There's an interesting site that covers (almost) everything to do with the Photo CD format. It includes a patch for the PCDLIB32.DLL file that allegedly causes a 'lost highlights' problem when using Photoshop and some other image editors to load the Photo CD format.
http://www.tedfelix.com/PhotoCD/index.html It seems that all editors and viewers are not created equal when loading PCD files. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 23:48:58 -0500, "Ken Waller" <[email protected]> said: > Mark , I'm using CS2 and can open Photo CD images (slides) over 11 years > old. The open PhotoCD dialog box lets me choose - 'Pixel size' from 64X96 > up > to 2048X3072, Film profiles (I use 4050 E-6 V3.4), Resolutions from 72 > PPI > up to 550 PPI, RGB in 8 or 16 bits/channel & LAB in 8 or 16 bits/channel. > > There was also a less popular image CD (called something like 'Picture > CD')available from Kodak which cost less & had less flexibility - maybe > that > what's you have? > > My understanding is that Kodak had hoped their CD format would catch on > in a > big way, they had offered a CD player that would compete with slide > projectors, never did get the popularity they hoped for. > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Erickson" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: OT: converting Kodak PhotoCD format to, e.g., TIFF? > > > > > > Godfrey, Ken, > > > > Thanks for the tips. PhotoCD is one of those formats that was meant to be > > "standard", but not really "open". I think that Kodak charged pretty > > hefty > > licensing fees to hardware and software makers to use it. > > > > Funny thing is, I have no real idea whether the original data is 8 bit or > > 12 > > or 16 or something else (probably 8?), what kind of profiles are embedded > > in > > it, etc. > > > > Photoshop does open it just fine, and the results look quite good. > > > > Looking back, it's only been 10 years, and I have an almost "orphan" > > format > > to deal with. Gives one a bit of pause--might Adobe's DNG format be an > > orphan in 2019? > > > > --Mark > > > -- -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - mmm... Fastmail... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
