Making Proof Sheets.....

Question

I am a ametuar photographer that likes to just take pics..... BUT i was asked by a local board shop to take pictures of thier local mountain boarding event in like a month. I want to be able to provide proofs to those who ask for them. this is what i want to do,
1.) see if i photo would let me (degrade) resolution and print say 6-8 pics on a page......
2.) find a way to degrade print quality to upload the web for a site for viewing or ordering purposes.
3.) or be pointed into the direction of software that would let me do mulitple prints at a lower quality!
I shoot with a Nikon D70s and in Raw format. I use iphoto only for library purposes

Answer 1

Stephen:
An easy way to produce a proof sheet with file names underneath each photo (the Contact Sheet print option does not give you this option) is to do the following.
1 - set your background in the Organize window to white.
2 - set the size of the thumbnail size to what the size that you want.
3 - take a screen shot of just the Organize window area (I use SnapZ which will let you select a give area. Or you can use Grab located in your Applications/Utilties folder). Then print the screen shot file. You can only get as many photos on a sheet as your can get on your screen so it may take a few screen shots.
Another way is:
Creating Contact Sheet with Titles
1 - Put the files you want to print in an album and arrange in the order you'd like.
2 - Go to the File->Export->Web Page menu option.
3 - While in the Web page window, select the number of thumbnails you'd like across each page (iPhoto will keep you informed on how many pages it will take).
4 - Click on Show Title under thumbnails and click on Export. Then select the location where you'd like the resulting files to be saved (create a temporary folder to contain them).
5 - Once saved, go the folder and open the index.html file with your browser. You will get a page with your thumbnails and titles beneath them.
6 - Print that browser page and you've got your contact sheet with file names (or comments if desired).
If you want more control over the thumbnail gallery, try using BetterHTMLExport or Galerie.
This will give you more photos per page than the screenshot method.
Hope this has been of some help. Good luck.
OT