Contact sheets soft and banding

When I print contact sheets the photos look a little soft and some have banding. The images look great when printed full size alone. Is there something I can do to get better quality images in the contact sheet? Do they not look good because they are using the preview jpeg to make the prints rather then the high res file. My current contact sheet size is 2 across and 3 down on a letter size sheet.
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Contact Sheets / Proofing and useful Aperture RAW Conversion

All,
I wanted to appeal to all of you pro photographers out there to share about how you handle the proofing stage (contact sheets) with your clients. I'm curious about how you all make this process as efficient as possible.
Ok, say you have taken 1000 pictures for a wedding or some other event (forget the accuracy of that number, its just a round number for discussion sake). You need to present your photos to your client, but you need to present a subset of the 1000 photos for a few reasons:
1) Not all photos you are going to take are going to be great. I've heard a general quote by some pro photographers that their "keeper ratios" (the percentage of pics that are really good from a shoot) run around 10%-20%. Fair enough, I don't want to debate this percentage, but it gives us a target number of 100 photos to present to a client from a 1000 picture shoot.
2) Your client is probably not going to be happy if they have to sift through 1000 photos. I recently had a friend who paid several thousand dollars for a wedding photographer who sent them 1000 photos to choose from. They weren't particularly happy with this, and told the guy there was just too many to choose from. Personally, I felt that this was putting part of the photographer's responsibility on the client, but whatever.
Ok...so for the sake of the example here, we have to get 1000 photos down to 100 photos, so the client can choose what 50 (for example) they want to purchase and have printed, put in their photo book, slide presentation, etc.
Sorry for the long intro, but here is the issue at hand: we want to work quickly for the client, and get them their 100 photos as soon as possible. We also want to put our best foot forward, and give them high-quality photos. But at the same time, we want to work efficiently, and if possible not spend time doing final retouching on photos that the customer doesn't want, but rather focus this time directly on the photos the customer does want.
I have two questions from this which pertain to Aperture's RAW conversion and workflow:
1) Do you do any significant adjustments on photos for the contact sheets you present to clients (the 100 photos now)? Is it just a quick exposure adjustment, or are you retouching all 100?
2) Despite Aperture's RAW conversion problems and other adjustment glitches, is it sufficient quality in your opinion for a contact sheet?
My purpose in asking these questions is that perhaps the Aperture RAW conversion issue can be mitigated if we can get to the point of customer contact and review using Aperture-only conversion and adjustment tools, and then isolate photoshop use for only the final, significant edits. The problems with Aperture's RAW conversion are well-documented, but the question is, could it still be sufficient for small-scale proofs, understanding that for large-scale, high-res images, it won't be suffcient.
Your opinons are valued!
Brad
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">-DELETE project from Aperture because I can't use the app for the delivery
of finals:
Forgive me if I've forgotten the detail you may have posted elsewhere about this. I have seen you mention this several times, but I am really interested in the specifics behind the problems you have encountered. I have some needs in finishing that are beyond just regurgitating a photo. I'll be basically augmenting my photo with text, borders, special effects, etc. for more professional presentation, and the ability to market a photo in different ways. This is one reason I cannot discard Photoshop from my workflow. Anyway, let's assume for a moment I'm able to do all my editing in Photoshop, and those PSD files are sitting within Aperture. From there, what problems am I going to encounter? I'm tapping your brain here, as the time I have spent in Aperture has been primarily oriented toward everything prior to the finishing stage. "
Hi Brad,
If I've imported images into Aperture that have previously been worked over in Photoshop, none of the layers I may have created in those files will be available to me from within Aperture. This does not break but severely sprains the functionality of Photoshop. I'm keeping the images around because I think I or my clients will need them later, so what might I do with them?:
1) If I'd like to do more work on them I either have to abandon access to the previously created layers and their magic, or export the file from Aperture, work on it outside, import it back into Aperture. Every time I want to work with those layers I have to do the same dance.
2) If I'd like to send jpg or tif versions of those files anywhere I can choose to use the tools within Aperture or Photoshop to do so. Aperture's tools for these conversions are simply not of professional utility: no compressed tifs, no layered tif support, no quality choices for jpgs and no jpg previews. And in either case, using Aperture or Photoshop, the conversions are created OUTSIDE of Aperture and not managed by it.
3) When I decide to archive my older projects I'm faced with the incredible limitation that Aperture will not allow me any remote search of any archive that is not "live" within Aperture. Not even Spotlight will search Aperture libraries!!!!!
So moving already created projects into Aperture has absolutely no advantages and a number of problems, any one of which might be a deal-killer by itself.
If I'd like to use Aperture to manage work that I create going forward I've got those limitations already listed above, but I CAN access layers in PSD that are created from within Aperture. I cannot make layered duplicates of those files in order to work on versions of those images so once again the Photoshop workflow is hobbled.
All of this makes it a bad idea for my projects to make anything but a brief trip in and out of Aperture for sorting/proofing.
Regards,
fp

