Digital Photography Workflow - Contact Sheet II

Adobe Bridge and Photoshop can create digital Contact Sheets of your files. In this class, we will create contact sheets of our RAW unedited images as follows:

1.) go to the appropriate folder that holds your RAW files

2.) select six (6) consecutive files at a time
     a.) click once on the first file, hold down the shift key, and then click on the last needed file to select all of the files in a row
     b.) click once on the first file, hold down the command key, and then click on files anywhere in the folder in order to be able to skip around and select files not in order

3.) after selecting your six files, go to Tools in the toolbar, pull down to Photoshop, and across to Contact Sheet II,which will open up Photoshop

4.) in the window that opens, check the following:
     a.) Source Images should say Bridge and across from Use: '6 files selected'
     b.) Units: inches
     c.) make sure Flatten All Layers is checked
     d.) Width: 8
     e.) Mode: RGB Color
     f.) Height: 10
     g.) Bit Depth: 8-bit
     h.) Resolution: 72 pixels/inch
     i.) Color Profile: sRGB IEC61966-2.1
     j.) Place: across first
     k.) Use Auto-Spacing is checked
     l.) Columns: 2
     m.) Rows: 3
     n.) Rotate For Best Fit is NOT checked
     o.) Use Filename as Caption is NOT checked

5.) click OK at the top right hand of the window and Photoshop will create the Contact Sheet

6.) once the Contact Sheet appears
     a.) go to Layer in the Toolbar and pull down to Flatten Layers
     b.) go to File in the Toolbar and pull down to Save As, select the place you want the file to save to from the side bar on the left hand side, select JPEG from the Format: dropdown menu, make sure Embed Color Profile is checked, and click Save

7.) Repeat as needed for your remaining files