[Leica] Digital contacs :-(

[abridge at dcn.org (Adam Bridge)]

On Wednesday, May 12, 2004 Ted Grant thoughtfully wrote:

>C'mon guys this is helpful if I knew what the heck to click on and how the
>sheets should be set-up.
>
>ted

Easy-peasy lemon-squeasy Ted.

Use the Photoshop Browser to either bring up the folder you want to use for
contact prints or select some of the images.

Under the File Menu choose Automate and then Contact Sheet II...

That will bring up a dialog box that will let you choose the organization of
your contact sheet.

At the top you choose your Source images and you can either use the images in a
folder (and optionally all the subfolders within it) or the images you selected
in the File Browser before you brought up the Contact Sheet II dialog. 

Then  you get to select what sort of document you want to create. You select the
units you want to specify (inches, mm, pixels for example) and then the width
and height of the contact sheet plus the resolution and if you want it in color
(choose RGB, or Lab, or CMYK) or B&W. 

So, for example, you can chose to make an 8 x 10 in contact sheet at 300 dpi in
B&W.

Then you can select how you want the thumbnails to be placed. If you want to
emulate a strip of negatives you select Place: across first, let Photoshop use
Auto-Spacing, and then tell it 5 columns and 7 rows.

And finally you can select the font and size of the filename caption (or turn it
off).

And there you are.

Click OK and Photoshop will build your contact sheet before your eyes. The
faster your computer the faster it goes. My Mac G4/1.4 GHz/MP is just about fast
enough to make it endureable.

Hope this helps, Ted.

Adam