Software to do this ?

colinuk · 28 Sep 2007 at 12:44

I have an issue. I have about 160 pictures i have taken at an event and now find that some poeple have asked me for a cd/dvd of them. i want to give them the pictures in such a way they can view them, but not get reprints done them selfs.

Is there a software program anyone would recomend for this? i tried acdc but this didnt seem to work as all it did was create a movie file and put the pictures on the dvd too...

cheers for reading

Colin

boycee · 28 Sep 2007 at 12:56

powerpoint slide show with watermarks? Save as exe, next to impossible to go back. (Watermarks tops the "alt+printscreen" situation)

TRiP · 28 Sep 2007 at 21:46

windows movie maker will do it,lets you add music, fade effects and titles too

colinuk · 29 Sep 2007 at 17:15

Using either of these two software - will i be able to burn to a DVD to play on a DVD player or will they need to be on a PC/laptop to run?

Colin

Darryn · 29 Sep 2007 at 18:59

Id use Nero Photo VideoCD, this will do what you want and if you resize the images to 800x600 before burning to disk, they wont be of much use for printing anyway, they will still look fine on a TV though.

Energize · 29 Sep 2007 at 19:08

You can create a super video cd or just burn the jpeg files as most dvd player will play them natively, you can't stop people creating their own prints though. If they can see the photo, they can copy it.

Darryn · 29 Sep 2007 at 19:59

Watermark them in Photoshop or Gimp?

Tysonator · 4 Oct 2007 at 22:19

I used NERO Slide Show creator, you can add music, flim clips etc and the pictures can not be used toprint from.

Munromax · 4 Oct 2007 at 22:30

Nearly any photo editing software will allow you save copies of your pics as lo-res JPG's which are perfectly ok to view on PC/Mac, but not good enough to print.

colinuk · 5 Oct 2007 at 11:40

Darryn said:
Watermark them in Photoshop or Gimp?

Not quiet sure what you mean by this? wont the water mark show on the picture on the screen and ruin the image? not done this so forgive my ignorance.

Colin

fat_wife · 5 Oct 2007 at 16:31

Include some T&C on the dvd, that's your best and safest bet.

Darryn · 5 Oct 2007 at 18:25

colinuk said:
Not quiet sure what you mean by this? wont the water mark show on the picture on the screen and ruin the image? not done this so forgive my ignorance.

Colin

Id go for semi-ruining the image, id keep the watermark quite small and transparenty at about 50%, but, Id make sure you cover at least some part of the main image, so they cannot just crop or easily clone out the copyright.

Something like this

PardonTheWait · 5 Oct 2007 at 18:40

Nice choice of sample

Tysonator · 5 Oct 2007 at 20:44

I concur with Mohinder !