Assignment #4: CREATING OUR FIRST CONTACT SHEET

HISTORY: a contact sheet is a positive print of all the negative images from one film roll, made by a contact printing process so that all the images are the same size as the negative. A contact sheet is a useful way of seeing which are the best images on a film so you can decide which ones to make enlargements from. ​​

Even though we work digitally, the practice of making a contact sheet is useful so that we can see all images from a shoot, collected in one space. I will have you turn in contact sheets for most assignments moving forward, so let's practice!

• Go to finder and under "applications" search for Adobe Bridge
• once open, select your photos from your desktop and drag into bridge
• Click on "tools" at the top of the bar (image 1)
• Hover over "Photoshop"
• Click "Contact Sheet"

• this menu will show up>
• Make sure you have the right amount of files selected (top of menu)
• Under thumbnails, change the rows and columns to fit the amount of photos you have.
• You can choose to UNCLICK "Rotate for Best Fit" (this will either change horizontal photos to vertical, or vertical to horizontal).
• Unclick "Use Filename as Caption" (we may use this in the future but not yet).
• Click "OK" when you are done. Photoshop will create the image. Be patient, it may take a minute.
• When the contact sheet is ready, name it:
  • Class Period, First&Last name, title (person/place/thing etc).
• See finished contact sheet below:

For your first contact sheet, I'd like you to upload the photos you took for your "NOUN: people, places, and things" Photography Challenge. Some of you might have only taken a few photos. Others might have taken dozens. Upload a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 20.

​Once you've created the contact sheet, upload to "the drive" under "Noun Contact Sheet". Title it with your "Last, First (name), noun CS, class period".