How To Make A Contact Sheet In Bridge Cs6

?CS6 Contact Sheet II -Black background - please help

Londongal • Senior Member • Posts: 1,918

?CS6 Contact Sheet II -Black background - please help

May 29, 2014

Hi Everyone,

I need to make "contact sheets" with either CS6 or LR5. I figured out how to do it in Photoshop with File>Automate>Contact Sheet II.

Can I create a black background for this contact sheet? The default (and only) background colour that I can see is white. White will not work for my purposes.

I am looking to create a contact sheet like those from print days. I need to be able to place specific images on the sheet with a black background; ideally automated so I don't mess up the lines and spacing.

Any help on how to do this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks so much!!!
Londongal

Re: ?CS6 Contact Sheet II -Black background - please help

You can uncheck the box to flatten all layers.  Then place a Solid Color (black) layer above the first white fill layer.  If you have text, then you will have to edit each text layer to a color that will show up on black.

Ronny

Re: ?CS6 Contact Sheet II -Black background - please help

You can do it in adobe bridge within any version of photoshop. Link to video below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOKqJ8cqYKw

Regards Patsym

OP Londongal • Senior Member • Posts: 1,918

Re: ?CS6 Contact Sheet II -Black background - please help

Ronny Harris wrote:

You can uncheck the box to flatten all layers. Then place a Solid Color (black) layer above the first white fill layer. If you have text, then you will have to edit each text layer to a color that will show up on black.

Ronny

Hi Ronny,

Thank you so much for your reply!!! I just tried it, it works perfectly and is so easy. I have a meeting (with very short notice) regarding some photos I have from decades ago and the contact sheet is very important to me as an additional way to show my collection.  Luckily, I don't need text, but now know how to work with text as well.

Best wishes,

Londongal

OP Londongal • Senior Member • Posts: 1,918

Re: ?CS6 Contact Sheet II -Black background - please help

Patsy Murphy wrote:

You can do it in adobe bridge within any version of photoshop. Link to video below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOKqJ8cqYKw

Regards Patsym

Hi Patsy,

Thank you so much for your reply as well!!!  I have not used Bridge for years and opened it this afternoon to build a contact sheet. I tried a different set of instructions (found online), but for some reason I could not find the necessary components within Bridge to create a contact sheet. I was wondering if I was blind, but gave up because I am so short on time. I will check out this video to see if I can get Bridge to function properly.  Until then, I successfully followed Ronny's instructions and it works

Best wishes,

Londongal

Yep, best answer, Patsy. :-) nt

Ronny

OP Londongal • Senior Member • Posts: 1,918

Re: Yep, best answer, Patsy. :-) nt

Hi Patsy & Ronnie,

I tried the video/Bridge tutorial again. What is tripping me up is that in my Bridge Window, after selecting "OUTPUT" I do not have an output window. There is no ability to select PDF or Web Gallery, nor a document or layout drop down menu.  I don't know what I'm doing wrong... I have Bridge with CS6.  Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Londongal

Re: Yep, best answer, Patsy. :-) nt

Try this.  In Bridge, go to Window>Workspace>Reset Workspace then Window>Workspace>Output.

Ronny

OP Londongal • Senior Member • Posts: 1,918

Re: Yep, best answer, Patsy. :-) nt

Ronny Harris wrote:

Try this. In Bridge, go to Window>Workspace>Reset Workspace then Window>Workspace>Output.

Ronny

Hi Ronny,

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it and nothing changed. This is what my Bridge 6 (and Bridge 5) Output window looks like. All other windows (metadata etc) have the full complement of functions/drop down menus available in them. It is only Output that is showing up blank.

Have you (or anyone) encountered this before? I'm on a Mac.

I have not used Bridge for years, use LR instead, so am not familiar with it anymore. Also, the books I have are LR/PS related, nothing that can guide me for this issue in Bridge.

The contact sheets created in Bridge are more visually appealing than those created in Contact Sheet II, so if I can fix this, I would like to. However, it is not a deal breaker, as your "fill layer" suggestion works perfectly.

Thank you for you help,

Londongal

Output Window: No windows, PDF, Web Output etc available

Art Jacks • Veteran Member • Posts: 3,234

Re: Yep, best answer, Patsy. :-) nt

I am working on a mac but I have just made a contact sheet in Bridge itself ( I am using CS6 standalone ), I selected the folder of required images which show up as a strip at the bottom of my screen, I then click select all go to window/workspace then output which opens the custom dialog box where you can specify layout, background colour, text colour, it is important to press the refresh button to see the changes, there is a save button at the bottom. I am enclosing a jpeg version of the PDF file I made following the instructions posted earlier in the thread.

