Personalise contact sheet?

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Mark Bolton
Jan 26, 2004
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Hi all…I am begining to produce nice big contact sheets (A3) with PS7 to go with feature sets of digital images that I send out to various mags I do work for. What i want to do is personalise them…ie have name across the top with phone number etc, and then the name of the feature at the bottom. In the middle will be the thumbs. Ideally, i would have liked to produce these at different sizes, depending on the picture…perhaps a nice big shot in the middle, with the others ‘floating around’ the edge of the big one. The contact info is really the important bit though. Does anyone know of a way to do this? is there a 3rd party program that will do this, or is there a way to set up PS7 to do it? Thanks in advance, Mark

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Deco_time
Jan 26, 2004
Mark Bolton wrote:
Hi all…I am begining to produce nice big contact sheets (A3) with PS7 to go with feature sets of digital images that I send out to various mags I do work for. What i want to do is personalise them…ie have name across the top with phone number etc, and then the name of the feature at the bottom. In the middle will be the thumbs. Ideally, i would have liked to produce these at different sizes, depending on the picture…perhaps a nice big shot in the middle, with the others ‘floating around’ the edge of the big one. The contact info is really the important bit though. Does anyone know of a way to do this? is there a 3rd party program that will do this, or is there a way to set up PS7 to do it? Thanks in advance, Mark

XnView will do this and it’s free for non commercial use. Irfanview might also, but not sure. Don’t know if you can do that with PS 7 since I’m still on 6 and only used 7 or CS on friends computers; Beside, XnView is fast and easy so that’s what I use for contact sheet.
JK
JP Kabala
Jan 27, 2004
I don’t know this for sure, (I use a competitor product and mine will do this) but this sounds like something Photoshop Album ought to be able to do. Have you looked
at the freebie version at
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopalbum/startercompare. html

"Mark Bolton" wrote in message
Hi all…I am begining to produce nice big contact sheets (A3) with PS7 to go with feature sets of digital images that I send out to various mags I
do
work for. What i want to do is personalise them…ie have name across the top with phone number etc, and then the name of the feature at the bottom. In the middle will be the thumbs. Ideally, i would have liked to produce these at different sizes, depending on the picture…perhaps a nice big
shot
in the middle, with the others ‘floating around’ the edge of the big one. The contact info is really the important bit though. Does anyone know of a way to do this? is there a 3rd party program that will do this, or is
there
a way to set up PS7 to do it? Thanks in advance, Mark

L
llutton
Jan 27, 2004
Hi all…I am begining to produce nice big contact sheets (A3) with PS7 to go with feature sets of digital images that I send out to various mags I do work for. What i want to do is personalise them…ie have name across the top with phone number etc, and then the name of the feature at the bottom. In the middle will be the thumbs. Ideally, i would have liked to produce these at different sizes, depending on the picture…perhaps a nice big shot in the middle, with the others ‘floating around’ the edge of the big one. The contact info is really the important bit though. Does anyone know of a way to do this? is there a 3rd party program that will do this, or is there a way to set up PS7 to do it? Thanks in advance, Mark

I’m pretty sure youu can do this with PS7. Just File>Automate>Contact Sheet2. Then you Browse until you find the folder with your images, input the image sizes, etc., and the contact sheets are generated for you. You can move the images, change the sizes, and add text. You need to set up a folder with just the images you want on the contact sheet.
Lynn
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Warren Sarle
Jan 28, 2004
"LLutton" wrote in message
Hi all…I am begining to produce nice big contact sheets (A3) with PS7
to
go with feature sets of digital images that I send out to various mags I
do
work for. What i want to do is personalise them…ie have name across the top with phone number etc, and then the name of the feature at the
bottom.
In the middle will be the thumbs. Ideally, i would have liked to produce these at different sizes, depending on the picture…perhaps a nice big
shot
in the middle, with the others ‘floating around’ the edge of the big one. The contact info is really the important bit though. Does anyone know of
a
way to do this? is there a 3rd party program that will do this, or is
there
a way to set up PS7 to do it? Thanks in advance, Mark

I’m pretty sure youu can do this with PS7. Just File>Automate>Contact
Sheet2.
Then you Browse until you find the folder with your images, input the
image
sizes, etc., and the contact sheets are generated for you. You can move
the
images, change the sizes, and add text. You need to set up a folder with
just
the images you want on the contact sheet.
Lynn

Contact Sheet II will not add text other than file names, will not make images in different sizes, and will not use any arrangement other than a regular grid with lots of whitespace. If you need to do this more than once, Contact Sheet II is not the way to go.

