"creating" a contact sheet from scanned images

PhilBurton · Mar 4, 2021

This thread https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/super-easy-digital-contact-sheet-of-film.175532/#post-2391681 got me thinking. Is it possible to scan any kind of film, and then somehow to combine say 36 images onto a contact sheet which is then printed.

I like to use contact sheets but I don't have a flatbed scanner right now. I'm saving up my pennies for something like an Epson V750 or better.

Pieter12 · Mar 4, 2021

PhilBurton said:
This thread https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/super-easy-digital-contact-sheet-of-film.175532/#post-2391681 got me thinking. Is it possible to scan any kind of film, and then somehow to combine say 36 images onto a contact sheet which is then printed.

I like to use contact sheets but I don't have a flatbed scanner right now. I'm saving up my pennies for something like an Epson V750 or better.

Yes. I do it all the time for both 120 and 35mm. Pretty simple, just takes some extra time.

titrisol · Mar 4, 2021

Uber simple in Irfanview

MattKing · Mar 4, 2021

FastStone Image Viewer has that functionality built in.
Here is an example from a partly damaged roll that I chose to include just 3 of the 8 negatives on:

The file names are inserted by the program - I identify files by the date and the negative number.

Les Sarile · Mar 4, 2021

Been using Acdsee's create contact sheet for a number of years now and you pick the images and tell it number of rows, columns, pixel width and height away. In this example, I select the images, tell it 9 rows and 9 columns and it made this. You can also choose to add filenames, exif info or a whole myriad of options if you want.

Acdsee is like a Swiss army knife of image editing and managing tools. They have a trial version you can download to try.

PhilBurton · Mar 4, 2021

Pieter12 said:
Yes. I do it all the time for both 120 and 35mm. Pretty simple, just takes some extra time.

How?

RalphLambrecht · Mar 4, 2021

PhilBurton said:
This thread https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/super-easy-digital-contact-sheet-of-film.175532/#post-2391681 got me thinking. Is it possible to scan any kind of film, and then somehow to combine say 36 images onto a contact sheet which is then printed.

I like to use contact sheets but I don't have a flatbed scanner right now. I'm saving up my pennies for something like an Epson V750 or better.

PS has a built-in feature for this!

grat · Mar 4, 2021

Search for "create digital contact sheets". There's a few billion answers out there.

It's literally doable from within Windows 10 file manager.

Pieter12 · Mar 5, 2021

PhilBurton said:
How?

Simple. I scan the negs in a sleeve page either 1 strip at time for 120, 2 at a time for 35mm, then assemble the strips in Photoshop and print.

PhilBurton · Mar 5, 2021

grat said:
Search for "create digital contact sheets". There's a few billion answers out there.

It's literally doable from within Windows 10 file manager.

Thanks. I have no idea why I didn't do that before posting this query. You were right. Lots of hits. This is my favorite, since I already use Lightroom: https://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-create-contact-sheets-in-lightroom/

Phil

Horatio · Mar 5, 2021

I’ve been thinking about contact sheets as well recently. Lightroom CC does not offer the print module, at least not that I can tell. I need to install the classic version sometime and try this, as well as the book-making feature. I’ll also try PS.

PhilBurton · Mar 6, 2021

Horatio said:
I’ve been thinking about contact sheets as well recently. Lightroom CC does not offer the print module, at least not that I can tell. I need to install the classic version sometime and try this, as well as the book-making feature. I’ll also try PS.

I should have written that I use Lightroom desktop a/k/a Classic

Bikerider · Mar 6, 2021

Horatio said:
I’ve been thinking about contact sheets as well recently. Lightroom CC does not offer the print module, at least not that I can tell. I need to install the classic version sometime and try this, as well as the book-making feature. I’ll also try PS.

The current version of Photoshop has this as one of the standard functions. Go to...... file> near the bottom is the word Automate click on this and then open the folder where you have the images and then click OK. I find it best to scan at 300dpi with the target size as the original. A 36 exp film will take about 30 seconds to arrange all the images into another folder. I use these as a reference when I am looking for a particular negative. Medium format negs can be scanned at a lower resolution, say 72dpi.

"creating" a contact sheet from scanned images

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