Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
For reasons known only to a secret society of Adobe engineers (who meet in
underground catacombs buried deep below Adobe's headquarters and lit solely
by torches), they chose to remove the Contact Sheet feature from the previous
(Yup, It's Back!)
version of Photoshop (CS5). I guess they assumed we'd use the PDF Contact Sheet
in Bridge, which can only mean they never actually tried it themselves. Thankfully,
after the public stormed Adobe's headquarters with axes and pitchforks, they
brought Contact Sheet II back in CS6, and the balance of power has been
restored to the kingdom. Here's how to unleash its wrath:
Step One:
To launch Contac t Sheet II (the II par t
comes from the fact that this is the sec-
ond version of this automated script, a
big improvement over the first one. But,
honestly when I heard Adobe was bring-
ing this back, I was hoping for Contact
Sheet III. Sigh), go under the File menu,
under Automate, and choose
Contact
Sheet II
(as shown here).
Step Two:
This brings up the Contact Sheet II
dialog, where you get to choose how
your contact sheet will look. You start
at the top by clicking on the Choose
button and selecting which folder of
images you want to create a contact
sheet of. In the next section down, Doc-
ument, you get to choose the size and
resolution of your contact sheet. In our
example, we're going to make a wide
10x8" sheet at a resolution of 240 ppi
(pretty standard resolution for a color
inkjet printer). I always leave the Flatten
All Layers checkbox turned on, so when
it's done I'm not looking in my Layers
panel and seeing 36 different layers,
and that's pretty much what you'll get
if you choose not to flatten all layers.
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