Made a Disk Image - Now what?

I finished a project in IDVD. I burned a copy and it all worked nice.
Now I want to save it as a Disk Image on my external drive and get back the space used for the project on my Mac HD.
I seem to have made the image fine, but I can't open it? Should I be able to view it from the external drive? Should I be able to bring it back on the Mac HD to view?
I appreciate the help......Looks like it automatically saved as a .img file on my Lacie.
Thank you!
Bill

A disk image is just an 'image' of a DVD you can burn.
You can double-click on the image and mount it on your desktop. Then use Apple's DVD Player application to play the VIDEO_TS folder in the mounted disk image.
I don't know why you can't view it from the external.
Sue

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I've just backed up my Mac, onto an external hard disk. I've now begun to think that I should make it secure, so if it ever fell into the wrong hands they can't access it without a password.
I understand that I have to create a 'Disk Image'. But what is a Disk Image? Is it simply a folder with my backup in, which is protected by a password?
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Thanks for response.
I want to backup my entire computer onto an external hard disk. I've done as you said: made a Disk Image of my Hard Disk (password protected, read/write). I can now copy that to my external hard disk.
I now intend to backup my Users > Home folder every week. But I can't drag my Home folder onto the .dmg file to copy and replace the old Home folder.
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