User Guide

ACDSee Pro 2.5 - User Guide
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Creating a contact sheet
You can create contact sheets — thumbnail previews of your images arranged on pages — that
you can use to organize and share your images. You can use the Create Contact Sheet utility to
save your contact sheets in multiple image formats, and as HTML image maps. You can save
your options as a preset for future use.
The size of the thumbnails depends on how many columns and rows the contact sheet displays,
and how much space is displayed between them.
To create a contact sheet:
1. In the Browser, select the images you want to include, and then click Create | Create
Contact Sheet.
2. In the Contact sheet format area, set the Contact sheet format options.
3. In the Output Settings area, set the Output Settings options.
4. If desired, add or change the text on the page.
5. Click OK.
If you do not specify an output file path, the Create Contact Sheet utility places a
file named Contact Sheet.<ext> in your default image folder. For multiple-page
contact sheets, the utility adds a number to the file name; for example, Contact
Sheet3.bmp.
Contact sheet format options
Thumbnail
settings
Size Specifies the number of columns and rows to create on each
page.
Spacing Creates a frame around each thumbnail. Specifies the
amount of space between rows or columns. In the
Horizontal and Vertical spin boxes, type a value to indicate
the amount of space to display.
Frame options Use
thumbnail
frame
Creates a frame around each thumbnail.
Margin Specifies the width of the frame.
Solid color Specifies the frame's color. Click the color picker to define a
color.
Tiled image Specifies an image to use as a frame. Click Browse to locate
the image you want to use.
Thumbnail
options
Colored drop
shadow
Creates a drop shadow effect around each thumbnail. Click
the color picker to define a color.
Colored
edge fade
Creates a fading frame effect around the image. Click the
color picker to define a color.