Poor quality pix on CDs made on PSE 7

Running Windows Vista (64 bit) and PSE 7.0 to make slide show CDs but picture quality not nearly as sharp as original pix in PSE catalog. How can I sharpen images?

>PSE 7.0 to make slide show CDs but picture quality not nearly as sharp as original pix in PSE catalog.
You did not say explicitly - but my suspicion is that you created a VCD (video CD) format from the PSE 7 slide show editor. That format is very low resolution (see below for details), so it can not give you the same quality as your original photos from a digital camera. And the images will look even worse if you go Full Screen on your PC or laptop monitor OR if you play them on a large screen TV.
So you need to find another method of making and outputing your slide show in order to have better quality images. There are many options and here is an overview of several:
-- Especially if you will do PC playback of your slide shows, ProShow Gold by Photodex is software that multiple forum participants have recommended - and it can also burn TV playable DVDs.
-- if you also purchased Adobe Prremiere Elements 7, it will output a slide show on to a TV playable DVD. Or since you have Vista, you can output to a WMV file from the PSE slide show editor and then use that wmv file as input to the Vista DVD Maker that is present in Vista Home Premium and Ultimate.
-- if you will be doing PC playback, you can try the higher resolution options for creating a WMV file that has higher resolution. The PSE slideshow has OUTPUT options that are identified as for Media Center playback: however they can also be used for playback on a Windows PC/laptop that is not a Media Center PC.
Note 1: if you are creating standard DVDs, these are video and the resolution will still be less than the capability of your PC monitor. However, it is signficantly better than the VCD format.
Note 2: Some people have observed that the PSE editor or organizer do a better job of downsizing resolution than the slide show editor. So if you do decided to downsize yourself, consider that if you will be doing pan or zoom you should allow extra pixels for that purpose.
Some details on VCD format -
VCD For NTSC -
1150 kbit/sec MPEG-1
352 x 240 pixels
29,97 frames/second
VCD For PAL -
1150 kbit/sec MPEG-1
352 x 288 pixels
25 frames/second

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