I'm confused. Elements does not have a facility to burn CDs that I know of..

Peter Goldberger wrote:.

I have tried to burn a CD from Elements 5. While the images didburn the quality was not good when viewed on the computer (XP)..

Perhaps whatever you did to the images in PSE5 was not good? Could you show us the before and after results?.

I then burnt from the memory card and the quality was perfect.However, as the images were from the card they were unpost-processed..

Any help in how to improve the quality when burning from Elements 5to a CD would be appreciated..

A good PP workflow would be:.

1. Transfer the contents of the memory card to a folder on your computer.2. Launch PSE5 and edit all the pix.3. Save all the editied pix back to the folder, with a different name.4. Launch your CD writing application and write to CD..

Please tell us what you did, in detail..

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Yes, it does. But I don't understand how the OP is doing it. If you are talking about a slideshow VCD, that has inherently horrible quality and that's all there is to it. But are you talking about using Copy/Move to burn a CD? That should produce an image that is identical to the original...

As long as you burn photo files as data there should be no deterioration from the transfer to CD. Which means your save from Elements was at too low a quality if the images on the CD ended up low quality. Since you cant burn directly from Elements the edited files were saved to your Windows file system before being burned. You improve the quality that goes to the CD by improving the quality of your save. Never save for web and be aware of your image size and also the quality setting if saving as a JPG..

Hopefully you didnt overwrite the originals as Chuxter suggests. They are your digital negatives and shouldnt be altered...

Since you cant burn directly from Elements.

Once again, you can burn both a copy of a file and a VCD slideshow from the Elements Organizer, although neither is necessarily a particularly desirable thing to do...

Conchita wrote:.

Since you cant burn directly from Elements.

Once again, you can burn both a copy of a file and a VCD slideshowfrom the Elements Organizer, although neither is necessarily aparticularly desirable thing to do..

A VCD slideshow is low quality, but it doesnt appear he is doing that. If you can burn multiple copies at once I dont see where it is that undesirable unless it reduces size or quality..

Does that use the XP burner? Bridge probably has similar capabilities but it isnt the way I would choose to burn images if it does...

Thanks for your replies..

This is what I did:-.

Go into organiserClick createSlide show-preview highSelect images for slide showClick outputBurn to Disc.

Any comments please?..

Yes, that is the VCD slideshow. It is lousy; there's nothing you can do to make it better...