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Serene_video0D4C
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February 1, 2022
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Is there an action or script to create a gallery/contact sheet of proportional images?

  • February 1, 2022
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I need to review a bunch of banners etc for consistency, and I want to see all of them at once (more than 20 images). I think I’ll just have to paste them individually into a new document and keep expanding it as I move them around. 

 

But it seems like something that someone may have automated. Does anyone use or have you seen anything like this? The only way I can describe it is as a single page gallery, or a contact sheet BUT with all of the images maintaining their original measurements (or at least their original scale, relative to each other).

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Mac OS X 12.1 Monterey, Photoshop 2022 (23.1.1)

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Correct answer Stephen Marsh

If you have access to Illustrator or preferrably InDesign, you can place multiple images in a single operation. Images will be sized by their print size. Select all and scale the images small enough to fit on the page/pages and position each image.

 

I tried the InDesign Image Catalogue script and the ContactSheetX from xbytor and they both resize the image to the frame size, they don't show the relative size of one image to another.

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Stephen Marsh
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Stephen MarshCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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February 2, 2022

If you have access to Illustrator or preferrably InDesign, you can place multiple images in a single operation. Images will be sized by their print size. Select all and scale the images small enough to fit on the page/pages and position each image.

 

I tried the InDesign Image Catalogue script and the ContactSheetX from xbytor and they both resize the image to the frame size, they don't show the relative size of one image to another.

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    Serene_video0D4CAuthor
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    February 3, 2022

    Hi Stephen -- multiple placement (in InDesign) and then rescale, that’s about as close as I assume I’ll get! It’s not entirely automated but it’s a heck of a lot better than I did on my own. And at least I can use Arrange to space them out evenly. So a big THANK YOU!

      Stephen Marsh
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      Stephen MarshCommunity Expert
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      February 4, 2022

      I'm sure that this and the alignment, distribution etc. could be automated, or changes made to the standard InDesign Image Catalogue script, but at least you have a result. 

      Myra Ferguson
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      Myra FergusonCommunity Expert
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      February 2, 2022

      Would the Contact sheet command (File > Automate > Contact Sheet II) in Photoshop work? 

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        Serene_video0D4CAuthor
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        February 2, 2022

        Hi Myra -- thanks very much, but unfortunately Contact Sheet scales everything so that the largest dimension is equal (to fill each “cell” of the contact sheet). I didn’t exactly make that clear!

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