Image files with a PNG extension are better alternatives than with a GIF extension since they include a transparency channel and support 24-bit RGB color palettes, RGB images, and greyscale. Unlike PNG, ISO image file is an archive file which is composed of all the data content written on an optical disc sector by sector. To better store the PNG image files, in this article, I would like to let you know how to convert PNG files to a single ISO image file with ISO creators.

Part 1: Know about ISO image file

An ISO image file is a disk image of an optical disc. ISO image files bear the “.iso” filename extension, which is a single file that's a perfect representation of an entire CD, DVD, or BD since the entire content of a disc can be precisely duplicated in a single ISO file. ISO format is recognized as an international standard file format that can contain a large number of images and media files in a single file. Nowadays, ISO has become the most popular disc image file format, including major system installation files, major commercial software and more.

An ISO image is simply a CD-ROM image saved in ISO-9660 format. ISO images are mainly used as source files from which to create CDs. Once you download the image, you can use CD burning software to recreate the physical CD-ROM install media. So using ISO images is a very efficient way to download a distribution. All that required is sufficient hard disk space, proper burning software, and a CD recorder.

Part 2: How to create ISO image from PNG files with Leawo DVD Creator

About Leawo DVD Creator

Leawo DVD Creator allows you to customize your DVD menu and helps in DVD burning. You can easily burn videos in 180 formats to DVD content like MP4 to DVD, MKV to DVD, FLV to DVD, etc. and create a photo slideshow DVD from images in various formats. It is easy and useful for business people to store some files and convert IMG files to ISO/DVD with super high speed and high-quality output. Almost all image files, including PNG, JPG, JPEG, etc. are supported by Leawo DVD Creator. Users can use the built-in editor to edit input image files easily by applying effects, setting transition, importing music and others. What’s more, you can make your own DVD menu with 40+ preset free disc menu templates. There are lots of interesting functions and users are able to customize DVD menu further by changing background image, adding background music and more.

How to convert PNG to ISO with Leawo DVD Creator

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Step 1: Download, install and launch Leawo DVD Creator and click “Blu-ray/DVD Creator” tab.

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Step 2: In the main interface, click Add Photo button to import photos or photo folders to create a photo slideshow video, which can also be done by directly dragging and dropping the image files to the interface. After all the desired images are inputted, a photo slideshow video of the photos would be created automatically in the video list. Then click the pencil-like icon on the video to edit the photo slideshow.

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Step 3: After entering the video editing panel, all loaded files are displayed as thumbnails below the video interface. Move your mouse onto one of the photos and you will see two icons on it. One is the "Rotate" button for rotating the photo and the other is the "Delete" button for deleting the photo from the video.

There is a plus button at the end of the photo list which allows you to add more photos from your computer to the video. You can customize the photo slideshow by adjusting Transition Effect, setting Photo Duration or Transition Duration. There are a lot of transition effects for you to choose. Just click Transition Effect drop-down menu and choose one suitable effect for the photos on the drop-down menu. Adjust photo duration by inputting a value between 1000 and 5000 (1000 here means 1 seconds and the same goes to Transition Duration) and adjust transition duration from 0 to 5000.

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Turn to the Audio section and click Add Music button in the middle to add music from your computer to the video as the background music. You can click the X button to delete the song you’ve imported and choose the sound effect you like from Fade In, Fade Out and Loop Play. You should note that if the length of the music is longer than the video, the exceeded part of the music would be cut off and won’t be played.

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Step 4: When the editing is done, click “OK” and you can come back to choose a DVD template. 40+ template designs will appear on the right column and users can choose the most suitable one and click the eye-like icon to preview it. For further customizing your DVD menu, get into the editor and change its content by editing the name of DVD menu, font size, font colour, etc. Besides, the background can be changed to an image or a video from your local files and you can also add a background music for it. After all settings are done, it can be saved as custom template for being used next time.

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Step 5: When the editing and settings for the photo slideshow video are finished, you are allowed to convert it to a DVD folder or an ISO file and save it to your hard drive or burn it to a blank writable disc by ticking the third option if you have inserted a blank writable disc into the CD-ROM. Here we should only tick ISO File. Also you can rename disc label and choose output path. Then click the round Burn button and wait for the burning progress to be done.

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Part 3: How to create ISO image from PNG files with Free ISO Create Wizard

About Free ISO Create Wizard

Free ISO Create Wizard can create ISO image from both existing files and folders. It supports virtually all file types like video, audio, graphic, compressed files like ZIP, RAR & 7Z, documents like PDF & Office files and countless more. Thus you can backup your important data and created the ISO files for ISO burning.

How to convert PNG to ISO with Free ISO Create Wizard

Step 1: Download, install and launch Free ISO Create Wizard and click “Browser” to specify an output name and folder.

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Step 2: Choose the name extension from ISO-9660 level 1 & 2 and ISO-9660 + Joliet UNICODE. Just check the "Create bootable disc" and click the "Browser" button to find and open the boot image files, and then a bootable disc is created.

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Step 3: You can click "Add Dir…" to add one or more folders to the list. All the files are in the list. You can create or rename a folder by using "New Dir…" or "Rename Dir…". You can also remove chosen folder or all folders by clicking Remove/Remove All button. Click Next to start creating and when the progress bar at the top shows successfully created, the image file will be saved in the install folder of Free ISO Create Wizard.

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Part 4: Comparison between Leawo DVD Creator and Free ISO Create Wizard

As we all know, with the help of ISO burners, we can create an ISO file from PNG files. By reading the shining points and editing steps of Leawo DVD Creator and Free ISO Create Wizard above, we can come to a conclusion that Leawo DVD Creator clearly has more powerful functions to handle the photo slideshows than Free ISO Create Wizard. Leawo DVD Creator allows users to edit the photo slideshow while Free ISO Create Wizard does not have the ability. With Leawo DVD Creator’s handy video editing tools, users are free to customize and edit the DVD video. You can adjust transition effect, set photo duration or transition duration of the photo slideshow as you like and after simple steps, a professional-looking DVD made by photos can be done. Meanwhile, Free ISO Create Wizard have some limitations of the video making functions while Leawo DVD Creator has many latest functions that most video creators do not have, which can fully meet the needs of video lovers. Finally, I would like to list a chart in order to let you know more details about the two products.

 

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Free ISO Create Wizard

ISO burning

DVD burning

Create photo slideshow

Rotate photos

Add background music

Set photo duration

Set transition duration

Preview video before burning

Adjust photo effects

Preset DVD menu templates

Customize DVD menu