Printing multiple pics on one sheet

[Richard Coencas]

Use File>Print Layouts>Picture Package. It will automatically create a single sheet with your chosen layout using mulitples of the open image. Click on any of the images in the preview and it will let you browse for a replacement for that image. In that way you can have different images layed out on a single sheet.

Rich

[Bill Watt]

Is there any way on PSE2 to get several pics onto one sheet of paper (final form, not a contact sheet).

I have a couple of packages of 8.5 x 11 photo paper and currently print one picture, cut it off the sheet and refeed the remaining portion of the sheet for the next pic. This is less than satisfactory for several reasons.

[Jim Hess]

Here is another technique you might consider if you want to put different images on the same sheet of paper. Create a new Photoshop document and size it 8.5 in. x 11 in.. Make sure that you declare the resolution to be the same as your images. Open each image and copy the entire image. Make the new document that you created active and paste each image onto the new document. Each image will be put on its own layer so that you can move them around and arrange them so that you can maximize the use of paper. Then you can either print that multiplayer document or else you can flatten the image and then print the document.

[Stiffler]

Thanks for the reply.

Richard, I've tried it, but I can only get a duplicate of the same image...I'm can't seem to get different images on the same sheet. (I'm using ver. 2 -- File->Automate->Picture Package).

Jim...I kind of can get it to work, but I can't seem to get the resizing thing down. What do you mean 'flatten the image'?

Thanks, (from a newbie).

Jon

[brent bertram]

Stiffler,
I cut my paper into quarter sheets, and half sheets, and print on those. You can create custom paper sizes and use them just like the standard sized papers.

:-)

Brent

[John R. Collins]

Hi Stiffler,
To resize, select the Move tool and place it inside the picture. Hold down the left mouse button while moving. To resize, place the cursor on one of the corner squares and then press and hold SHIFT and then left click to push/pull the corner to resize the picture. Release the left button to stop the resize. If you don't press the shift, the picture proportions will change.

John

[Stiffler]

Brent, great idea...thanks, I can use that advice.

John Collins, that helps alot! Yea, my proportions were changing. Makes sense now!

Thanks for all the help!

Jon

[Woon-Wah Siu]

I have a different problem with printing photos on a 8.5x11 paper using Picture Package. The 3x5's come out as 3x5, but the 4x6's come out as 4x5.25. (I believe I set up the Text file for the 4x6's correctly.) Has anyone experienced the same problem?

[Eric Lazansky]

Jon,

When I do Picture Packages, I have the the Source at the top read File. Then, lets say I choose the 4-4x5 package. In each "box" on the right, click on it and choose the picture you want in the "box." You can choose a different photo for each "box" this way.

Eric

[Mac McDougald]

Without cropping, the same pixel dimensions can NOT make both a perfect
3x5 AND 4x6.
3x5 aspect ratio becomes either 3.6x6 or 4x6.6.

Different aspect ratios, know whut I mean?

Mac

[Gail H]

Can anyone help me print several different pictures on one 8.5x11 using PSE1? I don't have the same menu pics referenced above and the instructions in the Help file for layering don't seem to work for me. I'm about ready to pack up the whole mess, scanner and all and take it back! This should be a very simple function.

[Jodi Frye]

Gail, I found this for you...conversation that already took place;

Steve, assuming you want different pics on a page; start with a 'new' layer and make it the resolution your pics are ( the pics and new background have to be all the same resolution). Anywhere between 150 and 300 with 300 being best for printing. All I do is bring in the images and drag them on to the new backgound using the 'move' tool. Oh ya, before starting it's best to size up all your images before hand. In other words, if you plan on them being 4 X 6 and 3.5 X 5 etc...on the new sheet. Makes it alot easier to just drag them onto the new layer and move them around without having to re-size them first. Every image you bring in will be on it's own layer so you can play at will with them.

oh ya, background will be the size of your printing paper. It's also a good idea to Do a 'test' print first on plain paper with economy setting.

Hi Beth ;) Ya I have a 'full bleed' printer but Beths measurements below for new background is best if you don't have this kind of printer.

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Beth Haney - 12:13pm Mar 29, 2003 Pacific (#14 of 14)

I'm sorry. I must have missed your post!

First edit all pictures you want to print and make sure they're all the same resolution - something between 150 and 300ppi. Keep them open on your desktop.

Create a new blank canvas that's 8 X 10 1/2 (allowing 1/4 inch print margin for most printers) and either white or transparent. Make sure it's set to the same resolution as your photos.

Select the Move tool and activate your first photo and slide it over onto the new blank canvas. Repeat with the rest. Each image will copy, so you can close the originals after they're moved. Continue using the Move tool to arrange each picture on the new canvas. Any one of them can be rotated if that will let you get a better arrangement.

