Contact sheet templates

Just making my first contact sheet with lightroom and I have no preloaded templates like all the tutorials show.
If someone could tell me where to find them that would be great.

Ok, that answers that. Thanks for the quick reply.
Would like to see it as a feature in upcoming versions though.

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Thanks in advance for your reply,
Sebastian

http://layersmagazine.com/indesign-cs5-live-captions.html

Minor bug in Print module (numbering of Contact Sheet pages)

I have selected one image from the Library or the film strip, went to the Print module and selected "5x8 Contact Sheet" from the Template Browser. On the top/left corner, it states "Page 1 of 2", while obviously there is one page only. Adding more pictures to fill in multiple pages, and moving from one page to another, the indication on top/left is recurrently wrong, e.g. indicating Page 2 of 2 when I am on 1 of 2. Numbering in the lower right rectangle is correct, instead.

Lightroom automatically wraps text under the thumbnail in contact sheets. The Text Template Editor does not allow you to enter line breaks. So, if your Filename is long enough to fill the first line, the caption will start with the second. If not, you can tweak the template somehow so that it looks the way you want.

Metadata in a contact sheet

Hello! I'm using Bridge CS4 for image research projects. This is all fine and good for inputting info. However, others on the project don't have time to launch photoshop to look at every bit of metadata I'm inputting. They like print outs.
Is there ANY way to get the metadata into a contact sheet PDF? Meaning- Thumbnail of image, file name, and related metadata info.
It seems like such an obvious need for cataloging images.
I've been searching for 3 hours and need to get this out today.
Thanks,
Anthony
PS: Using Mac Master Collection CS4

Not to my knowledge, you can only choose to show the filename, either with
or without extension.
However you can choose to create a Web galery using the same Adobe Output
Module as a PDF contact sheet but then choose Web gallery. Choose for the
template journal with filmstrip or journal with slideshow. This show a
number of metadata, sadly enough you can't choose what to show
You should be able to upload this to a web server and that would save a lot
of prints
However I have zero to none experience with web gallery and if you
experience problems you should do a forum search for web gallery, there are
some interesting about this subject
Is there ANY way to get the metadata into a contact sheet PDF? Meaning-
Thumbnail of image, file name, and related metadata info.
It seems like such an obvious need for cataloging images.

Trying out Contact Sheet in Lightroom 4.1

I've worked through a catalog and intend to save the files to a disk for archiving. I want to include a contact sheet that has both the file name and the associated keywords listed on the page. I did a 4 x 5 contact sheet. I arranged everything and then saved it as a template.
But when I choose the template for the next set of pages I find that the keywords are missing. If I click on "Keep Square" in the Layout, the Keywords return. But if I then save that as a new template the keywords are missing again.
Am I missing something?

You may try following this : http://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/troubleshoot-tethered-capture-lightroom-4.html

Script contact sheet

Hi there,
I'm new to Bridge CC and I'm looking at helping a photographer friend streamline his time consuming manual process.
He currently has a folder containing many sub-folders which each contain 6 images.
He works his way through each sub-folder selecting all 6 images and clicking the pdf generation button on the Output panel to generate a contact sheet using a custom template including a footer and watermark.
I think I can manage looping through the folders but I'm unsure on how to start the pdf generation or apply the template and can't see anything about this in the SDK documentation.
Does anyone have any pointers? Links to useful resources or code snippets would also be great?
Thanks in advance

The Bridge Output Panel is not scriptable.
You might be able to write a script to create a csv file with a list of filenames to be used with Data Driven Graphics.
http://tv.adobe.com/videos/data-driven-graphics/
Good luck.

Out put contact sheet to disc

Need help on outputting (print template) contact sheets to
disc to send to my lab. I am using a pc xp operating systems.
Thanks for your help

The Print Module, go down on the left side where you do the printer settings under Print Job and change Printer next to Printer To: JPEG file.
Don

Contact Sheet II "Upgrade"

Could someone please explain why Adobe took a perfectly good tool, Contact Sheet II, and made it more complicated and difficult to use, takes twice as long to get a final result, and then offers an unusable, optional plug in for those of us who were perfectly satisfied before they "improved" it in CS5? Did anyone ask a user before they "upgraded" this feature?

