When burning a folder of photos to DVD, photos on dvd are all pixellated
I use a Nikon D50. Images look great in iphoto, or when printed. But when I burn a folder to dvd for sharing with others, the photos on the dvd are mostly pixellated, some are fuzzy, almost like out of focus. What's going on? Help!
17" flat screen imac Mac OS X (10.3.9) 1 GB ram
You're looking at the thumbnails. When you burn from inside iPhoto, you're actually creating a miniature library. It's intended for creating a disc that will be recognized by iPhoto in another Mac computer. Each photo is represented by the original "out of the camera" version and the latest modified version (if any modifications were made). Finally, there is a thumbnail of each photo (used by iPhoto) and that's apparently what you were viewing.
If you merely wish to distribute photos to others (including your favorite photofinisher), export the photos to a temporary folder on the desktop. Then quit iPhoto and do a normal (Finder) burn. When finished you can trash the temp folder.
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