Creating contact sheets

By displaying a series of thumbnail previews on a single page, contact sheets let you easily preview and catalog groups of images. You can automatically create and place thumbnails on a page using the Contact Sheet command.

Note: Make sure that the images are closed before applying this command.

To create a contact sheet:

1. Choose File > Print Layouts > Contact Sheet.
2. Click Browse (Windows) or Choose (Mac OS) to specify the folder containing the images you want to use. Select Include All Subfolders to include images inside any subfolders of the chosen folder.
3. Under Document, specify the dimensions, resolution, and color mode for the contact sheet, using the menus to specify measurement units.
4. Under Thumbnails, specify layout options for the thumbnail previews:
• For Place, choose whether to arrange thumbnails across first (from left to right, then top to bottom) or down first (from top to bottom, then left to right).
• Enter the number of columns and rows that you want per contact sheet. The maximum dimensions for each thumbnail are displayed to the right, along with a visual preview of the specified layout.
• Select Use Filename As Caption to label the thumbnails using their source image filenames. Use the menu to specify a caption font.
5. Click OK to create the contact sheet.