demberadobe
I used my contact sheet II a little different. I have a psd template that I created for making jewel case thumbnail inserts. The template is 4.5x4.5", I make a contact sheet with 1 to 36 images sized to 4.5x4.5". Then, because it's a psd I simply drag and drop in onto my open template doc. I add the clients name and shoot date in a window at the top of the template. Make a print and slip it into the jewel case. Then just pitch the contact sheet and close my template without saving, so it's ready to go as a blank template for next time.
But this can no longer be done with the bridge contact sheet. I have to save the doc as a pdf, find it, open with... in CS5, select in the "crop to" drop down to "Trim box" (the default is Bounding box, so I have to change this every time I open a contact sheet) - (don't see a way to change the default). If I don't change the crop to setting, the default setting opens the pdf not at the same size it was created in bridge / contact sheet. You'd think that the default setting would open the pdf at the same size it was created???
Then I add one or more folder icons I made to indicated what is on the CD / DVD, example: a folder of e-mail jpegs, FPO's, etc.
Here is a sample of how I had used the old contact sheet II. With CS5.1 I have to jump thru several more hoops / steps to achieve the same thing.

Contact Sheet II Caption Incorrectly Sized

I've used the Contact Sheet plugin in PS for years to generate contact sheets and never had any problems. However, starting just last week the captions (the image filenames in my case) are generated far too small. No matter what I make the font size in the settings the captions stay tiny. Has anyone else encountered this?

Hi Gianni,
I haven't had that problem I'm afraid. I installed the CS X2.1 and set up the templates (I set the output resolution to 402 for my printing company) and ran it and it worked perfectly for me. The default resolution is 72 - have you changed that for your own value?
Whilst I was waiting for a fix for this issue I set up a template in the Print module in Lightroom and I find it is much faster and easier to generate contact sheets that way. Let me know if you want any info

How do I remove files names from my contact sheets in bridge?

I'm creating a contact sheet in Bridge and I only want the pictures not the text file names on the final contact sheet. How do I do this?

I only want the pictures not the text file names on the final contact sheet.
In the output panel are several options to select or deselect. In your case go the 'Overlays' and inhere deselect 'filename' and ' extensions' for not showing this info on your final contact sheet. You can also create a template when your final lay out is ready so you can easily return to this lay out when needed.

Creating specific image sizes on contact sheets

I need to be able to create specific images size on contact sheets 1.75"x 2.25" on 24"w x ??"L paper. Anyone know how to do this?

A script like my Paste Image roll. Paste Image Roll Script and Picture Package Support
http://www.mouseprints.net/old/dpr/PasteImageRoll.jsx
From my Photo Collage Toolkit
Photoshop scripting is powerful and I believe this package demonstrates this A video showing a 5 image collage PSD template being populates with images:
The package includes four simple rules to follow when making Photo Collage Template PSD files so they will be compatible with my Photoshop scripts.
Size the photo collage templates for the print size you want - width, height and print DPI resolution.
Photo collage templates must have a Photoshop background layer. The contents of this layer can be anything.
Photo collage templates must have alpha channels named "Image 1", "Image 2", ... "Image n".
Photo collage templates layers above the background layers must provide transparent areas to let the images that will be placed below them show through.
There are twelve scripts in this package they provide the following functions:
TestCollageTemplate.jsx - Used to test a Photo Collage Template while you are making it with Photoshop.
CollageTemplateBuilder.jsx - Can build Templates compatible with this toolkit's scripts.
LayerToAlphaChan.jsx - Used to convert a Prototype Image Layer stack into a template document.
InteractivePopulateCollage.jsx - Used to interactively populate Any Photo Collage template. Offers most user control inserting pictures and text.
ReplaceCollageImage.jsx - use to replace a populated collage image Smart Object layer with an other image correctly resized and positioned.
ChangeTextSize.jsx - This script can be used to change Image stamps text size when the size used by the populating did not work well.
PopulateCollageTemplate.jsx - Used to Automatically populate a Photo Collage template and leave the populated copy open in Photoshop.
BatchOneImageCollage.jsx - Used to Automatically Batch Populate Collage templates that only have one image inserted. The Collage or Image may be stamped with text.
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Getting 'Preserved Filename' to appear on InDesign contact sheet

i'm using Bridge to manage/catalogue a large client image library. On occasion, i need to send out a PDF catalogue of this library. The built-in tool 'Create InDesign Contact Sheet' works perfectly for this, and i've been able to customize it somewhat, using an Indesign template i created.
One thing i can't quite seem to figure out, however, is how to get the 'Preserved Filename' metadata onto my contact sheets as well. In the contact sheet dialog box, there is an option to 'Define' captions, and what additional information (other than filename) is displayed.
Is this possible? When i do a 'File Info' on one of the images, the preserved filename information i need appears under the 'Advanced' category, 'xapMM: PreservedFileName'

