someone has sent me a photo slideshow on CD - how can I print off a picture?

VixxAnn

Someone has sent me a photo slide show CD and I would like to print off a couple of the individual pictures. I don't know exactly what kind of slideshow program it is, there isn't any pause / next / back buttons it just goes from one photo to the next and to come out of it I have to press the windows button.

When I look at properties and type of file it just says Application, also it has the read only box ticked.

Is there any way at all I can get to these photos or not?

(I cannot get back in touch with the sender of the CD to get these sent direct)

BigAl94

Try this. With the CD in the drive, go to start - run - in the box type the letter of your CD drive as follows eg / and then click browse. This will show the folders in the CD and one may contain the pics. You can then copy these over to a selected folder on your hard drive and print as usual. I know this works with a slide show created with Picasso.

VixxAnn

No, tried it - it just shows one item in the folder and if you click on that it starts the slideshow, the individual pictures aren't listed. If you try and right click on it you can send to somewhere else but when you do that it just transfers the whole photoshow again (as a whole)
Hope you understand this, I'm not getting it down very well!

We_Laugh_Indoors

when you are on the slide you want to print, press the print screen key on the keyboard.

after that open up paint or another program of the like and select paste from the edit menu.

this will put the picture on the screen and you can save and print as you like.

the quality may be a bit lower than you would like however.

jazzy

have you tried right clicking the cdrom drive in my computer and select explore. The files jpeg are probably located in one of the folders?

VixxAnn

I don't think I am going to get any where with this CD - have tried the above and its coming up with "Author does not allow copying of any graphical information"

oh well

Mr_Skint_2

When the slide show appears hit a key on your keyboard called..

Print Screen SysRq, and after you have hit this key open Microsoft Paint
and click on Edit, Paste, Now your picture will appear (should do) now
click on the select tool (square left to the triangle tool) now choose the
area you want by dragging the mouse over the picture, and now choose
Edit, Cut, Now click on file New (no to save changes) now a new blank file will
appear, now click, Edit, Paste, You may have more of a border around your picture
to get rid of theese borders click on the Blue Squares at the edge of the canvas and
drag in to your pictures so that the borders dissapear...

Now choose File, Save As, Give it a name and a folder where to save it
and then click on save.......

skippy64

Without wanting to sound like a killjoy, is the slideshow from images that were professionally taken and for your viewing purposes only to select & order prints from?

Mr_Skint_2

If it is copyrighted you can use it for personal use
only and cannot publish or re-distribute or sell to a third party..

Is that what you were getting at skippy64

skippy64

My response was based from a professional photographers standpoint in that I was enquirying if the slideshow disc had been supplied so that they could view and order prints from it. If this was the case then to try and produce prints would be an infringement of the Copyright act and be taking away someones way of earning a living.

VixxAnn

I just wanted to be able to use one of the pictures as a screensaver/wallpaper on my PC and thought I'd be able to get access to it from the slideshow CD.

Didn't think that would affect copyrights but don't think I'm going to be able to do it, technically, anyway - so I guess thats the end of that!
Thanks everyone for your input.