anerjee
Well-known
Looking for some suggestions or creative ideas to create digital contact sheets.
After shooting, I process and scan each roll into a separate folder. I have 500+ such folders, and looking for a specific image is becoming hard, despite diligent Keywording. My main tool is Lightroom.
So I was wondering how to create a digital contact sheet -- 1 picture per folder containing all files in the folder, like a contact sheet. The individual pics should have sufficient resolution for me recognize one while viewing the entire sheet. I'm hoping this can make the pics more traceable.
Lightroom has a way to do contact sheets, but it is manual and laborious. Does anyone have a better method?
After shooting, I process and scan each roll into a separate folder. I have 500+ such folders, and looking for a specific image is becoming hard, despite diligent Keywording. My main tool is Lightroom.
So I was wondering how to create a digital contact sheet -- 1 picture per folder containing all files in the folder, like a contact sheet. The individual pics should have sufficient resolution for me recognize one while viewing the entire sheet. I'm hoping this can make the pics more traceable.
Lightroom has a way to do contact sheets, but it is manual and laborious. Does anyone have a better method?
Vince Lupo
Whatever
Have you tried Adobe Bridge? Whenever a client asks me to do a contact sheet, I use Bridge. Very easy, and you can scale up or down the size of the image, how many to a page etc.
x-ray
Veteran
Bridge is ok but Qimage is the best I've seen. It's a RIP software and quite cheap. Unfortunately it's only for Windows. I normally run Mac's in my work but keep an old XP windows machine to run my printers and have Qimage on it. I see no reason it wouldn't run on a Mac using boot camp or parallels and windows.
Photo_Smith
Well-known
I use Bridge or contact sheet II in Photoshop; you might have to download the latter from Adobe, as in their wisdom it isn't included in the install.
anerjee
Well-known
Thanks, Contact Sheet II seems to be the ticket. The other option is to use a ImageMagick script, but that seems not straightforward.
robert blu
quiet photographer
I do not find LR so laborious once you have prepared in the develop modul a preset and save it for future use. I made a preset with three column and 6 row (18 pictures) and on two pages I have a complete roll. Of course it is easier when you use LR and all your photos (scans) are imported in it. Just my idea, regards.
robert
robert