Contact sheet truncates and changes file name

Greetings!
I am using Photoshop CS3 on a G5 PowerPC running OS 10.5.4. My file name is 29 characters long and looks like this - Gar_070208_MD_42BlueHeron_055.JPG. When I make a contact sheet, PS puts the images in the correct order left to right top to bottom. What is wrong is PS changes the last part of the file name.
My settings (I have 4 across and 5 down) are X-Include All Subfolders, X- Flatten All Layers, X- Rotate For Best Fit and X-Use Filename As Caption (Helvetica size 12 pt) The full name fits under each image with room to spare. The resulting name looks like this for the name above - Gar_070208_MD_42BlueH#4A895.JPG. I have tried making the CS a number of time varying the font size and no change. When making those changes, I notice that the file names are still wrong and are consistently the same wrong. And they get weirder, like #4A89D, #4A8A9, #4A8B1 ....
The only thing I can figure is that PS does not like a file name longer than 27 characters, since that is what it truncates to. Or there is another problem/bug in the system.
Any thoughts, ideas or workarounds?
Thanks in advance!
Cheers!
Gar

I have the same problem. I am using PS CS3 running under OS 10.5.2. If the file name excluding the extension is longer than 27 characters, I get the same error, starting with the # character. However, if the file name is longer than 27 characters, it still appears correct in Bridge and in the documents folder. This leads me to speculate that it is a Photoshop problem, not an operating system issue.
When I was using contact sheet II in PS CS2 under Windows XP, it worked ok for more than 27 characters.
Guy Painchaud

How can you create a contact sheet that you can email?

I see that you can print a contact sheet but how can you make a contact sheet that you can email where receiver can open the thumbnails and view?

Hi,
You can either use Bridge and the Output workspace, or grab optional plug-ins for CS5 and run Ps on OSX in the 32 bit mode. (Or grab the excellent 3rd party script, Contact Sheet X, and run that in Ps. http://ps-scripts.sourceforge.net/ContactSheetX/csx.html).
Here's a post with links to further info:
http://blogs.adobe.com/jkost/2011/09/the-contact-sheet-feature.html
regards,
steve

How to create a Contact Sheet with Adobe Photoshop CS5 from a disc with images in different folders

I got a disc with images files (mainly ai and psd files) in different folders and subfolders, how can I create a contact sheet including all the image files in different folders. (It seems that Adobe Bridge can only create a contact sheet by clicking the image files directly but not a folder including the images files)
thx!

Use the optional Contact Sheet II plugin which is found in Adobe's Downloads:
1) search for contact sheet in PS CS5 help
2) choose the first result and read carefully about the Photoshop Optional Plug-In Picture Packager
3) follow the instructions to download the zip file and note the location that you download it to.
4) follow the instructions to install the files.
I'm not sure how PS CS5 will handle ai vector image files or if you have to batch convert them to raster images first before using Contact Sheet II. Contact Sheet II allows you to choose a folder and Include All SubFolders as an option so you could create a Contact Sheet folder and copy all of your desired folders into that folder which will become subfolders of the main folder you choose for your contact sheet.

AS3 Contact Sheet Help!!

