Need to print various size photographs on one sheet using a Prp 100s but how

[Ellie Jones]

After the recent death of my mother in law, we found black & white photographs of various ancestors going back over 100 years, I am scanning the photographs, tidying them up in photoshop, so that every family member can have at least a copy of the original, I need to print the several photographs of varying sizes onto a single sheet (at moment intending to use my stock of A3+ paper)

I thought it would be easy with the the Canon's easy print, but alas when I loaded several photographs into the software it appears, I can only choose a single photograph per page! If I drop to A4, I might be able to get 2 photographs on one page.. The problem being I want to keep photographs with an exception of one or two, as near to their original size as possible.

And Suggestions..

I do have Lightroom and Photoshop cs17 software

 

[Faldrax]

Lightroom's print module allows you to create a custom layout, with various different sized images on one sheet - I've not found it totally intuitive to use, however, and as I create such customer layouts infrequently have sometimes found myself going round in circles !

 

[Ellie Jones]

Thanks

Why do I have a foreboding feeling

I shall give lightroom a go and see if I can get my head around it

 

[Harlequin565]

Why do I have a foreboding feeling

It's not that bad actually...

Import all your photos into Lightroom.
Throw them into a collection.
With the collection selected, go into the print module
Select "custom package" from the layout style (top right).
Click on Page Setup (lower left) to set your page size to SuperA3 (That's american for A3+)
Drag, drop & resize images onto your paper from the filmstrip at the bottom. If you need to add another page, click on "cells" and "new page". You can right click any image and "match photo aspect ratio" which will give you a full aspect image (with no cropping)

You can then print direct to your printer from Lightroom, or print to a jpeg file which you can then feed into your "easy print"(?) printer software to print as a single sheet.

 

[Nod]

The way I do collages of smaller images on larger paper is to create a new blank image then copy and paste the smaller images onto it. Once I have them roughed in, I shift them round by dragging and dropping and resize them using whichever button is necessary to maintain their aspect ratio until I have filled the paper in the most pleasing way. (Using PSE rather than LR.)

 

[russellsnr]

JMO. but thank god for Qimage!! best printing software out there but again JMO. Russ