Contact sheet

[sGu]

I need to compile a contact sheet with my work to present to clients and also for my portfolio, is there any difference between those two?

How many images usually within a contact sheet? what size for images and what size for the sheet? Any other suggestions are welcome, such as dpi, image size, etc.

TIA!

[NGrinerPhoto]

in Photoshop, go to File - Automate - Contact Sheet II

first - pick your height, width and resolution - this all depends on your output - I make them 8x10 @ 300 then save the file and have my lab print an 8x10 for me

second - pick your columns and rows - if you have to many, they get hard to see

experiment with a few and see what works best for you

-nick

[sGu]

thanks, i'm giving it a go now

[Ogrt48]

Oh wow, thanks. I just tried that out and it's really awesome. ^_^

[robertwgross]

In the old days, a contact sheet was a page of positive images produced directly from negatives. In other words, the images were exactly the same size as the original negatives, probably 35mm, or 36x24mm.

Now, you probably are not using film, and you are using digital. Fine. Many of the programs will space out your contact "positives" just like they were done in the old film days. The difference here is that the program can often allow for a title or comments or frame number or similar information.

Some folks don't like contact prints so crowded onto a page. Fine. Some programs will allow spacing just about any way you want. Since it is a tool for work in progress, generally you space them about twenty to a page.

---Bob Gross---

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In the old days, a contact sheet was a page of positive images produced directly from negatives.

Yes, in ancient times. You know, those legendary days, about which the bards tell in song and story. When dinosaurs roamed the Earth, in their pre-petroleum form.

Like, way back in 1997.

I mean, sure, digital's come on strong, but to hear you speak of "the old days," one would think that few can remember back to film's heyday. :)