Hi, I have been making a website entirely in flash CS4 AS3 and I decided to buy a contact sheet to add into it, when I added it in though it didn't work. I would click the button of the contact sheet and it didn't work. I contacted the creator if the contact sheet and this is what he told me:
Actionscript 3.0 hates timelines
They way you have it set up it wont work
First get the emailer working in its own flv, swf.
Then when you have it working loaded it as an external swf.
You tie line coding was normal in 1.0 acceptable in 2.0 but wont cut it in 3.0
All Actionscript needs to be in one key frame. all pages need to be externally loaded swf,s not just a new location on a timeline.
So if someone could tell me how to create a contain file and external .swf for my contact sheet and also how to call up the external .swf it would be great help.
I attached my Flash file as a zip file so you can look at it and give me the best help possible. Thorough instructions would be much appreciated.
What I've done is i simply took that contact sheet and put it into the time line where the correct frame label is. I am using frame labels to call up the different pages on the site when i click on the buttons. So like I said i put it at the frame label "contact" and so when i click on the Contact Me button it goes to the contact sheet. That part works but as far as the contact sheet responding and sending the email nothing is happening. I have the PHP file and everything set up.
Here's the website it's on it it helps to look at it online so that you can experience the problem yourself.
http://citiesrebuildingcities.com/AnthonyFlashSite/index.html

Hmm well do you think you can take a look at it? Because it works but when you click the send button it doesnt respond or even go to the next frame or anything. As long as the form is filled out correctly it just sits there. Ive been trying to fix this for a long time and would like to get it working.

Bridge - Photoshop - Contact Sheet II - PLEASE HELP

I used to be able to open bridge - go to tools - photoshop - contact sheet II
now all it gives me is General Photoshop Error occurred
I've even deleted bridge preferences
Is it a problem in Photoshop or Bridge itself?
I have tried everywhere even the forums and nobody seems to be to help
I use the contact sheet all the time to do my pages - I can do it in photoshop but Bridge is so convenient and I can rearrange my pictures the way I want them to.
We have other machines in the office and I tried to same thing and the other machines are working fine - it's just mine.
Thank you for your prompt response,
Marie

Are you using CS4 because you will need to install the optional "Contact Sheet II" software into Photoshop CS4.
This Link should help:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb404900&sliceId=2#h5
You can then Select your images in Bridge and go to Tools menu/Photoshop>Contact Sheet II
and Contact Sheet II will then open in Photoshop.

CS5 Contact sheet II in bridge

Wondering if anyone could help me make contact sheet II run from bridge in CS5 again. I'm on a PC and I noticed the other day it had disappeared under the tools /photoshop in bridge. I went back and re-installed the contact sheet folder and .jsx file back into the common folder files under adobe/photoshop but contact still wont work from bridge. Any ideas???? I'm running cs5 12.0.4 x32 and bridge 4.0.5.11

Provided you installed the scripts in the right places according the directions in pdf that comes with the optional cs5 plugins, check in Bridge CS5
under Edit>Preferences>Startup Scripts and see if the Contact Sheet II script is enabled.
If the menu item is there in bridge check that the plugins themselves are actually installed.
What version of windows are you using?

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.

How can I create a contact sheet?

I've got 32 PSD files of a customers paintings that we use to make greeting cards. She just turned 100 last week and her daughter in law came in to pick some up and asked if we could make a sheet with small versions of the paintings on them with the file names so that she can remember them. She thought we only had 5. I told her we have more like 30. So the old lady doesn't know what we do and don't have here.
Since they are Photoshop files, I can't just toss em into iPhoto to create a contact sheet. I guess I could do a batch convert to JPG on all of them and then drop those into iPhoto but is there a way to do this within Photoshop? just open up all 32 PSD files and create some sort of a contact sheet with file names under each image? Maybe 6 to a page?
Photoshop CS 5.1
OS X

Hi,
You can either use Bridge and the Output workspace, or grab optional plug-ins for CS5 and run Ps on OSX in the 32 bit mode. (Or grab the excellent 3rd party script, Contact Sheet X, and run that in Ps. http://ps-scripts.sourceforge.net/ContactSheetX/csx.html).
Here's a post with links to further info:
http://blogs.adobe.com/jkost/2011/09/the-contact-sheet-feature.html
regards,
steve

Creating a contact sheet of illustrations using CS6

Is there a way to create a contact sheet of my illustrations (eps files) so that they don't come out fuzzy? If i use bridge they are way too pixelated.

You might want to try what indesign secrets has on the subject :
http://indesignsecrets.com/the-ultimate-contact-sheet.php
and this is what i actually do but there are no captions
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How do I print the thumbnails as they are to make a contact sheet?

