Contact Sheet II


As its name suggests, Contact Sheet II builds virtual contact sheetspages full of image thumbnails. The contact sheets are built as unsaved Photoshop documents, with a choice to create either a flat file or a layered one with each image (and each image's caption, if included) on a separate layer. Figure 9-11 shows the Contact Sheet II dialog box.

Figure 9-11. Contact Sheet II


The Source Images section of the dialog box lets you choose the images for the contact sheetin this workflow, you'd use Selected Images from Bridge. The Document section lets you set the size, resolution, and color mode for the contact sheet. (The color is converted to the current working space for the selected color mode.) The Flatten All Layers checkbox, when checked, creates a flat file, and when unchecked, creates a layered file with each thumbnail and each caption on a separate layerhandy if you want to fine-tune the layout in Photoshop.

The Thumbnails section lets you control the size of the thumbnails by specifying how many rows and columns the contact sheet will contain. The page mockup underneath the main buttons shows the layout, and the readout underneath it shows the maximum dimensions of each thumbnail. The Rotate For Best Fit checkbox rotates verticals to horizontal to make bigger thumbnails in the available space. Finally, the Use Filename As Caption checkbox does exactly what it saysit adds the filename as a caption for each thumbnail in your chosen font and size. Figure 9-12 shows a contact sheet generated by Contact Sheet II.

Figure 9-12. Contact sheet


Once the contact sheets are open in Photoshop, you can save or print them just as you would any other Photoshop document.



Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS2 Industrial-Strength Production Techniques
Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS2 Industrial-Strength Production Techniques
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Year: 2006
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