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is there an automatic image drop into a grid?
Hey guys, just thought id ask the question before spending hours laying up some images. Ive got a customer asking for a load of his pics to be presented in a grid form on an 8x4ft board. He would like it to made up from hundreds of his pics quite small, a couple of inches each. Is there some way of me doing this without having to select each one seperate? i know i could set up an action in photoshop, but would still mean positioning them in a some kind of order?? any ideas 🙂 x please
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i would imagine there would be ben, probably some sort of "nesting function" like you get in vector software programes. trouble there is they auto-rotate the graphics too where i imagine you want these like tons of thumbnails at same sizes? which would then require the pictures to be cropped individually?
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Some adobe products see numbered files
File1.jpg
File2.jpg
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Hi Ben, I can’t think of a specific program but their are a few. Try looking for a ‘Photo Mosaic’ program. Plenty out there, pretty cheap. They loads hundreds of photos and lay them out in a grid, making it look like a picture of something made up of lots of little pictures.
You can leave the main picture out so it will just grid them……. or…. surprise your client… "hey, I can make all your little photos look like this" 😉
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You can do this to a degree in Photoshop, but it’s not very user friendly.
I had to do something similar for a background on a banner.
I’m using CS5 and had to run it in 32bit mode for the option to become visible.
File -> Automate -> Contact Sheet
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I’d use photopaint and record a macro to re-size/crop them as squares (or get them all to 5×7 etc so its uniform)
Using either the "device independant postscript file" virtual printer or print to adobe acrobat distiller. Using the print imposition tool under the layout tab I’d create a page the size of the panel (8′ x 4′ etc) and tell it I want "x" copies wide and "x" copies deep with "x mm" space.
Check out my tutorial on serialised numbering as it explains this at the end. This is for draw but would work the same in photopaint – just dont expect to do much else whilst its processing.
Andy
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