture CD?
To make a photo slide show CD, you need some hardwares: CD Burner, CD-R or CD-RW disc. and a very easy to use software: Photo DVD Maker. To view the output video CD, you need a DVD Player. You have all these hardwares, that's great!
Make your own photo CD as easy as 1,2,3...
Now, please follow the steps below to make your own exciting photo slide show CD.
Step One: Download Photo DVD Maker and install. You need to save the file to your local hard drive and run it. The installation is very simple and straight forward. Just follow the screen instruction and you can setup Photo DVD Maker in minutes. Now, click the program icon on the desktop to launch Photo DVD Maker. You will see the screen as below:
This is the editor screen of Photo DVD Maker, you can browse your photo by clicking the local folders on the left-top panel. And drag the photo to the right-bottom album panel. Click the "New" toolbar button to add new album and add photos to each album. By this way, you can group your photo into different album by topic,date or any way you like. In the target photo cd, there will be as many slide show as albums you added.
Double click the album icon on the left panel, you can set the interval time of each photo, add background music to the album.Double click the photo thumbnail on the right-bottom panel, you can add text narration to each photo.
When all these done, click the button "Disc Menu" on the main toolbar, the menu editor panel will be shown as below:
You can choose the theme of yourpicture CD from the menu templates on the right panel. Click the "Background Music" button to add background music to the menu. or you can change the background image of the menu by clicking "Background Image" button.
Then click "Preview" button on the main toolbar, the preview panel will be shown. The screen simulate the dvd player and you can preview yourimage cd slide show. When you are satisfied with your slide show, click the "Burn CD" button on the main toolbar. You will see the burning photo CD page:
Click the "Burn Now!" button to burn your photo slide show to CD-R or CD-RW disc. When the burning is finished, you can take the CD-R to your home DVD player to enjoy on big screen TV now!
How to create digital Picture CD or Image CD easily
