Can't get Contact Sheet II to work in PE 2024

[Serial Dabbler]

I'm working on a MacBook Air/M1 processor/Sonoma 14.4.1. When I originally installed PE2024 (Dec 2023) I could make contact sheets without a problem up until about a month ago. I tried to find the Contact Sheets Preferences to trash it (as suggested in another community discussion thread) but haven't been able to so I uninstalled PE and reinstalled a fresh copy of PE 2024. Still no luck. Please HELP!!

[hatstead · Accepted solution]

One can do it manually. 

1. Open the Editor, Advanced tab.

2. Go to File>new> blank file, and set the dimensions according to your paper stock. For resolution, it is desirable to have it in the 240-300 px/in range. Ideally the picture files should be in this range as well. If they are not, you can batch process multiple files via File>Process multiple files in order to adjust the resolution.

3. Do the math, and crop your pictures so that they will fit on the canvas (from step #2)

4. Go to File>place and point to your pictures, and place. Each one will come in on a separate layer, and you arrange them to suit and make minor size adjustments with the corner handles.

5. It sounds more complicated that it is, but you have 100% control of the process.

[Serial Dabbler]

This process is not a batch process, is it? I can only place one image at a time which is going to be onerous when I'm dealing with 100 images or more.

[Jeff Arola · Accepted solution]

The Contact Sheet II preferences are in your User folder which is hidden by default on Macs

(on Windows as well)

Macintosh HD/Users/UserName/Library/Preferences/Adobe/Elements/24.0/Adobe Contact Sheet II

then trash the

Adobe Contact Sheet Prefs

An easy way to get there is click on your desktop then click Go and while pressing the Option key

you should see Library, which is your User Library.

Another way is to click on your desktop, then in the Go menu click Go to Folder and paste

~/Library/Preferences/Adobe/Elements/24.0/Adobe Contact Sheet II

[Serial Dabbler]

Thank you both so much!  I FINALLY was able to trash the preferences and get the Contact Sheet II option to work. I also appreciate the first suggestion of creating my own contact sheet.