Hit Print Preview and print. Most people don't bother saving these canvases, but you can if you think you'll be wanting more copies.

Hope this helps

[Nancy Soderman]

Gail,

This is a very simple function. Hold on, please don't get more frustrated, what you want to do is easily accomplished. In the past several people have posted here detailed directions for this function. Let me do a search or write it up again, unless someone posts sooner, I will get back here in a few minutes.

Nancy

[Nancy Soderman]

Gail,

I see you already have directions, however since I already wrote them out, here they are:

In PSE, open all images to your screen that you want to put on one sheet. They will stack up on top of each other. You could, on the top one, hold Ctrl and press the minus sign as many times as you want to get the image small. Right click on the blue title bar of top image. Choose Image Size. Don't change anything but check to see what the resolution is. You can move the images on screen around by clicking on it to make it active and then click and drag it somewhere else on the screen. Repeat the above steps for all images on your screen. Pull the layers palette from the well so it stays down where you can see it.

Create a new canvas, to put all the images on so they can print on one page. The resolution of the canvas must match the images. If all your images are at the same resolution:
* File>New
* Type 8 inches for width, 10.5 inches for height, type in the resolution of your images. Can use white or transparent for Contents.
* New blank canvas is now on screen
* Click on an image to activate it. In the layers palette click and drag the layer to the blank canvas and drop it. If the image has several layers, you must do Layer>Flatten Image on the image first. Close the image you just copied to the blank canvas. Don't worry if they stack up on top of each other.
* Repeat these steps for all images. To move them around and rotate sidewase if needed, click on the layer in the palette, click on the Move Tool, put cursor inside the outline and drag it around on the canvas. For rotating, place cursor just outside outline til it is a double headed curved arrow, twist it around.

NOTE: if all your images were not the same resolution, they will adopt the res. of the canvas. This will change the appearance. You may need to resize one to fit. It is OK to make one smaller, but not good to make one bigger. For smaller, with the outline from the Move Tool, hold cursor at a corner box til you get the straight double arrow. Hold down Shift and drag that corner inwards.

* You can do File>Save As but probably wouldn't want to unless you were going to print this again.

* Now just go ahead and set up your printer for a full sheet and printing quality etc.

You should now be good to go. If you run into a road block just post here again to get it solved.

This is much easier to do than it is to write!!

Nancy

[Gail H]

Thanks, Jodi and Nancy for your responses. I've printed them out and will give it another try.

The problem I was having with the layers was that it wouldn't hold the picture in a layer. Everytime I opened a new picture it filled every layer! Even when I locked the layer.

I did figure out that I could crop and save my picture in PSE and then pull them into the software that came with my digital camera to print. But I shouldn't have to use two different programs to do such a simple function.

Thanks again! I'll let you know if it works for me.

[Linda Waller]

I'm trying to print 4- 3x5's on 1- 8 1/2x11 sheet of paper. I've followed the instructions from previuos post and have gotten the photos onto a new canvas which when I opened it I sized it as an 8x10. The problem I now have is that when I arrange the 4 photos out flat( not layered), they don't fit into the white area. A large portion of each is not shown, thier edges are hidden under the grey area. The print preview shows the same thing. I would like to know how to show all of the 4 photos in thier entirity so I can print them as 4- 3x5's on the same sheet of paper. I have Photo Elements Version 1.

[Nancy Soderman]

Linda,

Sounds like you have a resolution mismatch. Remember, you assign a resolution for the new blank sheet and all images sharing that page must have that same resolution. You will want to set a resolution for your blank sheet from between 200-300 pixels per inch (ppi), which will give you good quality for printing. Printing images with a lower resolution will look crummy; not sharp, jagged edges etc.

You did not say whether you already had your images sized to 3x5". Resolution and printed size have a direct relationship. If all are not the same, since the images will assume the resolution of the whole sheet, they will either be smaller or bigger than the alloted 'space' for four on the sheet.

Ideally, you should have each image at the same resolution as the blank layer before you drop (add) it to the sheet. I think you don't have your images sized at 3x5 (if you do, then the resolution of blank sheet is lower than images). Lower resolution=each pixel occupies more space because they are spread out=bigger physical size when printed (but lesser quality)

Try this; for your new canvas (with the images overlapping on top) go to Image>Resize>Image Size and read what the resolution says. Now change that to a much higher number. OK it and now you'll see that the individual images have 'shrunk', maybe they even fit without overlapping now. However, if your canvas's resolution is higher than the above stated value, you need to correct the size of each image before you drop it on the canvas.

This website has a wonderful explaination of ppi, resolution, printing size, monitor size images...a must read

www.scantips.com