Circles Collage using Contact Sheet Photoshop
Here is a quick tutorial on how to create a circles collage of photos in Photoshop using Contact Sheet. #JTSGraph #PhotoEffect #collage #ContactSheet
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:26 Prepare your source images
00:37 Create an Action to Resize Photos
04:08 Start Resizing All Photos
05:41 Create Contact Sheet
1. Create a folder to hold photos.
Prepare 100 photos or more.
2. Copy 100 Photos into the "Source" Folder.
3. Open the First Photo.
Choose File-Open (or Ctrl+O).
Open the "original" folder, click the first photo then click Open.
4. Create an Action to Resize Photos.
Open the Action panel by selecting the Windows-Actions (or Alt+F9).
Click the Create new Action icon on the Action panel.
Name the Action, for example "Change-Photo-Size", then click Record.
5. Record the Change Photo Size Action.
Choose Image-Image Size (or Alt+Ctrl+I).
Fill in Width 300 pixels, Height 300 pixels, Resolution 200 px,
check Resample Image, select Bicubic Sharper.
Do not check Constraint Proportion so that there are no boundaries between photos.
Click OK.
Now you should see the photo has been processed to be smaller with the same size, namely 300cm x 300cm.
Click stop playing recording.
Close the photo by choosing File-Close (Ctrl+W), no need to save the resized results.
Now you have an Action to change the size of the photo with the name Edit-Photo-Size-300x300.
We will call this Action in the next process.
6. Start Resizing All Photos.
Choose File-Scripts-Image Processor...
in the first number (1. Select the image to process) select the "original" folder,
in the second number (2. select location to save processed images) select the "edit" folder to save the results,
and in the fourth number (4. Preferences) select the "Change-Size-Photo" action.
Click Run.
Please wait a few moments until all your photos are processed.
7. Create a Contact Sheet
Choose File-Automate-Contact Sheet II menu.
The Contact Sheet II dialog window will appear.
Select the "resize" folder, unit: pixels, width: 3000, height: 3000, resolution 300 pixels/inch,
place: across first, column: 10, rows: 10. Click the OK button.
Wait a few moments until Photoshop finishes creating your Contact Sheet.