This blog is pretty much my day job now and I work to bring you my own take on photography, both tutorials and tips, as well as inspiration from my own art. This led me to what will be the obvious conclusion for any long term mac users. Neither does Lightroom, or Capture One, or any other modern photo workflow application. iPhoto also used to support PhotoCD, but Apple Photos doesn’t. Photoshop used to have direct support, but that is long gone. Using these disks today is a bit of a challenge. I later bought my own film scanner (which I still have today) but for a while this was how I got film into my computer. I had only ever gotten a few of these done, as they were expensive at the time, but they were the only affordable way to scan film. ![]() It was also designed to work with the long defunct CD-i players - which were a precursor to DVD. PhotoCD also recorded some super-white information, and so you had a limited ability to recover overexposed information in the file, like a primitive version of RAW files that we have today. They were using superior scanners, and they were individually calibrated. The scans were much better than what you get with a lab scan today. Now, this might not sound too dissimilar from the way you can get lab scans today, but there was a couple of big differences.įor a start, the quality was good. You sent them to a lab, and they would send you back a special CD with the photos on it in the. ![]() After a little digging, I was able to get them to open! Here’s the full story…įor those who haven’t heard of it before, PhotoCD was Kodak’s first attempt to bridge the digital divide in the 90s by offering a way to easily get your negatives (or positives) scanned. The PhotoCD format is long since dead, so I wondered if I would have any chance at finding a way to use the files. One of which was a collection of PhotoCDs from 1996. I recently moved house, and doing my best attempt to Marie Kondo my office during the move, I ended up finding some things that I thought were long gone.
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