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I bumped into this recently with a couple Kodak PhotoCDs I uncovered last month. Trying to get the pictures out of the PCD files is turning out to be more chall

by dhosek 5y ago

I bumped into this recently with a couple Kodak PhotoCDs I uncovered last month. Trying to get the pictures out of the PCD files is turning out to be more challenging than I expected.

deltarholamda 5y ago
Is ImageMagick not doing the job? It's been a while, but Photoshop used to be pretty adept at this as well.
- dhosek 5y ago
  I haven't checked ImageMagick to see if it supports PCD, I'll have to see if I can do it in my wife's PhotoShop license.
  - dhosek 5y ago
    And ImageMagick will only do the lowest resolution images from the files.
js2 5y ago
I converted mine years ago using iPhoto but according to Wikipedia, there are several programs that can do the conversion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_CD#Converting_Photo_CD_images https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_CD#Converting_Photo_CD_i...
- dhosek 5y ago
  iPhoto no longer exists and the replacement, Photos doesn't support it. A free command-line tool I found doesn't run any without signing and I need to find the dependent library for JPEG handling to use it. Other apps are paid.
  - dhosek 5y ago
    And an online service that claims to do it only extracts the lowest resolution scan from the file.
mro_name 5y ago
what was the issue - hardware access (a CD reader), bit rot or else? The image format was jpeg if I remember correctly, wasn't it?
- dhosek 5y ago
  It's a custom undocumented format with a lot of oddities to it (particularly in its color profile handling, or more precisely lack thereof).
- mark-r 5y ago
  I don't think it was JPEG, it was a custom format that contained multiple resolutions.