How to Make a Contact Sheet in Photoshop
A contact sheet is an image that traditionally contains the negative images of an entire roll of film. Photographers used such sheets to index prints or as a proof page to decide which prints to enlarge. With digital photography, the traditional method of creating a contact sheet is unnecessary. You can use Adobe Photoshop to create a contact sheet of whatever images you choose. That contact sheet can be used to allow a client to choose which prints she wants to buy, or as a tool to remind you of what photos were taken on a particular date or at a specific event.
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Instructions
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Organize the images you want to appear on the contact sheet in a single folder on your hard drive.
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Launch Adobe Photoshop.
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Click "File" and place your mouse cursor over "Automate." Select "Contact Sheet II" from the menu that appears.
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Click on the drop-down menu next to "Sources" and select "Folder." Click "Browse" and select the folder that contains the images you want in your contact sheet.
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Customize your contact sheet with the Document and Thumbnails options. The default settings are to create an 8-by-10 sheet in RGB mode. You can change the size of your sheet, the resolution, the color mode and the way you want the thumbnails to be arranged. You can also choose whether to include the image name as a caption.
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Press "OK" to create your contact sheet. This can take several minutes, depending on how many images you are using. Click "File" and "Save" to save the contact sheet to your hard drive.
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