Message-Id: <mailto:199502081708.LAA27082@library.wustl.edu> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 11:30:23 -0500 From: Dana Bonstrom <mailto:bonstrom@FAS.HARVARD.EDU> Subject: Re: Help! on file formats To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
>Today I purchased a CD-ROM produced by Sony Electronic Publishing called
>the Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House. The disk contains
>700 photographs, which I would like to modify with Adobe Photoshop 3.0.
>The problem is that I cannot get Photoshop to recognize the formats of
>the images. Any suggestions?
Mary Shrode's suggestion (making a screen dump) is correct. Since the images on the CD-ROM are intended for screen display only, a screen dump will get you all the information (resolution) likely available in the on-disk base image. On a Mac a screen shot is invoked with SHIFT-COMMAND-3 (there are screen capture utilities available that allow more editing and file format options, but since you're headed into Photoshop the Apple screen dump will work just fine).
The captured screen will show up in the first level of your boot drive as a PICT file with the name "Picture 1" (Picture 2, Picture 3, etc.) You can open them directly in Photoshop.
DOS or Windoze? Send a message to mailto:billg@microsoft.com for instructions... ;-)
An ethical sidebar (*not* an accusation, BTW): I hope you're contemplating this work *only* for your own entertainment. Content developers pay big bucks for "assets" like the photographs on this disk... a copyright is a copyright and a licensing fee is a licensing fee, after all, even if the publisher is a big outfit like Sony. One of the recurring challenges to developers and publishers is convincing those who retain the rights to potential content that they won't lose control of their materials once they've entered the digital domain. How do you respond to the question "What prevents someone from copying photographs from the CD-ROM and using them for their own purposes (or gain)?" It's not easy.
Off the soapbox...
˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ Dana Bonstrom Director, New Media Initiative ˙˙˙THE FILM STUDY CENTER˙˙˙ Harvard University 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138 tel 617.496.2714 fax 617.495.8199 ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