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 Originals 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 Originals 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 button and click it, choosing Output to Web or PDF.
This will bring up the OUTPUT workspace. It will look like this:
4. Next, make these selections in the righthand OUTPUT panel:
- Choose PDF
- Template: Custom
Under Document: - Page Preset: U.S. Paper
- Size: Letter
- Quality: 300 ppi
- Background: White
Under Layout: - Image Placement: Across First (By Row)
- Columns: 4 (this number will ultimately depend on how many images you have total.)
- Rows: 4 (this number will ultimately depend on how many images you have total.)
Under Overlays: - Check Filename and Extension (Make sure that your files are named correctly with you first and last name (firstname_latsname_name_game_originals_001, etc.)
Leave the rest of the options the same.
5. Lastly, choose REFRESH PREVIEW at the top of the OUTPUT module.
Your generated preview should look something like this:
6. If your generate preview looks correct, then choose SAVE at the bottom of the OUTPUT module. This will save your contact sheet as a PDF.
7. Save the Contact Sheet in your named Project folder. Place the PDF in your Google Drive folder that you've shared with me.
Congratulations—you have created your first Contact Sheet. Include this in your turn in process.
Congratulations—you have created your first Contact Sheet. Include this in your turn in process.