"Contact" Sheet Software

<p>I'm wanting to take one of my SD cards and make "contact sheets" from them. What I'm wanting is to print thumbnails or slightly larger of every photo on a card, with the camera's file number AND the date/time the photo was taken. What software will allow me to do this from existing cards?</p>

<p>Kent in SD</p>

<p>IrfanView will make contact sheets and label the images with file names.</p>

<p>I don't know whether you can automate date/time labels from EXIF data. You can automate the file date/time. IrfanView is Windows only.</p>

Lightroom.

<p>. . . or PS CS6 and earlier. Pretty quick.</p>

<p>I use a user-friendly program called Printstation.</p>

<p>http://www.picmeta.com/en</p>

<p>It's now in Vers. 4.14. I paid something like $15 for V 2 about 10 years ago and all updates are free. </p>

<p>It has all the customizability I could ever want, with all kinds of printable metadata and format choices....you can print anything from 1 to 200 per page with a mix of sizes and/or portrait/landscape options. Labels are font, size and colour selectable etc...and can be in, on or under the frame with headers and footers as-well.</p>

<p>I think it has a free downloadable trial.</p>

<p>Nikon View NX2 will do exactly what you want, and it'll handle the RAW as well as JPG's.</p>

<p>While I'm with Ellis on Lightroom for this, Bridge also manages contact sheets with Photoshop.</p>

<p>Faststone image viewer can do configurable contacts sheets. Print to pdf or whatever.<br /> It's free and no ads. I use it as an alternative browser to photo mechanic as I don't have that installed on all my machines.</p>

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<p>It's just a 5 MB download and installs quickly.</p>

<p>What the responses here make clear is that you have to say what platform(s) you are using. Irfanview, Picmeta and Fastone are Windows-only. Nikon View NX2 is Nikon only. Unless you specify a camera type and a computer platform, it's hard to recommend anything other than what Ellis recommends.</p>

<p>Macintosh has iPhoto, $15. It prints contact sheets that can be customized with how many columns, and labels.</p>

<p>Here is a screen shot.</p><div></div>

<p>I second the nomination for FastSTone... it may be free but I make a small contribution now and then. It's an essential part of my workflow. A couple of features I especially like: batch resizing and batch renaming. You can also do text on the photo, as well as arrows - handy for pointing to a particular item in the photo.</p>

<p>Paul</p>

<p>PhotoMechanic (available for both OS X and Windows 8) can produce either a .PDF proof sheet, or can directly output to a printer in a layout virtually identical to the iPhoto screenshot above. The application offers a huge array of sorting variables, plus a user-definable number of rows and columns. It's also an excellent ingest manager, viewer, and IPTC editor. Used extensively by agency/wireservice shooters, the $150 single-user license fee permits use on up to <em>three</em> computers, plus, you can mix and match OS platforms with the same license.</p>

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