Adobe Photoshop CS6 Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks by Lynette Kent

MAKE A CONTACT SHEET of your photos
Whether you use photos from a digital camera or
scans of traditional prints and negatives, the first file
downloaded or scanned is the original. You should
always keep a duplicate set of the original photos on a
separate hard drive or burn a CD or DVD before
enhancing or using the photos in projects. You can
create and print a contact sheet that fits a CD or DVD
case or any other size, to help you identify and keep
track of the images on the external drive or other
media using the Contact Sheet II Automation in
Photoshop CS6. You can also create a photo index of
all the images in one project folder to help you identify
and catalog groups of images using the same steps.
In the Contact Sheet II dialog box, you select the
source files, the document size, the number of
columns and rows, and amount of spacing. You can
add the filenames as captions and select the font and
size. You can even save your settings as a custom
contact sheet and apply it to different folders of
images.
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Note: This task creates a contact
sheet to fit inside a CD or DVD
jewel case.
1 Click File.
2 Click Automate.
3 Click Contact Sheet II.
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The Contact Sheet II dialog box
appears.
4 Click Browse to select the files.
5 In the Open dialog box that
appears, Shift+click the images to
select them.
6 Click Open.
Note: You can optionally click
Files ➪ Folder. Then click Choose
and navigate to the folder of
images.
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