Create Photo CDs

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006, Mike Reinehr wrote:
>On Saturday 02 September 2006 19:28, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> 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
>
>You must have October already, which I haven't received yet. (I see F-Spot 
>mentioned in the coming attractions column in the September issue.) I'll be 
>sure to read it!

My copy came the middle of last week, perhaps quickly as we're about 15
miles from SSC in Ballard.

>I've read the the  MAC multi-media software is _really_ good but haven't had 
>the opportunity to try it.

I think the best features of the Mac multi-media software is (a) it's Good
Enough(tm) for the average user, (b) is very easy to use, and (c) all the
iLife programs, iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and Garage Band, are
seamlessly integrated.  There are more advanced programs for professional
users, Aperture for photos, Final Cut Pro for video, etc., and these are
supposed to be well integrated, but I can's say for sure as I've never used
them myself.

The only thing I've ever done with the video programs, iMovie and iDVD was
to play with them enough to prove to myself that I could make a DVD,
playable on my regular DVD player.  I took some old photos of my Zink
Formula Ford at Road Atlanta from iPhoto into iMovie, added a bit of music
from iTunes (``Truckin' by the Grateful Dead), and used iDVD to make a
short DVD.  It certainly won't replace the History Channel, but I was able
to do it easily.

For me, the easiest way to get photos from digital cameras into computers
is via USB flash readers.  It doesn't require anything to interface with
the camera, is inexpensive, anybody can do it, and it works.

Bill
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