 Diane H. Inskeep |
How do I burn images to multiple cd's? Okay.....I have a cd burner, and burner software, but....if I save each of the images from an event, in TIFF format and JPG....the files are too large to fit on a cd.... Is there software that will burn to more than one cd, and give me an index of which image numbers are on which cd? I have been taking digital for 2 years, and film for lots of other years.....and I am still stuck on the image management part. My computer is so full, it is very slow...and the way I am burning images to cd's, seems to take forever...am I missing something? Thanks, Diane
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Wayne Attridge |
What are you taking pictures with that would give you files larger than 700 Meg each. An 8 by 10 photo scanned at 600 dpi gives a file about 100 Meg when saved as TIFF (jpeg is smaller because it is compressed). Leave a little more info about what you are doing.
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Diane H. Inskeep |
It is a collection of images I am trying to burn. If I take wedding photos, 200 to 400 per event, I put them into a folder on my desktop. I would like to save them to cd immediately, and the more I learn, it seems I should save these as they come from the camera (large jpg), but should convert them to tiff files. so that doubles my number of images, and the tiff files are very large. So when I go to burn the cds, I am never sure how many will fit. I thought there might be some type of software that will burn to multiple cd's and just prompt me to put in cd 2, cd 3, etc. Hope this makes sense... any suggestions appreciated. Diane
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Wayne Attridge |
I just left you a reply to the other question about resolution and TIFF or JPEG. To re-iterate, if you shoot as JPEG there is no value to TIFF conversion. JPEG files are already compressed and some of the raw photo data is lost forever, meaning conversion to TIFF will not restore the lost info. Large JPEG will have less loss than small JPEG and will return better results. If you can shoot them as TIFF files to begin with, though they are large files, they contain all the data the camera sees. If you cannot, shoot them at the highest quality and resolution that you are able to and save them on a CD as that. Photoshop will not turn a 72 dpi photo into a 300 dpi photo. That is just B.S. you see on TV cop shows. If I have only confused you further, please reply and I will try to clarify.
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Andy |
Most CD burning software allow you to selectively choose which files to burn to a single CD. If you have a directory of 200 files each with 60 meg of size and your CD can hold 700 meg of data, I will select 10 to 11 files to put on one CD and then put another 10 or 11 on another CD and so forth. You can select multiple files by holding the "Ctrl" key and click on the files. Does this help?
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Diane H. Inskeep |
Yes, it helps...but I was hoping someone would tell me of some great software program that make this fast...I have hundreds of photo images to burn to cd's....and still have not come up with a great indexing solution... So in the mean time, I burn cd's slowly.....when I would rather be taking photos!
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