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6 - Using CDs & DVDs
1 - Avoid CDs & DVDs
Bring your photographs to class on a USB flash drive, rather
than on a CD or DVD.
There are three reasons.
Convenience
During, and at the end of class, you'll save your photographs
by burning them to a CD or DVD.
Burning is a time-consuming process.
And, every time you save your work, you'll need to use a new
disc.
You can reuse discs only if you use erasable CD-RW and DVD-RW
discs.
If you have a Mac at home, you can use multisession burning.
However, it's a complicated process.
If you're using a Windows computer at home, there are two more
reasons.
Windows Computer Discs from Home
May Not Open
Generally, Macs can read discs from a Windows computer.
However, occasionally, a Windows computer disc from home won't
open in class on a Mac.
Mac Discs Won't Open at Home
You'll save your photographs at the end of class by burning them
to a disc.
A disc burned in class on a Mac may not open on your Windows
computer at home.
MacDrive
(about $50) is an example of a program that will open Mac files
on Windows computers.
Generally, you can use CD-R and CD-RW discs, or DVD-R and DVD-RW
discs.
You can erase and reuse "RW" discs, but not "R" discs.
Don't use DVD+R and DVD+RW discs.
If you're not sure what type of discs you can burn, do the following.
Using the Go menu, go to Applications > Utilities > System Profiler
> Hardware > Disc Burning.
Look for the media types listed after CD–Write and DVD–Write.
Slot
If there's a slot, push the disc in until it's grabbed by the
Mac.
Tray
If there's a tray, do one of the following.
• Press the Eject key.
The key has an upward pointing arrow with a horizontal line underneath.
It's located in the top right position on the keyboard.
• If your keyboard doesn't have an eject key, press the F12 key,
and hold it down for a few seconds.
Don't press and release the key quickly.
Otherwise, Dashboard will open.
• Press Command + e.
• Go to File > Eject.
4 - Create a Save Folder
Click File on the Finder menu bar at the top of the monitor screen,
and select New Folder.
Name the folder Save.
Click File on the Finder menu bar at the top of the monitor screen,
and select New Burn Folder.
A folder with a yellow/black burn icon will appear on the Desktop.
6 - Open & Drag
Insert your disc, if you haven't already, and do the following.
1) On the Desktop, double click the icon for the disk drive folder,
to open its window.
2) Select and drag your files, from the disk drive folder window,
onto the Save folder icon.
3) Close the disk drive folder window.
4) Double click the icon for the Save folder, to open its window.
5) Select and drag your files, from the Save folder window, to
the Burn folder window.
Aliases, or shortcuts, are created to the files in the Save folder.
6) Open Photoshop Elements.
7) Open your photographs from the Save folder.
7 - Burn Your Files to a Blank Disc
During class, and at the end of class, do the following to save
your photographs.
If You Created Save & Burn Folders
If you created Save and Burn folders, do
the following.
1) Insert a blank disc.
2) Press Control and click the Burn folder.
3) Select Burn Disc.
If You Don't Have Save & Burn Folders
If you opened your photographs from a disc, and haven't saved
them yet, do the following.
1) Insert a blank disc.
2) Select Open Finder in the pop-up menu.
3) An icon for the blank disc drive will appear on the Desktop.
4) Click File on the Finder menu bar at the top of the monitor
screen, and select New Folder.
Name the folder Save.
5) Return to Photoshop Elements, and using Save As, save your
photographs to the Save folder.
6) Click the icon for the Save folder, to open its window.
7) Do one of the following to burn the disc.
• Go to File > Burn Disc.
• Press Control and click on the Save folder, and select Burn
Disc.
• Drag the Save folder icon onto Trash in the Dock.
The Trash icon will turn into a Burn icon.
• In a Finder window, in the top of the sidebar, you'll see the
blank disc.
Click the burn icon that's to the right of the blank disc icon.
8) Click Burn in the confirmation window.
9) After the burn, open the the disc drive icon to make sure
your photographs are on the disc.
If you want to re-use a CD-RW disc, or a DVD-RW disc, you need
to erase it using Disk Utility.
1) Using the Go menu, go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility.
2) Click the Erase tab.
3) Select the disc you want to erase on the left side of the
window.
4) When erasing CD-RW and DVD-RW discs, there's no need to enter
anything in the Volume Format or Name boxes.
5) Click Erase.
8 - Burn More than Once to a Disc
Burning more than once to the same disc is called multisession
burning.
Note #1
If you have a Mac at home, you can burn multiple times to the
same CD, but not to a DVD.
Windows-computer users can't use multisession burning in class
because Windows computers can't read the disk image file (.dmg)
that's used.
Note #2
This tutorial is for OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
For other versions of OS X, go to
Mac OS X: How to burn a multi-session CD.
Steps
1) Using the Go menu, go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility.
2) Go to File > New > Disc Image from Folder.
3) In the Select Folder to Image window, find and select the
Save
folder.
This is the folder you created for saving your photographs.
4) Click Image in the bottom right corner of the Select Folder
to Image window.
5) In the New Image from Folder window, do the following.
• In the Save As box, enter Image1 as the name for your disk
image.
• In the Where box, select Desktop.
• In the Image Format box, select read/write.
• In the Encryption box, select None.
• Click Save.
6) When the disk image has finished processing, a Disk Utility
window will appear with Image1.dmg (or the name you selected) at
the top.
Do the following.
• Select the disk image, Image1.dmg, on the left side of the
window.
• Click Burn, in the top right corner of the window.
7) The drive door will open.
Insert a blank CD (no DVDs).
A Burn window will appear.
Select the following.
• Use the default speed, such as Maximum Possible (24x).
• If you're using a CD-RW disc that's full, check Erase disc
before burning.
• Be sure to check Leave disc appendable.
• Check Verify burned data
• Eject disc
• If you want to check the disc, check Mount on Desktop.
After burning, you'll find the disc on the Desktop.
• Click Burn.
10) Eject the disk image file.
To add more disk image files to the disc later, follow the above
steps to create a new disk image, with a different name, such as
Image2.
When you use the disc again, the Burn window will not have a
Burn button.
Instead, look for the Append button.
At home, use
DropDMG, a download available from Apple, to make the above
process easier.
You can also use Roxio's
Toast or Easy Media Creator 9 Suite.
9 - Eject a Disc
Do one of the following.
• Press the Eject key.
The key has an upward pointing arrow with a horizontal line underneath.
It's located in the top right position on the keyboard.
• If your keyboard doesn't have an eject key, press the F12 key,
and hold for a few seconds.
If you press and release the key quickly, Dashboard will open.
• Press Command + e.
• Press Control, click on the drive icon, and select Eject.
• Drag the icon for the disk drive to the Trash icon in the Dock.
10 - Disc Won't Eject
Photoshop Elements Is Still Running
If Photoshop Elements is still running, your disc may not eject
until the program is closed.
The program is running if there's a black triangle below the
Photoshop Elements icon in the Dock.
Go to Close
Photoshop Elements.
Photoshop Elements Is Not Running
If Photoshop Elements isn't running, and you've tried the
above eject commands, do the
following:
1) Click Apple on the Finder menu bar at the top of the monitor
screen, and select Restart.
2) Hold down the mouse button when you hear the startup sound
as the computer restarts.
To continue, use the menu
above, or click Back.
