Printing a contact sheet

[Jeremy Roussak]

I need to print contact sheets of 20 or so images per page, with each image labelled with the title (the filename). Is there an easy way to do this in Lightroom, or indeed in Photoshop?

Any assistance gratefully received.

Jeremy

[pflower]

I do this all the time.  Although 20 images is somewhat more than I usually attempt on one page.  But using Lightroom on A3 paper you can set up a print template of 4 columns by 5 rows - that will give you 20 images at 2.4x3.2 inches.  Click on the "Print Info" option and choose the File Name option and you get the image name printed underneath.  Really easy - but I'm not sure that this is really what you want to do.

[Kwraber]

Jeremy, Photoshop has this feature built in.  Go to File Menu > Automate > Contact sheet II./. You can specify all aspects of what you are looking for.  BTW we need a catch up zoom call sometime soon.

[Jeremy Roussak]

Thanks, both. I really should look at the menus!

The organisation for which I'm providing the contact sheet suggests 20 or 25 images per sheet of A4 paper.

Jeremy

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

... The organisation for which I'm providing the contact sheet suggests 20 or 25 images per sheet of A4 paper.

Do you provide a magnifying glass with that? 

[rabanito]

 

Do you provide a magnifying glass with that? 

 

[fdisilvestro]

Well, that's larger than contact prints in the film era for 35mm.

[Rob C]

Well, that's larger than contact prints in the film era for 35mm.

Yep, and they were pretty useless to the untrained eye, and to the trained one without some kind of magnifier. Even then, it ended up with inspection of the paper’s grain. That was the crazy thing in Blow Up: the hero photographer looking for murder clues kept on magnifying detail by photographing closeups of big prints instead of simply enlarging the negative… sheesh.