Corel Stock Photo CD Step-by-Step Installation Instructions

IMPORTANT:
The software on Corel® CD-ROMs was published in the 1990's and may not be compatible with computers running modern versions of the Windows operating system. These instructions were created while installing the Corel CD-ROM software on a computer running the Windows XP (service pack 2) operating system.

Step 1) Click on your windows start Button (TIP: The Windows Start Button is located all the way on the left side of your Taskbar at the bottom of your monitor. See Figure A1 below)

Figure A1

Step 2) Click the "Run" button on the pop-up list and the "Run" dialogue box will open. (See Figure A2 below)

Figure A2

1. In the "Browse" dialogue box locate your CD-ROM drive. (TIP: if you click the drop down arrow next to the words "Look In" at the top of the dialogue box your CD-ROM drive should be in view)
   
   
2. Once you have located your CD-ROM drive click on it to look at the contents. (if you do not see any files, only folders, select "All Files" from the "Files of Type" drop-down list at the bottom of the dialogue box)
   
   
3. Locate the "SETUP.EXE" file and click on it. (if you have "SETUP.EXE_1" instead of "SETUP.EXE" see 1. IMPORTANT below otherwise continue to "d.")

... d. "SETUP.EXE" should populate the "File Name" field at the bottom of the Dialogue box.

... e. Click on the "Open" button. Your "Run"" dialogue box should now be populated with "SETUP.EXE" (see Figure A3 below - Your CD-ROM Drive letter may differ from ours which was "D:\") (See Figure A3 below)

... f. Click: "OK" to begin installing the software. Follow any prompts that are presented to you during the installation process.

Figure A3

... g. Once the software installation process is complete a window should appear displaying links to the programs. (see Figure A4 below)

Figure A4

Step 1) Once you have installed the Kodak software (see "A. Kodak Software Installation" above) , locate and open the program titled: "PhotoCD Lab". (see Figure A4 above)

Step 2) In the PhotoCD Lab program, click "File", "Open" on the Menu bar. (see Figure B1 below)

Figure B1

Step 3) In the "Open" dialogue box locate your CD-ROM drive from the "Drives" drop-down menu. (see Figure B2 below)

Figure B2

Step 4) Once you have selected your CD-ROM drive on the "Drives" drop-down menu, you should see the contents of the Corel CD that is in your CD-ROM Drive in the "Folders" viewer. Then locate the "Corel" folder and double-click it. (see Figure B3 below)

Figure B3

Step 5) You can now see all of the .pcd image files on the CD-ROM in the left side of the "Open" dialogue box. (see Figure B4 below)

Figure B4

Step 6) Click on any of the files and then click the "OK" button.

Step 7) The image that you clicked is now open. You can view the image Caption on the Blue Bar at the top of the program window and, with the image open, you can convert it to other sizes and formats. (see Figure B5 below)

Figure B5

Step 1) Click "Convert" on the menu bar. (see Figure C1 below)

Figure C1

Step 2) When the "Convert" menu dialogue box opens:

Figure C2

A. Under the "Format" menu select the image "Format" that you want the image to be saved in. "TIF" is a popular format that can be opened by most graphic programs.

B. Under the "Colors" menu change the setting to adjust how many colors are present in your image. "RGB Color" (24 Bit "true color" Color) will provide the most color in your image.

C. Under the "Resolution" menu select the size that you want your image to be.

D. Under the "Rotation" menu select how you want the image to appear.

E. "C:\" appears in the "Destination" text box. (see Figure C2 above)

The "C:\" is referring to a location on your computer. The program wants to save the image to a specific directory on your computer. So you have to create a directory on your computer to save the images in. Follow these steps to create the directory to save the images on your computer.

1) On your computer click the Start Menu. (see Figure C3 below)

Figure C3

2) When the Start Menu opens click on "My Computer". (see Figure C4 below)

Figure C4

3) Then click or double-click your "C:" drive to display the contents. (see Figure C5 below)

Figure C5

4) Then on the menu bar click "File", "New", "Folder". (see Figure C6 below)

Figure C6

5) A New Folder should have appeared on the screen in the contents pane of the window. The text should be highlighted in blue for you to enter a name for the new folder that you created. Type "corelpic" and then press the "enter" key to name the folder. You can make up any name for your folder just make sure you use your folder name consistently through the rest of the instructions below. Substitute your folder name for "corelpic" in the instructions below. (IMPORTANT: the folder name must be no more than 8 characters. Don't use any symbol characters like: $,-,+,*, etc. You should only use letters or numbers)

6) Go back to the Corel PhotoCd Lab program "Convert" menu. (it should still be open, if not just click: "Convert" on the menu bar to reopen it.)

7) Type "corelpic" next to the "C:\". So the "Destination" text box should now look like this: "C:\corelpic" (see Figure C7 below)

Figure C7

8) Click the "OK" button and then the "Select Files" dialogue box should open. (see Figure C8 below)

Figure C8

9) In the "Select Files" dialogue box click the file that you want to convert to highlight it, then click on the "Add" button to move that particular file to the right pane of the dialogue box. You can select 1 image at a time to convert or you can select them all at once by clicking the "Add All" button. Once you have selected the files that you want to convert then click the "OK" button. Your computer has now converted the image(s) to the format you selected and saved it in your "corelpic" folder.

10) Return to the contents of your "C" drive by returning to that window if it is still open on your computer or reopen it by following steps 1)-3) above.

11) Look for your folder: "corelpic" and click or double-click it to display its contents.

12) You should see that your image files were saved in this folder in the format you selected.

The images are stored on the COREL CD-ROM in the "COREL" directory. Macintosh users may access the images by navigating to that directory.