The Photoshop® CS Book for Digital Photographers

Creating a Contact Sheet for Your CD

All right, your CD of “digital negatives” is burned; but before you go any further, you can save yourself a lot of time and frustration down the road if you create a CD jewel-box-sized contact sheet now. That way, when you pick up the CD, you’ll see exactly what’s on the disc before you even insert it into your computer. Luckily, the process of creating this contact sheet is automated, and after you make a few decisions on how you want your contact sheet to look, Photoshop takes it from there.

Step One.

In Photoshop CS, you can access the Contact Sheet command by either going under the File menu, under Automate, and choosing Contact Sheet II, or by choosing it directly from the File Browser’s “mini-menu” ...