Yes, I did. The way it seems to be set up is like this:
Each page of the contact sheet has 6 images, 2 rows by 3 columns. Each image is contained within it's own set of frames with a title. So I'm on a page that has 6 separate objects on it.
If I select nothing and go to the object styles window, and make changes, nothing happens.
If I select an individual image (with its surrounding frames) and make changes in object styles it affects that one thumbnail.
If I select "select all" then all 6 frames on the page (or 12 if it's facing pages) are selected and the changes I make in object styles are applied to the selected items.
But I can't seem to select more than one set of facing pages at a time.
I'm obviously missing something - just don't know what?
Actually, having just tried it again, I DO seem to be able to make some changes to the whole thing... ok - so it looks like I'm not editing the right things in object styles then.
Thanks - I'll persevere and try to figure out what does what - there are so many variations of what you can tick or untick...

Catalog and Contact Sheets

Be able to print a catalog of folder(s) or selected items directly from bridge. Specify thumbnail size, number of items per sheet, gutter size, text information to be included (e.g., file name, size, print size, IPTC headline, etc.). Specify new page for each folder if applicable including folder name.
Print contact sheet for selected image specifying or selecting the sizes to be presented on the printout.

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> Be able to print a catalog of folder(s) or selected items directly from bridge. Specify thumbnail size, number of items per sheet, gutter size, text information to be included (e.g., file name, size, print size, IPTC headline, etc.). Specify new page for each folder if applicable including folder name.
Actually, you can do all this and more with ContactSheetX(CSX) for PS CS2/CS3
(ps-scripts.sourceforge.net). If you need more than one line in your captions,
you'll need to get the 1.3b1 release. The only thing I don't think I have
support for is a way to have it insert the 'current' path (or folder name) into
the sheet. I imagine I could add that to the template system if there was any
real interest.
CSX will generate and save the sheets in a format of your choosing. You'll need
to print them using some other mechanism.
-X
for photoshop scripting solutions of all sorts
contact: [email protected]

Customize Contact Sheet - Print Mode

Is there a way to customize a print contact sheet with more than the three items (page number, print info, and crop marks)? Specifically, I want to add a "Title" at the top/center of the page (e.g., *** -vs- *** High School Baseball, 02/27/2007).
I customized the other areas (ID template, rows and columns, margins, fonts, file information, etc.) without any problems. The printed results look good, but the page(s) need a title in case they get dropped or mixed up with other contact sheets.
Dose anyone know if you can copy the Contact Sheet II template from Photoshop CS (or CS2) into the Lightroom "Print Template" folder and use it?
If this has already been addressed, please excuse, but I could not find anything searching the forum.
Thanks for help and recommendations.
Bruce K

Bruce, a workaround.
You could use an ID plate that is wider than normal, and include the title (in the PNG image) where you want it to be.
I don't believe that the CS template will run in LR.
Sid
The LightroomExtra home page is right here.

InDesign contact sheet is prompting reject or delete file message box

Some of us are experiencing a very weird problem in Bridge CS3. When we use the delete button to remove data from the contact sheet settings window (for ex., deleting any data typed into the Template or Output Options fields), the reject/delete files message box appears. I've watched one of my production artists do this, and it's quite odd. All he's doing is selecting a couple or all files in a folder and then creating an InDesign contact sheet. Has anyone else experienced this problem? We were also able to replicate the issue on a different Mac computer. Thanks.

Lisa,
When I was writing that script, I chose to make it's dialog a palette rather than a dialog so that the user could modify the selected images while the palette was showing.
What's happening is that:
When the delete key is being pressed, the palette to set the settings isn't active (you can tell by the title bar in the window). When it's active, it will receive the delete key event from Bridge, when it's not active, Bridge will process the delete key.
It seemed like a better way to do it at the time. This was the one bad case I can see, and I never thought about it nor saw it in testing.
Regards
Bob

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