Paint Shop Photo Album makes it easy to share your photos as slide shows with family and friends— right on your television set. A VCD is an electronic photo album, inexpensive and easy to duplicate, playable on both DVD players and computers.
Use the Auto Archive feature to save full-resolution copies of all images used in the slide show. This protects images from being lost due to possible hard drive failure. All of your previous slide shows are stored in the All Slide Shows view until you delete them. This makes it easy to create new VCD’s with the slide shows that you have already created, and new slide shows.
Use the VCD window to create a slide show or set of multiple slide shows, select a background and music track for the VCD menu (used for multiple-show disks to select the slide show), insert text screens between images in a slide show, and add a slide show soundtrack. Then burn the VCD and play it in a DVD player, or a computer with a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive.
There are six main steps used to create a VCD:
Add albums (called slide shows) to the All Slide Shows view.
Select a background and sound track for the VCD Menu screen (optional, if your VCD has more than one slide show).
Arrange the slide shows and images (optional).
Inserting a slide show sound track (optional).
Insert text screens between the images in a slide show (optional).
Burn the VCD to a CD-ROM.