Create Photo CDs

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Sep 01, 2006, Mike Reinehr wrote:
>On Thursday 31 August 2006 21:37, Kurt Wall wrote:
>> Hi, list,
>>
>> I'd like to do is create a CD-ROM (or two or three or ...) that works like
>> a photo CD, by which I mean a CD-ROM that I can slap into a drive and
>> view as a slide show.
>>
>> Anyone done that with Linux tools? If so, care to share your approach?
>> So far, the best I've been able to come up with short of serious coding
>> is a PHP-based gallery that requires a Web browswer or the PHP interpreter.
...
>If you're using KDE there is a program called KView which allows you to view 
>photos in a slide show fashion. In this case you just have to gather all of 
>your photos into one directory and burn a CD. When you start KView you open 
>the directory and either can then page through the photos manually or 
>automatically. The only thing I haven't yet found is a way to vary the hold 
>time when paging automatically.

There's an article on digigital photography in this Month's Linux Journal
in which they describe digiKam on KDE and F-Spot with gnome.  The article
also goes into scanning with kooka and xsane front ends.

Personally I generally use iPhoto on my Mac Mini :-).

Bill
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