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[scannergirl6006]

What about KODAK PHOTO CD. I used to be able to bring those pictures into Photoshop via TWAIN ( I believe) which recognized the proprietary manner in which KODAK digitized film pictures and burned to their GOLD PHOTO CD.
Please note this is PHOTO CD, not the dumbed down PICTURE CD that Kodak came out with later.

I have several PHOTO CD's and Unless I am missing something, my Photoshop CS5 does not see the data. I want to be able to "Read" that data at the very high resolutions that Kodak's PHOTO CD offered, and not just a dumbed down jpg thumbnail.

Please help!

[jaynelson]

Scannergirl6006: PhotoCD was a terrific solution at a time when storage space was expensive and difficult to manage. Now, however, I think we can safely consider it a "legacy" file format. I would suggest that you convert all your Photo CD images to a standard such as TIFF. I did a Google search for "Photo CD to TIFF" and came up with several conversion options, such as the $79 pcdMagic and a free Windows utility "Easy2Convert PCD to TIFF". The $40 GraphicConverter also opens and converts Photo CD files. I don't know anything about the first two, but GraphicConverter has been a workhorse utility for many many years.

[Dennistrator]

What a TWAIN wreck.

[FrankCDN]

For those with a Mac that can run Snow Leopard, dedicate a partition if you have enough disk space instead of a whole computer. With my Mac Pro, I have a small 160 GB drive with 10.6.8 installed and use it solely to scan.
Shame on scanner makers for making perfectly good scanner obsolete with a simple outdated driver.

[whitedog]

Thanks for the rundown on scanning with Photoshop CS6. It cleared up several issues for me.

Besides the move to ImageKit drivers, on the Mac, Photoshop CS6 no longer populates the Plug-Ins folder with its default plug-ins. These are now included within the body of the app itself. The folder now provides a home for third-party (and extra Photoshop) plugins. Further complicating the issue is the fact that, on the Mac at least, other application functions, particularly user settings, have been moved to the ~/Library/Applications Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CS6 folder. Other functions are managed in the Library/Applications Support/Adobe folder, including the Camera Raw plugin. Fortunately, we no longer have to update Camera Raw manually.

[TimmySlapstick]

Is that really the packaging for Photoshop CS6? I have not seen it before. Wow, that really sucks.
I really miss whoever was doing Adobe's design for the CS2 suite. The packaging was colorful and well designed. The app icons were beautiful. The tabs in the interfaces were even better looking.

[scannergirl6006]

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Scannergirl6006: PhotoCD was a terrific solution at a time when storage space was expensive and difficult to manage. Now, however, I think we can safely consider it a "legacy" file format. I would suggest that you convert all your Photo CD images to a standard such as TIFF. I did a Google search for "Photo CD to TIFF" and came up with several conversion options, such as the $79 pcdMagic and a free Windows utility "Easy2Convert PCD to TIFF". The $40 GraphicConverter also opens and converts Photo CD files. I don't know anything about the first two, but GraphicConverter has been a workhorse utility for many many years.

[scannergirl6006]

Thank you for the reply. I will look into these options.
Do you know if the photo CD to tiff will allow me the highest resolutions, something that PHOTO CD allowed.
Also will the software work with windows 7 . I have a laptop with windows 7, and an iMac (one year old)
Again, thank you thank you very much

[Stewsburntmonkey]

 scannergirl6006, on 09 October 2012 - 12:35 PM, said:

Thank you for the reply. I will look into these options.
Do you know if the photo CD to tiff will allow me the highest resolutions, something that PHOTO CD allowed.
Also will the software work with windows 7 . I have a laptop with windows 7, and an iMac (one year old)
Again, thank you thank you very much

The TIFF should be lossless, meaning it will keep whatever resolution and fidelity that the original Photo CD image had.

[fredlave]

VueScan is the way to go. Not only is it inexpensive (compared to Silverfast for instance) but the user can d'load it and try it before purchase. It supports a huge number of scanners, including negative scanners.

[MacworldMember]

Photoshop CS6 is very robust and it rocks! Another way to scan Photoshop CS6 is with Markzware FlightCheck. Thanks for all the tips for scanning Photoshop CS6, Jay.