Printing Multiple Images (Mac Only)

If you have a Mac, consider yourself lucky. You have many more options for printing multiple photos than your Windows counterparts do. Elements makes it very easy to create and customize contact sheets containing many small thumbnails on one page. You can also print Picture Packages with several differently sized photos on one page, and you can easily edit these picture package layouts to get exactly the arrangement you want.

Contact Sheet II

Contact sheets show many small thumbnails of different photos. You can use a contact sheet to keep track of the photos on a CD or as a record of all the images in one shooting session, for example. The Contact Sheet II included in Elements makes it a snap to create a contact sheet that's laid out exactly the way you want it to look.

To create a contact sheet, press ⌘-Option-P, or select the images you want in the File Browser, and then go to Automate → Contact Sheet II. You can also start by going to File → Contact Sheet II. In either case, you get the window shown in Figure 14-9.

You get quite a few choices if you'd like to customize your contact sheet page layout:

  • Source Images.This is where you pick the photos you want to include. You can choose from any open files or from files you selected in the File Browser (page 39).

  • Document.This is where you select the overall settings for your page. Set the page size in inches, centimeters, or pixels. Then enter a resolution and choose between RGB color and grayscale ...

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