premade templates

[kevinbriggs]

My wife and I are presently involved in printing a select number of family

portraits on an Epson Stylus printer. These portraits were taken with the Canon 5D.

 

We are wondering if there is a template-based program on the market (hopefully

one that is not too expensive or even one that is free) which enables us to drop

in these very large photo files into preformatted templates that come in

standard photo sizes, e.g. 5 x 7, 8 x 10, etc.?

 

Trying to scale everything within Photoshop -- printing directly from Photoshop

-- is proving to be quite problematic. It's too time consuming.

 

We just want a program that will resize and rescale such large photo files

automatically into these premade templates.

 

Does anyone have any ideas?

 

Thanks for all suggestions!

[silverdae]

Doesn't "photo package" in Photoshop do that automatically instead of you having to print each one individually?

[wogears]

Do you want software to do your cropping for you? You might cut off Uncle Roger's head.

[justinblake]

Irfanview will let you batch scale/resize images if that is what you are looking to do.

[kevinbriggs]

Jen,

 

Thanks very much for the information on "Picture Package" in Photoshop. I had not used this particular feature before.

 

Unfortunately, I'm running into a bit of a problem with the automation:

 

One of the presets is supposedly a dual 5 x 7 template. Yet when you actually print it out, they are not 5 x 7. They are smaller.

 

Attempting to customize my own personal template doesn't work either. Every time it prints -- no matter what size -- it is always smaller (by about 30%).

 

Anyone have any ideas...?

 

Thanks!