Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To, and today I'm going to show you how to make a
contact sheet in Adobe Photoshop. All right, let's get started. Ok, so I'm here in Photoshop,
and I'm using Photoshop 2021. So if you have an older version of Photoshop, I've heard that
they took the contact sheet thing out for a while, and then they added it back in. But if you have
the most recent version of Photoshop, it should be in there. Ok, so let's go up to File>Automate, and
>Contact Sheet II. And when we open this, we'll get a dialog box. Now it's going to ask us where
our source images are going to be located and what to use. So I'm going to have it use a folder, but
I have a few options: Files, Folder and Bridge. Usually, what I do is I just stick all the images
that I want in there in a folder, and now we'll choose what folder it is. I have mine pointing to
some photos that I took the other day. So we'll open those. So we're ready to go on the source
image part. Now we're going to come down here to the Document section. And this is how we want the
contact sheet to turn out. So I'm going to leave it inches here. And then for the width and height,
I like to do 8 by 10. Now whatever you choose here, it is going to make it pretty much exactly
that size. So if you want a little margin around the edge, you might make this a little
smaller than your sheet. My sheet is going to be 8 1/2 by 11 inches. So this will work perfectly.
We want it to be 300 resolution, because I want to print these out and look at them physically.
And I like to leave it at 300 because if you put it at 72, they're going to be pretty blurry
at that super small size. I'll leave my Color Profile at sRGB. And then we have the option of
flattening all the layers. So this is going to put all of the images and all the texts that it makes
in the contact sheet on one layer. I want to have a little more flexibility over that. And I can
always do it after the contact sheet's been made. Ok, our Mode is going to be RGB and the Bit Depth
will be 8-bit. So this is your document itself. And now we'll move on to the thumbnails area.
So it's going to ask us how we want Photoshop to place these images. Is it going to go across first
like this, or is it going to go down first? I like to have it across first because it feels like it
makes sense because that's the way we read. I'm going to have 5 columns and 6 rows. And
I'm going to leave it at Auto-Spacing, although you can change the spacing here. If you make your
spacing kind of big, it'll knock the last image down to the next row. So it'll still use all the
images even if it has a lot of space in between. Now usually I want all my photos right side up. So
I don't check this, but for this tutorial, I'm going to leave this checked because it makes it
look a lot more uniform. It just looks a lot nicer if they're rotated all the same way. Now this
contact sheet is going to use our file name as the caption. And we can choose what font we want. And
I'm going to leave this at Montserrat Bold. I can also change the size right here. Ok, so that's it.
And so now I'll hit OK. Now this is going to take a little bit of time, but it'll basically
run through and put every single photo onto the sheet and the name of the photo beneath it.
And you can see it's placing them on all the different layers here. And I'll just speed
the video up so you don't just sit through it. It does take some time. Now once Photoshop is
finished with one sheet, it will actually create a new document and do the next set of images. Ok,
and it's done. So it looks like we have 38 images. We've got 30 on this page, and then 8 on this one.
So now I can just go ahead and select all my texts from this part and move it down if I want to.
The reason I'm able to do that is because they're on separate layers. So if I wanted to move these
down, I could just do that. I'm holding CMD or CTRL and then just drawing a box around these
with the Move tool selected. And I do not have Auto Select layer on, but if I hold CMD or CTRL,
it toggles it on. So as you can see, it puts it right at the edge of the 8 by 10. I can hit OPT
CMD C or ALT CTRL C on a PC, and then change to inches and make it 8 1/2 by 11. And that will give
me a nice little margin around everything. And then when I'm done with everything,
I can select all the layers with OPT CMD A ...ALT CTRL A on a PC...and then just flatten them into
one layer if I want to. And then I can just go to File>Export>Export As and choose JPEG.
And we'll export and then we can just go ahead and print this. So it's that easy to make a contact
sheet in Adobe Photoshop. All right, if you liked this video and you want to see more videos like
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