making sharing images easier - help please

[alcina]

I would like to put some of my images onto a cd-rom so I can take a disk with me when I visit family & friends, I know the basics like how to save to disk but...what I am a bit confused about are two things:

1) making them auto-run like a slide show. I have a slide show basic program, but it doesn't seem to be very good...any tips for a downloadable one and a good one to buy? Or can it be done in Photoshop/Premiere (video editing software) or something else I might already have?

2) exactly what size image I should be saving onto cd to show on a computer and/or tv screen. Resolution? Format (JPEG?)? Dimensions? Ideally I would like to save them high enough so if someone wants to print out a copy (like 4x6 or even 8x10) they can either at home or at a photo lab. Does this mean I have to save two different size files on the same disk?

Thanks for all your help.

 

[TedJ]

Hi,
Dazzle sells a package OnDVD that purports to do what you want however, I could not get it to actually write to the CD. When I did some research about the product I found a host of questions over the last several months indicating that lots of people had problems with it. One alternative was to buy the product of the company that produced the engine that Dazzle bought. That is a product called cdTV. It's $24 and is very easy to use.

http://www.tvcdsupport.com/

There's also Microsoft Movie Maker, Pictures to exe, Microsoft Plus and many others.

I use picturestoexe available at

http://www.wnsoft.com

 

[DJ69]

Ulead have some programs espacially for this
www.ulead.com

 

[Scuba Jim]

a good programme called LViewPro that can do slide shows. It has a "Resize to fit" button so if an image is too bug for the screen it will automatically downsize it to fit the screen.

It is also good for rezising images in general and changing formats. You can also do some image touching up with it, though not much.

 

[Dee]

I also use Pic2Exe. It's easy, fast and very affordable.