Method to generate digital contact sheets

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As with many people in this forum, I tend to scan in my film rolls into a folder,

It would be good to have a printed contact sheet with my negatives. Is there any quick software/method to convert 36 photos into a contact sheet which i can get printed online.

cheers
 
sidxms said:
As with many people in this forum, I tend to scan in my film rolls into a folder,

It would be good to have a printed contact sheet with my negatives. Is there any quick software/method to convert 36 photos into a contact sheet which i can get printed online.

cheers
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+1 love to know that to :)
 
I read a link about doing it in photoshop, by making a grid and inserting the photos into the grid, not sure if it was automatic but i'll see if i can dig it up
 
You can certainly do it with Aperture. Select the set of images, click on Print under the file menu, and select Contact Sheet. Not sure it really helps, though.
 
ChrisR said:
You can certainly do it with Aperture. Select the set of images, click on Print under the file menu, and select Contact Sheet. Not sure it really helps, though.
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Can be done in Lightroom too
 
What _I_ want to know is, how do you store your negatives? Since I use several different processors, I get envelopes of all different sizes, sometimes with 2 or 3 films inside and a CD. Currently I have a coding system for folder names, and I write the folder names onto the outside of the envelope. The plan was to keep them roughly in date order in a shoe box (which is what's happened to the historical scanned negatives from 1967 onwards, as oppsed to the hundreds of unscanned envelopes in a large box), but some of the envelopes are way too large. So currently the ones from this year are accumulating on a shelf!
 
Negatives go in numbered sleeves in a big A4 file, sheet at the front acts as a contents list with approx date, film type, subject, dev details, any notable frames etc
Scans go into lightroom and are separated into individual rolls/subjects if they cross rolls. Will be getting a bit of an overhaul over this summer though.
 
Ummm.......doesn't printer software offer an option for printing a grid of different pictures on a sheet of A4
 
Thanks for that,

Would have been handy if photoshop plug in would add better margins to the edges. I don't see an option for this, I need to increase image size manually for this.

Would be better if bridge outputted in jpeg as most online printer needs jpeg for printing not pdfs.

Ah well..
 
ChrisR said:
What _I_ want to know is, how do you store your negatives? Since I use several different processors, I get envelopes of all different sizes, sometimes with 2 or 3 films inside and a CD. Currently I have a coding system for folder names, and I write the folder names onto the outside of the envelope. The plan was to keep them roughly in date order in a shoe box (which is what's happened to the historical scanned negatives from 1967 onwards, as oppsed to the hundreds of unscanned envelopes in a large box), but some of the envelopes are way too large. So currently the ones from this year are accumulating on a shelf!
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Chris, I shall shortly be listing a part pack (18 sheets) of Jessops neg sleeves and will put "going to ChrisR" in the listing. I'll be going this route rather than doing the deal here to satisfy the forum trading rules!

ETA http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=5484759#post5484759
 
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