If I had to do this, I’d write a Photoshop script, but that’s just because I’m a programmer and already know how to do it.
L
llutton
Jan 28, 2004
Hi all…I am begining to produce nice big contact sheets (A3) with PS7
to work for. What i want to do is personalise them…ie have name across the
top with phone number etc, and then the name of the feature at the
bottom.
In the middle will be the thumbs. Ideally, i would have liked to produce these at different sizes, depending on the picture…perhaps a nice big
shot in the middle, with the others ‘floating around’ the edge of the big one.
The contact info is really the important bit though. Does anyone know of
a way to do this? is there a 3rd party program that will do this, or is there a way to set up PS7 to do it? Thanks in advance, Mark
I’m pretty sure youu can do this with PS7. Just File>Automate>Contact
Sheet2.
Then you Browse until you find the folder with your images, input the
image
sizes, etc., and the contact sheets are generated for you. You can move
the
images, change the sizes, and add text. You need to set up a folder with
just
the images you want on the contact sheet.
Lynn

Contact Sheet II will not add text other than file names, will not make images in different sizes, and will not use any arrangement other than a regular grid with lots of whitespace. If you need to do this more than once, Contact Sheet II is not the way to go.

If I had to do this, I’d write a Photoshop script, but that’s just because I’m a programmer and already know how to do it.

I’m sorry, but I just did it. I can add my own text after the contact sheet is generated. I can move or change the size of one or more images. Warren, are you using PS7?
Lynn
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Terry
Jan 29, 2004
Make an action for what the Contact Sheet II doesn’t do. Then you have automate make the contact sheet, then click on your action to throw in the test that you want. You might be able to make an action out of the whole process, but not sure about that.


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"JP Kabala" wrote in message
I don’t know this for sure, (I use a competitor product and mine will do this) but this sounds like something Photoshop Album ought to be able to do. Have you looked
at the freebie version at
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopalbum/startercompare. html
"Mark Bolton" wrote in message
Hi all…I am begining to produce nice big contact sheets (A3) with PS7
to
go with feature sets of digital images that I send out to various mags I
do
work for. What i want to do is personalise them…ie have name across
the
top with phone number etc, and then the name of the feature at the
bottom.
In the middle will be the thumbs. Ideally, i would have liked to produce these at different sizes, depending on the picture…perhaps a nice big
shot
in the middle, with the others ‘floating around’ the edge of the big
one.
The contact info is really the important bit though. Does anyone know of
a
way to do this? is there a 3rd party program that will do this, or is
there
a way to set up PS7 to do it? Thanks in advance, Mark

N
neon
Jan 31, 2004
Did you try File > automate > picture package? There are a bunch of different layouts available and you can add text layers. The dialog box can be a little confusing at first. You can pick & choose the images and even mix file types (.psd .jpg .tif) on the same layout.
"Mark Bolton" wrote in message
Hi all…I am begining to produce nice big contact sheets (A3) with PS7 to go with feature sets of digital images that I send out to various mags I
do
work for. What i want to do is personalise them…ie have name across the top with phone number etc, and then the name of the feature at the bottom. In the middle will be the thumbs. Ideally, i would have liked to produce these at different sizes, depending on the picture…perhaps a nice big
shot
in the middle, with the others ‘floating around’ the edge of the big one. The contact info is really the important bit though. Does anyone know of a way to do this? is there a 3rd party program that will do this, or is
there
a way to set up PS7 to do it? Thanks in advance, Mark

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