PICTURE PACKAGE

[bcares1]

Is there a third party plug-in to replace Picture Package in CS6? Why would Adobe do away with a very popular and necessary part of PS?

[janelle_f]

Have you tried Contact Sheet II?

this document gives instructions in creating your own picture package:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yX1q2M0SXPirxVMPRyspL9c4ijTT0KJuaXUBBQAHyCo/edit?pli=1

-janelle flores

[bcares1]

Thanks. I have, but it won't allow you to place different size photos on

the same layout (1-5x7,2-3x5,4-wallet,etc). Picture Package was easy,

convenient and fast.

[station_two]

bcares1 wrote:

…to place different size photos on the same layout (1-5x7,2-3x5,4-wallet,etc). Picture Package was easy,

convenient and fast.

I fully agree, and it's one of the reasons I keep Photoshop 11.0.2 ("CS4") installed and ready to go.  Another reason is Grain Surgery2.  There are more…

On the Mac, I can even open more than one version of Photoshop running, just by opening the older version(s) first and assigning different scratch disk volumes to each version..

[bcares1]

After reading through all the forum discussions (arguments?), I guess

that's what I'll be doing also. I'm just upset that Adobe never seems to

bother asking the people that use their products what features they want or

need. Having to keep several versions of the same software loading up the

hard drive is a pain!

[station_two]

bcares1 wrote:

…I'm just upset that Adobe never seems to bother…

You might be interested in post #5 in this other thread.  CLICK here.

[bcares1]

Apparently there isn't a third party plug-in yet to replace it because

nothing pops up on any of my searches.

[MikeKPhoto]

Like you I missed the picture package, but ended up with a product called Qimage and have not looked back. Enables you not only build picture packages, but a great print productivity tool and money saver. Apart from picture packages, it has many templates like printing two up 5x7's on one page, but with the custom feature it is a pice of cake to print panoramas side by side - good paper savings - also has an auto layout feature.  Not too badly priced and has the ability to use outpot profiles.

Mike

[Noel Carboni]

Wow, is QImage still around?  I bought a copy a bizillion years ago and after a while I didn't keep up with updates.  That was back in the day when print drivers didn't do a good job of interpolation, and it overcame that by using better algorithms.  Its page layout stuff started out a bit clunky and got better when I was using it.

Even if it just does what the last version I looked at did, that is a very good suggestion, Mike.

-Noel

[MikeKPhoto]

Yup still around, I am still running V2010 and runs great on Win7 x64, but there are more recent editions available

[bcares1]

I'll take a look at QImage. It sounds like it would fit the bill, but I

still reserve the right to be mad at Adobe! Thanks for the suggestion.

[station_two]

Thanks for mentioning it, Mike.  Qimage appears to be moderately priced, but…  it's Windows only.

[bcares1]

If its for Windows only, its back to the drawing board...

[MikeKPhoto]

Yes that is a kicker. A while back I was a Mac person, but ran Qimage on an el-cheapo laptop just for printing from Qimage had the images on a share drive and all worked great - I bought an HP netbook from Fry's for about $200 and run a few of my legacy products - like the famous WS-FTP - still my fav FTP client.

Mike

[station_two]

MikeKPhoto wrote:

…ran Qimage on an el-cheapo laptop just for printing from Qimage…

As long as it's not a plug-in that would require a second Photoshop license (for Macintosh), that's a great idea.  It would even run on my cheap Toshiba which has Windows Vista. 

[MikeKPhoto]

Yup it is a standalone program not a plugin and works great on XP and Vista so no Adobe licensing issue at all

[bcares1]

I too have a cheap (read slow) pc so maybe I'll be try Image. Im tired of

the chatting with someone in India who's trying to tell me that Contact

Sheet II is the solution to my dilemma.

[station_two]

I'm glad you brought it up, Mike.  Now it'll come up in a forum or Google search! 

[Noel Carboni]

MikeKPhoto wrote:

a few of my legacy products - like the famous WS-FTP - still my fav FTP client.

Sorry about going a bit off-topic, but Mike, for really nice integration with Windows, try the WebDrive product.  I upgraded from WS-FTP to that.

There's nothing like having a network drive connected to an FTP server for easy access in Windows.  Just drag and drop files in Explorer windows, run comparison tools between local copies and web sites...  Great stuff.

-Noel

[station_two]

bcares1 wrote:

Is there a third party plug-in to replace Picture Package in CS6? Why would Adobe do away with a very popular and necessary part of PS?

You may find this recently concluded thread interesting intriguing:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4554823

[JJMack]

If your running on Windows you can install the 64bit and 32 bit CS5 ContactsheetII plug-in into CS6. CS6 ContactsheetII is installed into Adobe's Required folder and will co-exist with CS5 plug-in installed into the Plug-in folder setup for third party plug-ins. In the Photoshop menu File>Automate> you will see two ContactsheeII itemes and one Picture Package items.  Picture Package use to be in ContactSheeII. ContactSheetII was changes in CS6 for thers were errors in its dialog with the preview thumbnail and the size images would be and for some reason Adobe removed Picture Package from ContactSheetII in CS6. If you install the CS5 Plug-ins in CS6 do not forget to copy the Layout Folder into Presets Picture Packages needs that folder contents.

Mac user are out of luck here because CS5 ContactSheetII plug-in is only available in a 32Bit version and there is no Mac CS6 32bit Photoshop.

Mac and PC users can use my Photoshop Photo Collage Toolkit in CS6 as a poorer replacement for Picture Package.  There are two scripts in that package useful for Pictire Packages.

1.) PasteImageRoll for creating single image size picture packages in a single document for pring on roll paper

2.) BatchPicturePackage will create Picture Package Collages. You need to create templates for the Picture Package layouts Images will be rotated for proper orintation.

Look at the following thread http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1014453?start=0&tstart=0

Picture Package Collage template http://www.mouseprints.net/old/dpr/PicturePackage3Prints.psd

Message was edited by: JJMack

[INeedABag]

These are the steps I took to enable the CS 5 Picture Package in CS 6 (64 bit):

Downloaded PSCS5OptionalPlugins_Win_en_US.zip  for from http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/thankyou.jsp?ftpID=4688&fileID=4376

Unzipped file to give C:\Downloads\Adobe CS\Plugin module\PSCS5OptionalPlugins_Win_en_US.zip\PSCS5OptionalPlugins_Win_en_US\Optional Plug-Ins\Win64:

Copied ContactSheetII to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Required\Plug-Ins\Automate:

Copied C:\Downloads\Adobe CS\Plugin module\PSCS5OptionalPlugins_Win_en_US.zip\PSCS5OptionalPlugins_Win_en_US\Presets\Layouts to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Presets:

Restarted Photoshop CS 6.  Photo Package will be listed under the Automate options under the first Contact II.

[ledeane]

Is it possible to instal Picture Package in Photoshop CC?  I have tried the above instructions and get the message that it could not complete because this version of Photoshop does not supply the services required by tis plug-in module. thanks  jc

[JJMack]

If your on a PC perhaps the PC cs5 versions can be. If not perhaps my scripts will work.

[Jeff Arola]

Unfortunaly the picture package, web photo gallery and contact sheet II plugins from cs5 no longer work in photoshop cc on windows.

They definitely won't work in the mac version of photoshop cc either.

I believe they won't work on the windows version of photoshop cc because the deprecated adobe dialog manager among other things, was finally removed in photoshop cc.