How do I print the thumbnails as they are to make a contact sheet?

Not sure what you mean by "as they are"
TO print a contact sheet is extremely simple - select the photos and click print - select the contact sheet theme and make any other selections (printer, paper size, etc) and click print
LN

New PDF Contact Sheet help

Hi,
I am trying to use Automator to create a simple application that takes a set of images and creates a pdf contact sheet.
When I create an application in automator with the New PDF Contact Sheet action and run it, I get an error "There was an error in processing the images (-2700) in the log. What gives - how do I solve this error? This is the only action, aside from the "Get Specified Finder Items" action.
Oddly, it seems that the contact sheet pdf is getting created and placed in the Pictures folder. But the final result of a pdf in the location specified by the action is not getting created.
Thanks

I have found a work around solution, which i think maybe the origin of the problem. You will need to also install a work flow app called Life-Poster. by Jim Heid. Below is the link.
When i installed that and used the New PDF Contact Sheet a noticed a new app in the doc called MakePDF. And the rest of my workflow worked perfectly as it did in Leopard. It seems that apple has either left out this makePDF app out of snow leopard or made a change to it in some way it is not recognized or called properly in the New PDF Contact Sheet Action.
http://www.macilife.com/2005/07/how-to-make-life-poster-tiger-edition.html
Good luck hope it works for you like it did for me.
JM

Contact sheet produces error message

I installed the contact sheet files and folder but it opens CF5 and produces an error message.
Have I installe it wrong? see attachment

As you know the Contact Sheet was discontinued in CS5 and replaced with a similar program in Output. But if you like Contact Sheet here is a former response to a post that may help you.
Can not verify this is the correct approach. Might want to google "Adobe Bridge CS5 contact sheet" and see if this address is used by others.
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I make pdf output in Bridge CS5 but not work.
I downloaded optional filters and I tried in to read me files path but it doesn't work.
Now I find a new path and put in the "bridge Startup Scripts" file there. They working perfectly.
The path is the bottom:
... /Program Files(x86)/Common Files/Adobe/Bridge CS5 Exkensions/Adobe Output Module/Resources/Scripts
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... /Program Files(x86)/Common Files/Adobe/Bridge CS5 Exkensions/Adobe Output Module/Resources/Scripts

More Contact Sheet Help needed!

Hi, I have been making a website entirely in flash CS4 AS3 and I decided to buy a contact sheet to add into it, when I added it in though it didn't work. I would click the button of the contact sheet and it didn't work. I contacted the creator if the contact sheet and this is what he told me:
Actionscript 3.0 hates timelines
They way you have it set up it wont work
First get the emailer working in its own flv, swf.
Then when you have it working loaded it as an external swf.
You tie line coding was normal in 1.0 acceptable in 2.0 but wont cut it in 3.0
All Actionscript needs to be in one key frame. all pages need to be externally loaded swf,s not just a new location on a timeline.
So if someone could tell me how to create a contain file and external .swf for my contact sheet and also how to call up the external .swf it would be great help.
I attached my Flash file as a zip file so you can look at it and give me the best help possible. Thorough instructions would be much appreciated.
What I've done is i simply took that contact sheet and put it into the time line where the correct frame label is. I am using frame labels to call up the different pages on the site when i click on the buttons. So like I said i put it at the frame label "contact" and so when i click on the Contact Me button it goes to the contact sheet. That part works but as far as the contact sheet responding and sending the email nothing is happening. I have the PHP file and everything set up.
Here's the website it's on it it helps to look at it online so that you can experience the problem yourself.
http://citiesrebuildingcities.com/AnthonyFlashSite/index.html

1. Publish the ContactForm.fla as a separate .swf, say contactForm.swf.
2. On the timeline of your main file (index.fla), add code at the frame labelled "contact", to load in the "external" contact form swf, contactForm.swf. Look up the Loader Class in the ActionScript 3.0 reference to see how to do this.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS3LCR/Flash_10.0/flash/display/Loader.html
I haven't looked at the code in ContactForm.fla but hopefully there are no scope issues and the loaded swf works independently of your main file. Just make sure that sendEmail.php is in the same directory as your index.swf.

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