Contact sheets for PSE9...help please. :)

Question

At my office the last version we had was PSE2....Gasp!! The contact sheets were so simple and I've tried and tried to figure out how to do them in Photoshop Elements 9 to no avail. For example, I want to print 10 images (all contained in one folder on our server) - 2 per page. Please please help. I am amazed at how much we relied on that function. Thank you!

Answer 1

As an alternative, you can create your own template:
Open a new, blank file (File>new>blank file) and set width & height in the inch size of your paper stock (5x7" for example)), resolution 300px/in, background white (can be any color)
Access the rectangular marquee tool, and in the the tool's option bar select "Fixed size", and put in 3.00x2.25", for example. Turn on the grid and snap to grid via View>grid & snap to grid. You can configure the grid via Edit>preferences>Guides and grids if you want to.
Duplicate the background layer, and create the first box by clicking with the rectangular marquee tool. Position the box, then fill it with 50% gray (Edit>fill selection, and under contents select 50% gray.) Select>deselect gets rid of the marching ants
Repeat for the next box. You should now have a document containing two rectangular boxes filled with 50% gray.
Select the first box that you wish to fill (with the picture) with the magic wand tool. On the tool's option bar be sure that contiguous is checked. You should see "marching ants" around the selection, indicating that it is active.
Open picture 1, go to Select>all, Edit>copy, then go to your layout as completed in step #5, and Edit>paste into selection
Your image will be larger that the rectangular box, but you can drag it around to position the person that you wish to display. CTRL+T will allow you to resize the image with the corner handles, and to maneuver it
Repeat for picture 2 with the 2nd box