OP Londongal • Senior Member • Posts: 1,918

Re: Yep, best answer, Patsy. :-) nt

Art Jacks wrote:

I am working on a mac but I have just made a contact sheet in Bridge itself ( I am using CS6 standalone ), I selected the folder of required images which show up as a strip at the bottom of my screen, I then click select all go to window/workspace then output which opens the custom dialog box where you can specify layout, background colour, text colour, it is important to press the refresh button to see the changes, there is a save button at the bottom. I am enclosing a jpeg version of the PDF file I made following the instructions posted earlier in the thread.

Hi Art,

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply, and for your jpeg.  I followed your directions a few times, and exactly as you wrote them. My version of Bridge still is not giving me a custom dialogue box, nor is it giving me the ability to select between PDF and save to web.  The Output Box remains completely blank, no matter what I do.  Could it be my copy of CS6? not sure.

I am stumped.  I would still like to create a couple of nice contact sheets that look like the ones Bridge can produce; but failing that, i will have to take another approach because something is not working properly (could be me) and I am running short on time.  The fallback position is in Photoshop with Contact Sheet II.

Regards,

Londongal

As an alternative, since you mention Lightroom, you can use the Print module directly to do this, right from your live working images as seen there, without needing to export any intermediates or involving Photoshop.

Set up the page size and the number of rows and columns and the margins on the page and between the image cells, and any text label you want below each image. Set whether the images should rotate to fit or not, and whether they should zoom to fill (self-crop) or not.

The Page panel includes an option to change the page background colour. Image labels (such as filename) automatically switch between black text when the background is white or pale, and white text when the background is dark or black.

If you set the output to JPG you can save that right out. You have control over the resolution (PPI) of the JPG that is made, as well as over colourspace and output sharpening.

You can either accept the native page size rendered at your chosen PPI, or else override that to a different page size as you prefer. Either way, that combination of notional scaling and PPI is what defines the pixel dimensions produced.

For example:

RP

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suddie1215 • Veteran Member • Posts: 3,818

Re: Yep, best answer, Patsy. :-) nt

Do you have the latest version of Bridge CS6? If you click on Help > Adobe Bridge it should say version 5.0.2. If it doesn't click on Help > Updates and allow the Adobe Updater to grab all the available updates for your software.

My guess is that your version of Bridge is missing the Adobe Output Module which is used to generate contact sheets; updating to the latest version should solve that problem.

Londongal wrote:

Art Jacks wrote:

I am working on a mac but I have just made a contact sheet in Bridge itself ( I am using CS6 standalone ), I selected the folder of required images which show up as a strip at the bottom of my screen, I then click select all go to window/workspace then output which opens the custom dialog box where you can specify layout, background colour, text colour, it is important to press the refresh button to see the changes, there is a save button at the bottom. I am enclosing a jpeg version of the PDF file I made following the instructions posted earlier in the thread.

Hi Art,

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply, and for your jpeg. I followed your directions a few times, and exactly as you wrote them. My version of Bridge still is not giving me a custom dialogue box, nor is it giving me the ability to select between PDF and save to web. The Output Box remains completely blank, no matter what I do. Could it be my copy of CS6? not sure.

I am stumped. I would still like to create a couple of nice contact sheets that look like the ones Bridge can produce; but failing that, i will have to take another approach because something is not working properly (could be me) and I am running short on time. The fallback position is in Photoshop with Contact Sheet II.

Regards,

Londongal

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OP Londongal • Senior Member • Posts: 1,918

Re: do it in LR instead?

richardplondon wrote:

As an alternative, since you mention Lightroom, you can use the Print module directly to do this, right from your live working images as seen there, without needing to export any intermediates or involving Photoshop.

Set up the page size and the number of rows and columns and the margins on the page and between the image cells, and any text label you want below each image. Set whether the images should rotate to fit or not, and whether they should zoom to fill (self-crop) or not.

The Page panel includes an option to change the page background colour. Image labels (such as filename) automatically switch between black text when the background is white or pale, and white text when the background is dark or black.

If you set the output to JPG you can save that right out. You have control over the resolution (PPI) of the JPG that is made, as well as over colourspace and output sharpening.

You can either accept the native page size rendered at your chosen PPI, or else override that to a different page size as you prefer. Either way, that combination of notional scaling and PPI is what defines the pixel dimensions produced.

For example:

RP

Richard, thank you, thank you, thank you! Lightroom is understandable for me. This is key: "If you set the output to JPG you can save that right out" and is new info to me. I print from Photoshop, and did not think of saving out a JPG from the print module. I will give it a try !!! I am showing images from many years ago, and crossing a border to do it. I do not want to take the original slides for numerous reasons. Thus my struggling to do something very unfamiliar in a very short period of time.

Thanks again, I will post back when I give it a try.

