Hello everyone and welcome to another Tuesday here in
cyberspace! Hope that you all are doing
great things with your classes and that photography is still the passion in
your lives and that your studies are just opportunities to hone your skills in
the art!
So, this image should give you a clue of what I am going
to talk about today.
I remember when I started the first photography classes and the
professor asked for contact sheets, sometimes referred to as ‘proofs’. The process is easy (well now it is!) and I
am here to review the process and give you maybe a pointer or two about contact
sheets. Just remember that it could be
worse, back in my younger days (a galaxy far, far away) we used roll of films and
after developing the negatives, we put them on photographic paper in strips of
6 or 7, put a flat glass over them and expose the paper to light for a set
period of time. Later we developed the
paper in stinking chemicals know as developer, stop bath and fixer to get the
contact sheet (you probably read about it in one of your photographic history
classes!).
So, what is the easiest way to do contact sheets? See if the following steps help you:
1.
Import images from your camera into the
Lightroom library.
2.
Select images you want to use to create a
contact sheet. You can do this in
different ways, put them in folder, highlight them and select them, select them
by key words (remember last week blog).
3.
Click on the ‘Print” module of Lightroom, it
should default to contact sheet mode.
4.
Look for the ‘Layout’, go into the page grid on
the right column of the layout style, select and play in how you want your
layout to be.
5.
If you want to use the templates provided by
Lightroom, go to the template browser (on the left side of the page) where you
have several different templates to assist you in the creation of the sheet.
6.
The photo information part will let you post the
necessary information for the images, however this sometimes depends on the
requirements of the class or your professor.
You can customize your selection and use it time after time.
7.
When ready, print to file in jpg mode and then
convert to pdf if required.
There you got it an easy and simple way to create contact
sheets for your classes. My best
recommendation at this time is to practice and play with all the commands in
each module of Lightroom in order to get acquainted and comfortable with
everything. Trust me, no matter how long
is your degree, you will be doing contact sheets for a long period of time!
You want to see how others do contact sheets? Click here
for an example from the web!
Well, there you have it, hope that this helps a little when
creating contact sheets.
And of course here is something to ponder, it is late but I think that it goes well with last week celebrations!
So go ahead and drop me a line and let me know that everything is going ok in your classes, until then, see you around!
Tuesday Ambassador
