Our computer repair customers from all around Sydney often ask us whether they should be using Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Lightroom for computer photo editing. Let’s go through some pros and cons of both programs. We realise this has nothing to do with our usual topic of computer repairs but we hope you will forgive us. 

Adobe Lightroom was designed for photographers who want to use comuters for editing. Lightroom has tools to make routine photo fixing tasks easier than using equivalent tools in Photoshop. You  can use both programs side by side. A lot of photographers tends to use Lightroom for a lot of the routine work and save Photoshop for advanced photographic repairs. Lightroom lets you makes global edits to your photos in a non-destructive manner as the changes in the Lightroom images aren’t rendered to the file until your export it. In Lightroom, you can copy changes from your images in one or two keystrokes. In photoshop you would need to open all of your images, makes your changes and then save them or write an action to do the world.  

1. Open VLC Media Player. 

2. On the menu bar click File | Media | Open disc.

3. Let the DVD Play to location where you wish to take a photo and then click the pause button.

5. Click the Camera button (circled in orange above). This will then capture the image from the DVD.

Note if you cannot see the Camera button go to the menu bar and click View | Advanced Controls.

6. The picture will now be stored in the My Pictures Folder. This is accessible by clicking the Start Menu | Pictures.

Congratulations you have now captured a picture from a DVD.