Teach you how to master Photoshop's contact list tool

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Sometimes you want to share your work with people when you finish the picture. It can be done in a variety of ways, such as direct display on laptops, tablets or smartphones. But what if you have a lot of pictures and you want to send it to someone quickly or do you want to make a presentation and you don't have any portable electronic devices?

A simple solution is to create a contact list with Adobe Bridge or Photoshop, and you can easily make thumbnails into a single page and put it in a binder or send it in JPEG or PDF format. You can learn how to professionally present your pictures through the following tutorial.

In Bright cc, select Tools >Photoshop> Contact Sheet Ii. Note: Selecting this option will go directly to the PS and Contact Table dialog box.

In PS cc, you can choose to click on the file > Auto > Contact list ii.

Both options bring up the "Contact Table II" dialog box, and you can see that there are many options in the dialog box, and the page displays its default settings. We can customize it.

Note that if you're just starting out with bridge, some of the images may not be in the right direction. When this happens, you have to do this: Before creating the Contact form, click on the selected image, at the top of the page there is a rotation button, click Rotate.

Before you create a contact form, select all the images you want to use.

At the top of the dialog box, you can select a picture source by using a Drop-down button. The screenshot above is used in bridge, and if you use Photoshop, you'll have more options, but the end result is the same.

Right there are three buttons next to each other. The Load button allows you to load your previously saved contact list file, and the Save button allows you to save a good contact list under your settings, and the reset button is the Reset dialog box to the default settings.

The above dialog box is the middle part of the document setup. By default, the unit is in inches and the width and height are 8x10.

The resolution is 300 pixels per inch, the mode is an RGB color, the bit depth is 8 bits, and the default color profile is shown above. These can be changed according to their own needs. For example, you can set units in inches, centimeters or pixels and patterns can also be arbitrarily changed to grayscale, RGB colors, CMYK colors, or lab colors.

The bottom column of this screen is to flatten all the layers. If you turn it off, all the files appear in the contact list, and they exist on a separate layer. By default, this button is checked, that is, all of your images have been pieced together before entering the Contact table.

In the section of the thumbnail, you can set the position and arrangement of the image. You can set the picture to landscape first or vertically.

The default settings are as follows: The number of columns and rows are 5 columns and 6 rows respectively, tick > Use automatic spacing, vertical and horizontal white are 0.14 inches, do not check > rotate to adjust to the best position.

The bottom is the file name as a caption. If you do not want to use the default font size. You can choose the font you want to use from your computer. Now we use the default settings.

Note: The above settings allow you to place 30 images in one page. If the figure is more than this, the rest of the section will create a new contact list for you.

Start creating

When you are satisfied with your settings, click OK. Photoshop creates a page and a contact sheet, and if the file size is large, it takes a little longer.

This is the contact form that is completed under the default settings, but before using the contact form, make sure that the type of file you are importing is supported.

Note that each image has its own layer when the flattened image is not checked, and you can change it after the Contact table is generated.

About default settings

Although you can use the default settings in Photoshop, I do not recommend this because many of the images in the page created under the default settings are small. Conversely, the fewer columns and rows are created, the larger the image is, and the easier it is to see it.

It is also important to leave the image and the entire page white. The image that is finished with the default settings is usually very tightly connected and looks a little awkward on the page. So you need to give the image a certain amount of space to make it look more independent. If the interval is not wide enough, it is estimated that you will want to separate them when you see the images yourself.

Use a separate folder

Do not place the horizontal and vertical images on one page. Otherwise, the Contact table it creates will look messy. Instead, the horizontal and vertical images are in separate folders, and your report will look more professional. At the same time, if necessary, all images are of the same height and width.

The following figure is a contact table for a horizontal image, set to 3 columns, 2 rows, and a vertical and horizontal spacing of 5 inches.

As you can see, the process of creating a contact table is simple and easy to manipulate. It can quickly and easily generate the preview you want, and you can also print or save it as a JPEG or PDF to send to your friends and colleagues.

Hopefully this tutorial will give you a better understanding of the contact form, and hopefully it will help you in the actual operation.

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