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Program for contact sheets?
Jeff Frings, Photographer
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Milwaukee | WI | USA | Posted: 11:43 AM on 04.26.04 |
->> I'm looking for a program to make contact sheets of my digital photos, and ideally I'd like them to be about the size of a 35mm neg, and be able to have them spaced very close together on the sheet.
I have tried to do this with photoshop 5, (yes I'm still using a very old version) but was unable to get the thumbnails to be very close together, and didn't want to waste so much space.
Thanks in advance
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Zac Pagett, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Bowling Green | KY | USA | Posted: 11:45 AM on 04.26.04 |
| ->> Have you tried photo mechanic? I'm not sure about the spacing, I tend to print bigger previews on mine but I have been very happy with the results... |
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Frank Casimiro, Photographer
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Sugar Land (Houston Area) | TX | USA | Posted: 11:46 AM on 04.26.04 |
->> Jeff
I use BreezeBrowser for this when making proof sheets for clients. You can customize it to label the shots as desired. http://www.breezesys.com
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Eric Isaacs, Photographer
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Santa Barbara | CA | USA | Posted: 11:46 AM on 04.26.04 |
->> I'd strongly reccomend the upgrade to photoshop CS. It handles contact sheets well and so many other great features. They used to have a 30 free download trial of the full version, I assume they still do.
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Vincent Laforet, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 11:47 AM on 04.26.04 |
| ->> I'm very happy w/ Photo Mechanic - you can specify how many previews to a page - what text information you want printed if any - etc etc - very good results - you can print them on a laser printer - or on a photo paper on glossy paper - they look very good. |
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Jeff Frings, Photographer
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Milwaukee | WI | USA | Posted: 11:48 AM on 04.26.04 |
->> Eric,
Does the CS version allow you to set the spacing between photos on a contact sheet? I know that at least in my version you can't control that. |
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Eric Isaacs, Photographer
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Santa Barbara | CA | USA | Posted: 11:57 AM on 04.26.04 |
->> You can choose how many columns and how many rows as well as resolution. Also you can choose to let PS rotate for best fit or leave images at their current orientation. I can send you a screenshot of the control panel if you like, just let me know an email addy.
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Jeff Frings, Photographer
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Milwaukee | WI | USA | Posted: 12:02 PM on 04.26.04 |
->> Eric,
That sounds like the same controls PS 5 has. The only trouble is when I increase the number of columns and row, the size of the thumbnail gets smaller and the space between them stays the same. |
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Eric Isaacs, Photographer
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Santa Barbara | CA | USA | Posted: 12:05 PM on 04.26.04 |
->> Ah, guess I didn't understand that at first. I dont think you have specific control over the between image spacing. Hopefully one of the other suggestions will handle that for you.
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Jerry Laizure, Photographer, Assistant
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Norman | OK | USA | Posted: 1:11 PM on 04.26.04 |
| ->> Jeff, if you uncheck the "use captions as filename" box at the bottom of the Contact sheet window, the photos will be closer together on the page. Putting 6 photos on a row will be real close to a strip of 35mm film...... |
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Brian Jackson, Photographer, Photo Editor
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South San Francisco | CA | USA | Posted: 1:57 PM on 04.26.04 |
->> Are you looking for something like this: http://www.actionathletics.com/aa_examples/contactsheet.html
I'm porting the script to perl so it will be more flexable and easily adapted to all of those 'other' OS's :-D It uses ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org) as the backend processor.
Spacing between images(too a degree based on the tile structure of the thumbnails), background colors, placement of the title, font sizes, paper size (8x10, 8x12, 8.5x11), index name and extension, etc are all options that you can control.
I use the same program to create 35mm looking contactsheets as well as Medium Format looking ones. On my more recent ones, I've been setting the background color to black and the font to white (more like darkroom contacts) |
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Sam Santilli, Photographer
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Philippi | WV | USA | Posted: 2:05 PM on 04.26.04 |
| ->> Jeff, we use ACDsee6, which lets you control the spacing between pix. And you can use headers, footers, etc. Hope this helps, Sam |
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Alan Look, Photographer
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Bloomington | IL | United States | Posted: 3:42 PM on 04.26.04 |
->> If you want real control and don't care if it's a manual process, just use MS word or Excel. You'll have to doe verything manually, but you'll get the finished result you want.
It's good for a sheet or two, but I wouldn't suggest it for much more than that. The time you spend may not be worth it.
You might also check out Thumbsplus from www.cerious.com . I use it, but don't remember if it does contact sheets or if they are customizable... I also don't have the program in front of me right now... (wrong computer). |
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Nick Short, Photographer
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Gallup | NM | USA | Posted: 3:48 PM on 04.26.04 |
| ->> Iview multimedia. works fast, allows you to change the picture order and lets you create Quicktime movie presentations |
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Daniel Bersak, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Medford | MA | USA | Posted: 4:05 PM on 04.26.04 |
->> Jeff-
If you use a PC, try Irfanview:
http://www.irfanview.com
It's 100% free, you can control the size and spacing of the images, and you can have it automatically include any of the info attached to the image (anything from filenames and times to IPTC captions, to EXIF shooting data). I use it as my main image browser/batch captioner, and it's great to be able to spit out contact sheets with captions. Plus the price is right.
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Hassel Weems, Photographer
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Locust Grove (Atlanta) | GA | USA | Posted: 5:07 PM on 04.26.04 |
| ->> If running Windows XP, you can make a contact sheet by opening the folder, clicking "print pictures" in the task pane, a wizard will opne to select the pics you want, then the printer preferences, then select "contact sheet." |
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Trent Nelson, Photographer
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Salt Lake City | UT | USA | Posted: 7:18 PM on 04.26.04 |
| ->> iPhoto |
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Louis Lopez, Photographer
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Jon Ramirez, Photographer
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Red Bank | NJ | | Posted: 10:24 PM on 04.30.04 |
->> ACDS and Breezebrowser does not have a version for my mac !
besides photo shop and Photo mechanic what other contact sheet program is compatible........with Mac |
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