RE: Contact Sheet II in Photoshop 7.0.1
RE: Contact Sheet II in Photoshop 7.0.1
- Subject: RE: Contact Sheet II in Photoshop 7.0.1
- From: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 12:43:49 -0800
Photoshop will create a new series of documents, and laboriously copy and resize each document, then paste it into the new contact sheet page using your default profile conversion setup. You would then print the newly built contact sheet pages. This seems to be not a very efficient way of producing a contact sheet to me.
Other programs have much better and faster interfaces for producing contact sheets, but none I've found is ideal.
None of the others uses the Adobe color management engine, so getting for source to output may be more iffy in the ways that have been discussed in this forum many times.
But assuming that one can get a successful print using standard driver approaches for CM, and that the application recognizes embedded profiles and has some viable default mechanism for untagged files, what might other people recommend as there tool of choice for simply printing contact sheets with filenames for OS X?
And for a friend of mine who doesn't even care about spot-on color, and just wants to be able to EASILY print out contact sheets of his mostly unedited digital camera images -- with filenames -- to see what's worth going further with, what might you recommend even if the CM facilities are weak?
Assuming that I would want to be able to browse a folder of images, select some but not all of them, and print contact sheets with filenames, the flaws I've found with applications -- discounting CM issues, since I don't think any of these have control over untagged images -- that I'm aware of are as follows:
* iPhoto: No way to print the titles. (If there is some way, please let me know.)
* Graphic Converter: "Print Catalog..." does what's necessary, but you can only print the entire contents of a folder; no selection. "Browse Folder..." offers the interface for choice, but not the same printing parameters for grouping thumbnails onto a page.
* Extensis Portfolio: Will do the job, but only after creating a database of the desired images, which can be time-consuming.
* EXIF Viewer (OS 9): Does what is necessary, but only runs in Classic, has no color management at all, and has not been updated to OS X.
Thanks,
Rick Gordon
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On 3/24/04 at 12:48 PM -0500, <email@hidden> wrote in a message entitled
"Contact Sheet II in Photoshop 7.0.1":
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Hi all,
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I have a need to use the contact sheet function in Photoshop 7.0.1. Before
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I use this function, I want to know if the color will be handled correctly.
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I'm basically just pointing to a folder with about 80 CMYK images that I'm
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then going to send to a proofer.
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Thanks in advance,
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James Kober/Newsday
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