Photo CD in practice
One of the most common questions asked by potential users
of Photo CD is, "Who is using this technology?" The
answer is that people from all walks of life are using Photo
CD successfully for a range of projects. They are producing projects
like scanning for virtual reality products, for museum artwork
archives, for simple employee announcements and bulletins in
electronic mail systems.
Prepress, printing and multimedia are among the most popular
uses of Photo CD images, with the larger percentage comprising
prepress applications. Archiving images comes in third, the largest
being libraries of images belonging to stock photo agencies and
institutions. Organizations such as NASA are using Photo CD discs
to record for posterity the vast number of images that must be
protected from deterioration and abuse from handling.
The Kodak Photo CD Portfolio 1I disc is gaining ground as a presentation
tool, especially since Kodak has announced the open use of that
product. Photo CD Portfolio discs can be written with branching
presentations that will work on television players and computers.
The same disc can also contain computer software in any format
and of any type. The ability to create a YCC file from within
Adobe Photo. hays software will round out the capabilities of
the disc, making it possible to write edited Photo CD Image Pac
files to a Photo CD Portfolio disc, as well as to write images
derived from reflective or computer art into a format which was
originally aimed exclusively at film scans from the Photo CD
imaging workstations.
