Step by Step Directions for Making a Contact Sheet

First step to making a contact sheet is to create a new document. Go to File, then New. Match your box with the same numbers as above. This will give you your white canvas (page).

Step two is to open your photo. Go to File, Open, and select your photo. If your white box disappears, look in the upper right corner for the double box. Click it, and your white box will reappear.

Go to image, image size, biggest number under document size, set to 4.

Use your arrow\move tool, to click, drag, and drop it onto your white box. Once there, if you need to resize it, go to Edit, Transform, scale.

Now that you have your photos on your white box, you are ready for effects. Remember to look at your layers. They are on top of each other, so if you want one to overlap another, click and drag that layer on top.

If you need to edit photos, go to the correct layer on the right, and then select Image, Adjustments, and work with levels, curves, hue saturation. These will help make your photos stand out and have correct exposure.

In order to create borders, shadows, glows, etc around your photos, go to layer, layer styles.  This will affect what happens around your image. It will make your photos stand out from the background.

These are some of the layer style effects. For your background, double click on the background layer, and then hit OK. This will unlock your layer and allow you to make changes to the background.

Select the T from your toolbox. This will allow you to add text. Remember that your layers stack on top of each other. If your text is not showing up, drag the text layer to the top. Your text will then appear on your contact sheet.

When you are done working for the day, or are finished, you need to save your file. Go to file, save, and then make sure it has either your ID number at the top, or my InFolder, title your file, and hit save.