The Contact Sheet II command automatically generates a thumbnail preview document. This feature can be helpful when trying to decide which images to use in a print layout. To access the Contact Sheet II dialog box, choose File --> Automate --> Contact Sheet II. At the top of Contact Sheet II dialog box is a Source Images: Use list. The option that you choose from this list tells Photoshop where to access the images to include in the contact sheet:
- To generate a contact sheet from images that are currently open in Photoshop, choose Current Open Documents from the Source Images: Use list.
- You can also generate a contact sheet directly from Bridge. To do so, you must first select the images that you’d like to include by F/Ctrl+clicking them in Bridge, and then choose Tools --> Photoshop --> Contact Sheet II. Bridge then takes you into Photoshop, where the Contact Sheet II dialog box is displayed. Photoshop automatically chooses the Selected Images From Bridge option in the Source Images: Use list.
- If the images are located in a folder somewhere on your system, select Folder from the Source Images: Use list. Note that Photoshop will include every image in the folder; therefore, if the folder contains additional images that you do not want to appear in the contact sheet, you should remove them from the folder before applying the Contact Sheet II command.
When working with a source folder, click the Choose button to open the Select Image Directory dialog box, and browse to the folder on your system. Enable the Include All Subfolders option if there are subfolders of images in the source folder that you’d like to include in the contact sheet. In the Document section of the Contact Sheet II dialog box, specify a width, height, resolution, and mode for the contact sheet document. You should choose these settings based on how you intend to print the document after it is generated. In the Thumbnails section, choose whether to place the thumbnails horizontally or vertically from the Place list. Specify the number of columns and rows in the fields provided. To add filenames as captions, enable the Use Filename As Caption option located at the bottom of the Contact Sheet II dialog box. You can specify a font and size to use from the lists provided. You should definitely include filenames when creating a contact sheet. Doing so makes it much easier to locate the images that you decide to work with in your print layout. The downside to this is that when including filenames as captions, Photoshop generates smaller image thumbnails to accommodate for the added text. Additionally, Photoshop does not like long filenames and truncates them as a result. To make this less of a problem, choose a smaller font size for the captions. After all the contact sheet information is entered in the Contact Sheet II dialog box, click OK to generate the document. Note that the more images you choose to include in the document, the longer it takes to generate. If you happened to choose more images than will fit on a single page when using the Document and Thumbnails settings specified, Photoshop generates as many documents as necessary to display them all.
- To generate a contact sheet from images that are currently open in Photoshop, choose Current Open Documents from the Source Images: Use list.
- You can also generate a contact sheet directly from Bridge. To do so, you must first select the images that you’d like to include by F/Ctrl+clicking them in Bridge, and then choose Tools --> Photoshop --> Contact Sheet II. Bridge then takes you into Photoshop, where the Contact Sheet II dialog box is displayed. Photoshop automatically chooses the Selected Images From Bridge option in the Source Images: Use list.
- If the images are located in a folder somewhere on your system, select Folder from the Source Images: Use list. Note that Photoshop will include every image in the folder; therefore, if the folder contains additional images that you do not want to appear in the contact sheet, you should remove them from the folder before applying the Contact Sheet II command.
When working with a source folder, click the Choose button to open the Select Image Directory dialog box, and browse to the folder on your system. Enable the Include All Subfolders option if there are subfolders of images in the source folder that you’d like to include in the contact sheet. In the Document section of the Contact Sheet II dialog box, specify a width, height, resolution, and mode for the contact sheet document. You should choose these settings based on how you intend to print the document after it is generated. In the Thumbnails section, choose whether to place the thumbnails horizontally or vertically from the Place list. Specify the number of columns and rows in the fields provided. To add filenames as captions, enable the Use Filename As Caption option located at the bottom of the Contact Sheet II dialog box. You can specify a font and size to use from the lists provided. You should definitely include filenames when creating a contact sheet. Doing so makes it much easier to locate the images that you decide to work with in your print layout. The downside to this is that when including filenames as captions, Photoshop generates smaller image thumbnails to accommodate for the added text. Additionally, Photoshop does not like long filenames and truncates them as a result. To make this less of a problem, choose a smaller font size for the captions. After all the contact sheet information is entered in the Contact Sheet II dialog box, click OK to generate the document. Note that the more images you choose to include in the document, the longer it takes to generate. If you happened to choose more images than will fit on a single page when using the Document and Thumbnails settings specified, Photoshop generates as many documents as necessary to display them all.
Creating a Contact Sheet in Photoshop
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