Photo CD

Writable

image

An image file format developed by Kodak for scanning film and delivering on CD. Combines multiple resolutions into a single file. Images are in the Photo YCC color encoding, and stored using in units called IMAGE PAC files.

Identify it

Extensions	`.pcd`
MIME types	`image/x-photo-cd`
Signatures	`ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff` at byte 0 (Kodak Photo CD)
PRONOM	`fmt/211x-fmt/165`
Wikidata	`Q28206936`

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Open it

ImageMagickOpen sourcereads and writes · ImageMagick License
AbydosOpen sourcereads · GNU Lesser General Public License
ConverseenOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
DevILOpen sourcereads · GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1
ExifToolOpen sourcereads · Artistic License / GNU General Public License, version 1.0 or later
imageioOpen sourcereads · 2-clause BSD License
LibreOffice DrawOpen sourcereads · Mozilla Public License, version 2.0
zgvOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License
Photo Express My Scrapbookreads and writes
Riptide Photo Studioreads and writes
Ulead Cool 360writes
Zoner Photo Studioreads and writes
ABViewerreads
ACD FotoCanvas Litereads
ACDSee 5reads
Adobe PhotoDeluxereads
Adobe PhotoDeluxe 2.0reads
Adobe PhotoDeluxe Business Edition 1.1reads
Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0reads
Advanced Photo Editorreads
ArcSoft PhotoStudioreads
Axialis IconWorkshopreads
CoffeeCup Softwarereads
Corel Presentations 11reads
CorelDRAW Graphics Suitereads
Digital Image Standard 2006 Editorreads
Hijaak Digital Photo Studioreads
Image Alchemyreads
IrfanViewreads · freeware
Lotus Freelance Graphicsreads
Medi@Show SE 2.0reads
MediaRich Serverreads
PaintShop Photo Pro X3reads
PaintShop Pro X4reads
Panorama Maker 2000reads
Photo Suite II SEreads
PhotoModelerreads · proprietary license
PhotoSuite III SEreads
PhotoWorks 2.41reads
PicaJetreads · freeware

And 10 more in the JSON record.

Convert it

To	With	Fidelity	Command and losses
Portable Network Graphics	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.pcd out.png` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
Tagged Image File Format	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.pcd out.tif` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
GIF 89a	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.pcd out.gif` Reduced to 256 colours.
JPEG File Interchange Format 1.02	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.pcd out.jpg` Lossy compression.
WebP	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.pcd out.webp` Lossy compression.

Versions and variants (1)

Kodak PhotoCD Image 1.0Unknown

Sources

From Converters (FFmpeg, ImageMagick, Pandoc, LibreOffice), Just Solve the File Format Problem (File Formats Wiki), PRONOM, Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-24.

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