Contact Sheet

This is what a film contact sheet looks like.  When people process film in a dark room, the contact sheet is the first print they develop.  They then take it out of the dark room and they are able to better see which of their photos might be successful.

Sometimes we will be making digital contact sheets of our images.  There are many different ways and programs available to help you do this, but we are just going to do a simple version.

Directions:

1. Make sure all the photos you want are in the same folder.
2. Open the folder.  Make it fill your computer screen.
3. Right click in the white background of the folder, hover over VIEW and click THUMBNAILS.
4. Position the thumbnails so that as many of them are on the screen as possible. 
5. Make a screen shot. 
6. Open Paint.NET, click Paste.
7. Your screen image will then open as a photo in Paint.NET
8. Click on the rectangle selection tool.
9. Select as many thumbnails as you can fit into a rectangle.
10. Go to Image..then Crop to Selection.
11. Save your contact sheet in the appropriate folder.  You might want to name it Contact.jpg. The next ones could be Contact1, Contact2, Contact3, etc. 
12. Make more contact sheets if you have more photos.  

When you finish, it will look something like this.