Kodak PhotoCd images

Did you ‘explore’ all the subfolders? If I remember right, they are sort of hidden in a sub/sub folder. Oh, I mean you should be able to find the actual .jpg’s. But, I could be crazy….it has been awhile.

"gar" wrote in message

I am trying to open images(.PCD) from a Kodak PhotoCD disk I had made many years ago and CS3 won’t open this file-type anymore, apparently. Are these files destined to become lost to the trash?

thanks

Gary W. Chmura

tweaked_eye wrote:

Did you ‘explore’ all the subfolders? If I remember right, they are sort of hidden in a sub/sub folder. Oh, I mean you should be able to find the actual .jpg’s. But, I could be crazy….it has been awhile.
"gar" wrote in message

I am trying to open images(.PCD) from a Kodak PhotoCD disk I had made many years ago and CS3 won’t open this file-type anymore, apparently. Are these files destined to become lost to the trash?

thanks

Gary W. Chmura

Or was it that they came with a program to open them.

You could try the Kodak site and see what they have to say about how to open this type of file.

Kodak has dropped support of the PhotoCD plugin software.

Adobe shipped the Kodak PhotoCD files in the goodies folder for PS CS3 and earlier versions. If you have the install CD or download for older versions, you can copy it from there to the file format folder in CS4. If your system is Intel Mac without Rosetta, or 64 bit, you cannot use this plugin. iPhoto does support PCD format, however.

If you have substantial numbers of images in PhotoCD format, it’s time to copy them to something like tiff format before it’s too late. —
Mike Russell – http://www.curvemeister.com

I am trying to open images(.PCD) from a Kodak PhotoCD disk I had made many years ago and CS3 won’t open this file-type anymore, apparently. Are these files destined to become lost to the trash?

thanks

Gary W. Chmura

You need the Photo CD.8BI plug in. Look on your Photoshop CD to see if its in the goodies or copy it from an old version of PS. I had the same problem with CS4 and PhotoCD files but after putting the plug in in the Plugins/File Formats folder I was able to open the files.

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Geoff J.

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I am trying to open images(.PCD) from a Kodak PhotoCD disk I had made many years ago and CS3 won’t open this file-type anymore, apparently. Are these files destined to become lost to the trash?

thanks

Gary W. Chmura

You need the Photo CD.8BI plug in. Look on your Photoshop CD to see if its in the goodies or copy it from an old version of PS. I had the same problem with CS4 and PhotoCD files but after putting the plug in in the Plugins/File Formats folder I was able to open the files.
—
Geoff J.

To add to my previous post, I can not open the PhotoCD files in Bridge but they open OK using File/Open in Photoshop.

—
Geoff J.

"Geoff J" wrote:

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I am trying to open images(.PCD) from a Kodak PhotoCD disk I had made many years ago and CS3 won’t open this file-type anymore, apparently. Are these files destined to become lost to the trash?

thanks

Gary W. Chmura

You need the Photo CD.8BI plug in. Look on your Photoshop CD to see if its in the goodies or copy it from an old version of PS. I had the same problem with CS4 and PhotoCD files but after putting the plug in in the Plugins/File Formats folder I was able to open the files.
—
Geoff J.

To add to my previous post, I can not open the PhotoCD files in Bridge but they open OK using File/Open in Photoshop.

In this case, it seems like you have Windows File Association issue *not* Photoshop. And on my system, Photoshop not allow to touch any format by itself *until* I give it an order to open within Photoshop.

IOW, I never like the idea of shooting a fly with an elephant gun. Or I would rather to use a much smaller and quicker graphic viewer to view an image than loading the bloddy Photoshop.

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I am trying to open images(.PCD) from a Kodak PhotoCD disk I had made many years ago and CS3 won’t open this file-type anymore, apparently. Are these files destined to become lost to the trash?

thanks

Gary W. Chmura

You need the Photo CD.8BI plug in. Look on your Photoshop CD to see if its
in the goodies or copy it from an old version of PS. I had the same problem with CS4 and PhotoCD files but after putting the plug in in the Plugins/File Formats folder I was able to open the files.
—
Geoff J.

To add to my previous post, I can not open the PhotoCD files in Bridge but
they open OK using File/Open in Photoshop.

In this case, it seems like you have Windows File Association issue *not* Photoshop. And on my system, Photoshop not allow to touch any format by itself *until* I give it an order to open within Photoshop.
IOW, I never like the idea of shooting a fly with an elephant gun. Or I would rather to use a much smaller and quicker graphic viewer to view an image than loading the bloddy Photoshop.

Joel, I do not have a file association issue, I was simply pointing out to the op that it is possible to open Kodak PhotoCD files in Photoshop but not in Bridge. Why do you use a graphic viewer when you can use Bridge? If you don’t like Photoshop why use it at all??? Please define bloddy.

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Geoff J.

Ok, the filter seemed to work so I’ll open these with PShop. thanks for your help guys.

Gary

gar wrote:

I am trying to open images(.PCD) from a Kodak PhotoCD disk I had made many years ago and CS3 won’t open this file-type anymore, apparently. Are these files destined to become lost to the trash?

thanks

Gary W. Chmura

"gar" wrote

I am trying to open images(.PCD) from a Kodak PhotoCD disk I had made many years ago and CS3 won’t open this file-type anymore, apparently. Are these files destined to become lost to the trash?

thanks

Gary W. Chmura

"tweaked_eye" wrote in message …
Did you ‘explore’ all the subfolders? If I remember right, they are sort of hidden in a sub/sub folder. Oh, I mean you should be able to find the actual .jpg’s. But, I could be crazy….it has been awhile.

I think you may be confused with PhotoCD and PictureCD. Both by Kodak, PhotoCD was a high resolution image with it’s own pcd file format aimed at prsofessionals, Picture CD was lower resolution scans saved as jpg’s meant for amateurs.

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Geoff J.

I think you are correct in my incorrectness. 😉

I think you may be confused with PhotoCD and PictureCD. Both by Kodak, PhotoCD was a high resolution image with it’s own pcd file format aimed at prsofessionals, Picture CD was lower resolution scans saved as jpg’s meant for amateurs.

—
Geoff J.

"Geoff J" wrote:

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To add to my previous post, I can not open the PhotoCD files in Bridge but
they open OK using File/Open in Photoshop.

In this case, it seems like you have Windows File Association issue *not* Photoshop. And on my system, Photoshop not allow to touch any format by itself *until* I give it an order to open within Photoshop.
IOW, I never like the idea of shooting a fly with an elephant gun. Or I would rather to use a much smaller and quicker graphic viewer to view an image than loading the bloddy Photoshop.

Joel, I do not have a file association issue, I was simply pointing out to the op that it is possible to open Kodak PhotoCD files in Photoshop but not in Bridge. Why do you use a graphic viewer when you can use Bridge? If you don’t like Photoshop why use it at all??? Please define bloddy.

In this case, you seem to have File Association between Bridge and Photoshop. I don’t use Bridge to view graphic either, cuz graphic viewer is much simpler, smaller, quicker, and more better viewing option than Bridge or Photoshop.

*Unless* I wanna display the photo for retouching then sure I will use either LightRoom, ARC, or Photoshop. But just for viewing then I use regular graphic viewer, and if I only wanna see what in the folder then I don’t even care to fire up a graphic viewer either, but just THUMBNAIL display is plenty good for me.