CREATE A CONTACT SHEET IN ADOBE BRIDGE
Whenever you are assigned a project with a minimum amount of photographs due, you will create a Contact Sheet to turn in along with your final, processed images.
This is an easy to make PDF document that will display thumbnails for every photograph you took for your project. You will be using the Output to PDF function in Adobe Bridge to do this.
1. First, locate your corresponding Project folder on your flash drive or external hard drive. This is the folder that holds all of your original, imported images that you shot for your project. You can navigate to this folder in the FOLDERS panel on the lefthand side in Adobe Bridge.
Make sure that your are using the ESSENTIALS workspace. You can check this by choosing ESSENTIALS in the top right corner OR navigating to WINDOW>WORKSPACE>ESSENTIALS.
This is an easy to make PDF document that will display thumbnails for every photograph you took for your project. You will be using the Output to PDF function in Adobe Bridge to do this.
1. First, locate your corresponding Project folder on your flash drive or external hard drive. This is the folder that holds all of your original, imported images that you shot for your project. You can navigate to this folder in the FOLDERS panel on the lefthand side in Adobe Bridge.
Make sure that your are using the ESSENTIALS workspace. You can check this by choosing ESSENTIALS in the top right corner OR navigating to WINDOW>WORKSPACE>ESSENTIALS.
2. Next, select ALL of your photographs that you made for your project. The keyboard shortcut for SELECT ALL is Command+A.
You can look in the PREVIEW panel on the righthand side to see how many images you have selected. You can also view this in the bottom lefthand corner.
You can look in the PREVIEW panel on the righthand side to see how many images you have selected. You can also view this in the bottom lefthand corner.
3. Once you have selected all of your photographs, navigate to the Output Workspace.
4. Next, make these selections in the righthand OUTPUT SETTINGS panel:
- Drag and drop your selected files onto the canvas.
- Template: 4 x 5 Contact Sheet (this will change to CUSTOM after you select your paper size)
- Page Size: Letter
- Image Quality: 12
Leave the rest of the options as is.
Your generated preview should look something like this:
5. Lastly, choose EXPORT TO PDF at the bottom of the page.
6. This will save your contact sheet as a PDF. From here, choose the correct Project folder to save your contact sheet to. Be sure to label it correctly.
7. Upload the PDF in to your Google Drive folder that you've shared with me.
Congratulations—you have created your first Contact Sheet! Well done.
Congratulations—you have created your first Contact Sheet! Well done.