Contact Sheets without .JPG?

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
April 30, 2018
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I'm trying to make contact sheets with around 200 photos - everything is working great except it insists on including the .JPG in all the photo labels. I went through and deleted it off all the photo names (so Few_House.JPG became just Few_House) but it still prints them on the contact sheet. Any ideas on how to remove that, other than going through and marking up each individual label?

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talha_5440

Participant

You can try renaming the files without the ".JPG" extension before generating the contact sheet. If the software still includes it, check for an option to customize file labels. Otherwise, exporting a list and batch editing filenames might help. What software are you using for this task?

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avid_customers4846

Participant

i did try to rename the photos without the file name, for some reason it is still being included. just upgraded to Photoshop 2025 today hence I lost the old script my office had.

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

An alternative to editing the ContactSheetII.jsx file is to run a script to remove filename extensions from all text layers. This is good for a mix of different file extensions, otherwise the standard find/replace is good.

#target photoshop
// Remove filename extension from all text layers

for (var i = 0; i < app.documents.length; i++) {
    app.activeDocument = app.documents[i];
    var doc = app.activeDocument;
    for (var j = 0; j < doc.layers.length; j++) {
        try {
            doc.activeLayer = doc.layers[j];
            if (app.activeDocument.activeLayer.kind == LayerKind.TEXT) {
                doc.activeLayer.textItem.contents = doc.activeLayer.textItem.contents.replace(/\.[^\.]+$/, '');
            }
        } catch (e) {}
    }
}

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/11/downloading-and-installing-adobe-scripts.html