# Visual etching tool for optical discs

Disc Image Studio is a cross-platform disc image creation and burning tool that allows you to etch naked-eye visible images onto the surface of DVDs, CDs, and single-layer Blu-ray discs. Developed in C#, this software enables you to process custom graphics onto the disc surface using any writable optical drive.

- ★ 7,904
- C#
- GitHub Trending · 2026-11-05

## Updates

- **November 7, 2026:** Stars 7,405 → 7,904, latest release v1.5.0 (November 7, 2026).
- **November 6, 2026:** Stars 6,867 → 7,405, latest release v1.4.2 (November 5, 2026).
- **November 5, 2026:** Stars 6,777 → 6,867, latest release v1.4.1 (November 5, 2026).
- **November 5, 2026:** Stars 6,769 → 6,777, latest release v1.4.0 (November 4, 2026).

## What you get

- Etches custom graphics visible to the naked eye onto the surface of DVD, CD, and Blu-ray discs.
- Offers advanced image processing and shading tools to create patterns on the disc surface.
- Features a cross-platform architecture capable of running on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

## Running it

**Launch command line interface**

```
dotnet run --project src/DiscImageStudio.Cli -c Release -- --help
```

## If you don't write code

Paste this into your AI agent (Claude Code · Codex · Antigravity)

I want to etch visible patterns onto my optical discs using the DiscImageStudio tool. To start the command line interface required to run this tool, I need to use the command dotnet run --project src/DiscImageStudio.Cli -c Release -- --help. Please help me perform this action.

Repository: https://github.com/JiaFeiMiao-K-Cat/DiscImageStudio. Follow the official instructions in the README of this repository for setup and execution.

Before starting, check which OS we are on and if the necessary tools (e.g., Python, Node.js, Git, Docker) are installed. Install any missing ones step-by-step according to this system.

Create a new, empty folder to work in. Do not touch any files outside this folder and do not delete anything. Tell me what you are going to do in one sentence before running each command.

Tell me what I should see on the screen at the end of each step. If an error occurs, I will paste the error message to you exactly as it is, and we will fix it together.

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- **Who it is for:** Designed for enthusiast users who want to process physical patterns or images onto their own optical discs.
- **License:** GPL-3.0

## Links

- [GitHub repository →](https://github.com/JiaFeiMiao-K-Cat/DiscImageStudio)
- [Read in Turkish →](https://trescout.com/discover/discimagestudio/)

TreScout did not build this tool · we found it in GitHub trends and wrote it up. This page describes the repository as of 2026-11-05: The star count and our text belong to that day, the repository may have changed since. Check the repository link for the current state. The introductory text was prepared with AI from the repository's own documentation, and this page was **machine-translated** from the Turkish original · the Turkish version prevails.

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Source: TreScout Discover · https://trescout.com/en/discover/discimagestudio/