Printing Contact Sheets

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  1. booblanco

    booblanco Active Member

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    I'm trying to print about 200 thumbnails of large images to about 4 to 5 letter-size pages and I'd like the filenames to be displayed as well.

    How can I use iPhoto to do this? If it can't, what's a good app that can do this for me? I used to make contact prints like these when I was using WinXP's ImageViewer. How can I do the same on a Mac?

    Thanks.
     
  2. paparazzi

    paparazzi Well-Known Member

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    If you have Photoshop CS you can print contact sheets from within the program. I think even Photoshop 7 has this but I'm not quite sure on that.

    File -> Automate -> Create Contact Sheet

    HTH
     
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    Thanks paparazzi. It works, but CS' contact sheet process is giving my iBook a real workout.

    Are there any other faster ways to do this?
     
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    I believe iPhoto has a contact print option in the export dialog. Graphic Converter can print a catalog as well.
     
  5. paparazzi

    paparazzi Well-Known Member

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    @booblanco:

    I did a little test for you. I loaded up 85 JPEGs as-shot by a 20D (8MP) into iView Media Pro 3. It took less than a minute for iView to create a catalog file for the 85 pictures. Then, I ran the Make Contact Sheet feature of iView to produce 8 contact sheets of 12 thumbnails per sheet. The contact sheet dimensions I chose were 11 x 8.5

    Guess how long it took? Less than ten seconds. I didn't try printing the sheets though, but on screen they looked fine.

    Maybe you should give it a try.

    HTH.

    ADD:

    I did the same thing in Graphic Converter, took about four minutes.

    The first sheet below was generated by iView, the second by Graphic Conveter.



    [Edited on 11-21-2005 by paparazzi]
     
  6. paparazzi

    paparazzi Well-Known Member

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    Can't attach two files in one post. Here is the one generated by Graphic Converter:
     
  7. booblanco

    booblanco Active Member

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    Ok! iView Media Pro IS fast and highly customizable. Thanks!
    :)

    [Edited on 11-21-2005 by booblanco]
     

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