Regards,

Londongal

OP Londongal • Senior Member • Posts: 1,918

Re: Yep, best answer, Patsy. :-) nt

suddie1215 wrote:

Do you have the latest version of Bridge CS6? If you click on Help > Adobe Bridge it should say version 5.0.2. If it doesn't click on Help > Updates and allow the Adobe Updater to grab all the available updates for your software.

My guess is that your version of Bridge is missing the Adobe Output Module which is used to generate contact sheets; updating to the latest version should solve that problem.

Hi suddie,

I think you are absolutely right, my version is missing the output module (how could that happen?) I'm on Bridge CS6, version 5.0.2.4  Not sure what to do at this point, as I don't have much time to problem solve. Once I'm finished this project I can sort it out.  Until then, I think LR should do what I am hoping to achieve.

Thank you so much for your reply.  The people on these forums are amazing!

Cheers,

Londongal

suddie1215 • Veteran Member • Posts: 3,818

Re: Yep, best answer, Patsy. :-) nt

Start Adobe Bridge and go to Preferences.  In the Startup Scripts panel, check to see if Adobe Output Module is listed as one of the scripts, and if it is checked/ticked.  If its there and unchecked, then activate it.

Londongal wrote:

suddie1215 wrote:

Do you have the latest version of Bridge CS6? If you click on Help > Adobe Bridge it should say version 5.0.2. If it doesn't click on Help > Updates and allow the Adobe Updater to grab all the available updates for your software.

My guess is that your version of Bridge is missing the Adobe Output Module which is used to generate contact sheets; updating to the latest version should solve that problem.

Hi suddie,

I think you are absolutely right, my version is missing the output module (how could that happen?) I'm on Bridge CS6, version 5.0.2.4 Not sure what to do at this point, as I don't have much time to problem solve. Once I'm finished this project I can sort it out. Until then, I think LR should do what I am hoping to achieve.

Thank you so much for your reply. The people on these forums are amazing!

Cheers,

Londongal

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OP Londongal • Senior Member • Posts: 1,918

Re: do it in LR instead?

richardplondon wrote:

As an alternative, since you mention Lightroom, you can use the Print module directly to do this, right from your live working images as seen there, without needing to export any intermediates or involving Photoshop.

Set up the page size and the number of rows and columns and the margins on the page and between the image cells, and any text label you want below each image. Set whether the images should rotate to fit or not, and whether they should zoom to fill (self-crop) or not.

Hi Richard,

This is working, but I'm getting a white border surrounding my black background that I can not get rid of.  Do you know how I can have a solid black background with no border? I must be blind...

Thanks!

OP Londongal • Senior Member • Posts: 1,918

Re: Yep, best answer, Patsy. :-) nt

suddie1215 wrote:

Start Adobe Bridge and go to Preferences. In the Startup Scripts panel, check to see if Adobe Output Module is listed as one of the scripts, and if it is checked/ticked. If its there and unchecked, then activate it

Hi suddie,

This is a pic of my start up scrips in Bridge.

suddie1215 • Veteran Member • Posts: 3,818

Re: Yep, best answer, Patsy. :-) nt

Try clicking on the Reveal my Startup Scripts button and see if the hidden/missing scripts appear in the list.  If not, shut down Bridge and reset it by holding down the Option key and double-clicking the Bridge desktop icon.  You will see a small dialog box with options to reset preferences; check/tick them all to reset Bridge to its defaults, then check to see if the Output module appears in the list of scripts.

Londongal wrote:

suddie1215 wrote:

Start Adobe Bridge and go to Preferences. In the Startup Scripts panel, check to see if Adobe Output Module is listed as one of the scripts, and if it is checked/ticked. If its there and unchecked, then activate it

Hi suddie,

This is a pic of my start up scrips in Bridge.

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Hi Richard,

This is working, but I'm getting a white border surrounding my black background that I can not get rid of. Do you know how I can have a solid black background with no border? I must be blind...

You may need to first establish the page layout as "borderless", instead of whatever unprintable physical page margins it is currently working to. LR gets these print limits from the printer driver and thereafter observes them. That does not allow you to extend your printing area to transgress into those clear page edges. I suspect your background colour has been affected by the same thing.

To change that, switch the output from JPG back to Printer, and then go into your printer settings as if you were setting LR up to make a physical print. Select a borderless option within that proprietary printer settings dialog. Then come back out of the print settings and LR is now working on the basis of having zero unprintable margins to the page. Change back to JPG output.

If the particular printer driver that you have installed does not provide any borderless option, you would unfortunately need to employ a different printer driver which does.

It is helpful to first test, and then save this whole contact sheet setup - as a new, user defined and named, custom print preset which includes the borderless option and the selection of JPG as your output. So you only have to do all this once, and then recall it all again wholesale in the future.

regards, RP

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