manually place thumbnails on 8 1/2 X 11 sheet

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How do I manually place a number of Thumbnail photos on a paper sheet in rows and columns, in Photoshop CS.
thank you gda
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Martin
Jan 18, 2010
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jjs
Jan 18, 2010
Run an action that reduces all the pictures to the size necessary to fit them on one sheet of paper. (File – Automate – Fit Image).

Create a new document (File-New) of the proof sheet page.

Open each thumbnail, and DRAG them one-by-one onto the contact sheet. Don’t worry about being very accurate with placement.

Finally, use Layers – Align on each group (row) then each column. Everything snaps into place.

This is a little faster than snapping to guides.
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bobert
Jan 25, 2010
In article <8MK4n.8016$>, "G. De Angelis" wrote:

How do I manually place a number of Thumbnail photos on a paper sheet in rows and columns, in Photoshop CS.
thank you gda

Use the contact sheet maker found in File >>Automate >> Contact Sheet . You can set the no of rows, and columns. Check the Use File name option and this will put the file name under the thumbnail.
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Bobert
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tony cooper
Jan 25, 2010
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:18:20 -0800, bobert
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In article <8MK4n.8016$>, "G. De Angelis" wrote:

How do I manually place a number of Thumbnail photos on a paper sheet in rows and columns, in Photoshop CS.
thank you gda

Use the contact sheet maker found in File >>Automate >> Contact Sheet . You can set the no of rows, and columns. Check the Use File name option and this will put the file name under the thumbnail.

If the OP has CS, that might still be an option. In CS4, though, it is not. I don’t know where along the line PS dropped this feature. It was there in 7.0, but not there when I jumped to CS4.

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Tony Cooper – Orlando, Florida
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bobert
Jan 25, 2010
In article ,
tony cooper wrote:

If the OP has CS, that might still be an option. In CS4, though, it is not. I don’t know where along the line PS dropped this feature. It was there in 7.0, but not there when I jumped to CS4.

For CS4 they moved it to bridge. I’ve not been able to divine the procedure to use it. I have no experience with Bridge, and the learning curve is not something I want to tackle.

Dumb move IMO.

I keep a copy of CS handy just for Contact Sheets
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Bobert
In Central California
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Mike Russell
Jan 26, 2010
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:05:44 -0500, tony cooper wrote:

[re contact sheet]
If the OP has CS, that might still be an option. In CS4, though, it is not. I don’t know where along the line PS dropped this feature. It was there in 7.0, but not there when I jumped to CS4.

The feature is no longer installed by default in CS4. It is available as an automation script in the Goodies folder.
Goodies\Optional plug-ins\Plug-ins 32-bit\Automate\ContactSheetII.8LI Goodies\Optional plug-ins\Plug-ins 32-bit\Automate\WebContactSheetII.8LI

It was dropped from CS4 because the functionality is duplicated, and improved on, in Bridge.

The OP’s question was how to do this manually, though, not with a script. For that I would lay out guides in a grid configuration, then drag and scale individual images to the contact sheet.
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