I have chosen Selected Photos for control over the images I want on the contact sheet.
This is right above the bottom filmstrip. Choose an option from the drop-down menu on the toolbar. You can control which images appear in the contact sheet. You can see this in the Preview panel, right above the Template Browser. Keep in mind that a “landscape” template will be best suited to landscape-oriented images.Īlso, note that Lightroom shows you a preview of layout of the template. In the image above I have chosen 4×6, so I have 4 columns and 6 rows of images. This actually doesn’t refer to the size of the print but to the number of columns and rows in the contact sheet. For example, a 4×4 contact sheet or 5×9 contact sheet etc. Lightroom gives you several options for different sizes of contact sheets. These will appear in the section underneath the Lightroom Templates in the panel. You can also create your own custom templates and save them as User Templates. These Lightroom templates come with the program. In the print module, you’ll see the Template Browser panel on the far left of your Lightroom workspace.Ĭlick the small triangle next to the panel title to expand it. To do this, hit Alt+Cmd+6 (Mac) or Alt+Ctrl+6 (Windows). Once you have chosen your images, switch from the Library module to the Print module.
You can also search by date, camera, lens, and many other options from a series of drop-down menus at the top of the panel. This will help you find certain types of images at a later date. I recommend that when you upload or edit your images, you always input a few key words. You can search by Text, Attribute, or Metadata.įor example, I searched for all the images I had with the key word “cabbage” in the metadata. When you are in the Library module, click on G for Grid View.Īt the top of the panel you can choose the parameters by which you want to search. You can even use certain search criteria in Lightroom. You can choose images that you have in a folder, or saved as a Smart Collection. To get started creating a contact sheet, you need to choose the photos that you want to include on the contact sheet.
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Now select it and untick the ‘fit picture to frame’ box, unless you want all your images to be the same size.įinally, under the printer section at the top, select the Microsoft Print to PDF button and then press print which will allow you to save it as a PDF. Next, scroll down on the left-hand side until you find the Contact Sheet (35) button. To start with highlight the images by holding down the shift button, then right click on one of the images and press the print button. However, you cannot control how many thumbnails you would like along the columns and rows as this is pre-set to 5 columns and 7 rows. Now this method equally as easy (if not easier) and only requires the picture folder within Windows. It may take a while to render all the images but once Photoshop has produced the contact sheet you can save the contact sheets by pressing File > Save and saving them as a JPEG or whichever file you prefer. Select the pixel/cm width and height you would like and make sure you select how many thumbnails you would like in the columns and rows. Now press choose and select the folder which houses your images. Now open Adobe Photoshop and press File > Automate > Contact sheet II. Start by making a folder of the images that you want to be included within the contact sheet. Instead of the photographer proofing over the images.Ī contact sheet can be created within Photoshop or Windows. Now a day’s photographers and wedding photographers use contact sheets, with the file name being the image caption, as a reference tool. It was also used a reference, showing each photograph with a name/number so the photographer knows which image the clients would like you to produce. Traditionally contact sheets were used as a way to show proofs of your work to your clients.