View Photo CD files in your browser
The pictures Kodak's Photo CD put on a disc, scanned from your film at the lab. Open a PCD right here at its full size, in its colors. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your file opens at actual size, or shrunk to fit your screen.
- Actual size, or shrunk to fit
- Drag to pan • Pinch or scroll to zoom
- Fullscreen
- Export • Save as PNG or JPEG
About Photo CD
Kodak brought out Photo CD in 1992: a lab scanned a roll of film and wrote each frame to a CD as an Image Pac, IMG0001.PCD on, in the disc's PHOTO_CD/IMAGES folder, with OVERVIEW.PCD as its contact sheet. Labs made them through the 1990s and into the 2000s, and many families' photos from then are on these discs.
Each Image Pac keeps its picture at five sizes, from 192 × 128 to 3072 × 2048, in Kodak's PhotoYCC colors: the three smaller ones whole, and the two biggest as their differences from the size below, packed in Huffman codes. Kodak's software is long gone, Windows, Macs and phones don't open them, and Photoshop dropped Kodak's plug-in years ago.
Filepeek reads the Image Pac in your browser: the biggest size it holds, added up from its differences, its PhotoYCC colors turned into the screen's and the picture turned the way the lab marked it. OVERVIEW.PCD opens as its thumbnails, a page each, and Export saves the picture as PNG or JPEG.
Kodak Photo CD picture
.pcd
Format
- MIME type
- image/x-photo-cd
- Made by
- Kodak's Photo CD, scanned from film at photo labs
- Released
- 1992
Inside the file
- Sizes
- 192 × 128 to 3072 × 2048
- Colors
- Kodak's PhotoYCC
- Biggest two
- Huffman-coded differences
- On the disc
- PHOTO_CD/IMAGES
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens Photo CD pictures in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. On their own, browsers only download them.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open Photo CD
- WindowsIrfanView and XnView MP
- MacXnView MP and GraphicConverter
- iPhone and iPadNo app built in reads it
- AndroidNo app built in reads it
Questions
How do I open the pictures on my Photo CD?
Put the disc in a drive, open its PHOTO_CD folder and then IMAGES, and drop the IMG files here, or the whole folder.
Which size does it open?
The biggest it holds, 3072 × 2048 on most discs. A Pro Photo CD's 6144 × 4096 lives in files of its own, which don't open.
Can I save it as JPEG?
Yes. Choose Export, then Save as JPEG or PNG, at the size it opened.
Is it the same as a PCD point cloud?
No. The Point Cloud Library's point clouds are .pcd too. Filepeek tells them apart by their first bytes and opens each in its own viewer.