Printing Photos / Images 8 or 10 to a page.

[atart]

Is there a way or a program which enables you to compile a photo collage quickly?

I'm a surveyor who has to take digital photos of building for record purposes and at present I take between 40 to 150 digital photos per site.

The only way I have been able to print these 10 or so to page , is by using word. The problem being the size of the file becomes about 70Mb and very unstable not to mention the time it takes to drag and drop them and to resize all the images.

If anyone has any ideas on how I am able to speed this process up it would be appreciated.

[club_med]

As far as i am informed Adobe Photoshop 6.0 has a built in 'thumbnailer' which resizes photos for you automaticaly.

That would solve half your problem.

Do you have this program ?, its not share/freeware, and costa muchos bucks http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif.

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[OuTpaTienT]

Look into Thumbs Plus, http://www.cerious.com/

This is an EXCELLENT photo thumbnailer/organizer/etc. Using it you can print contact sheets (an array of photos) and size the pictures to whatever you want. You could have 2 per sheet or 100 per sheet. Plus it'll let you organize all your photos and it will keep thumbnails of your photos, even photos that you have offline (stored on CD or whatever).

Go to the above line and grab the shareware download. Try it out. Buy it if you like it. I've been using it for years.

[randy48]

Microsoft Publisher is great for this type work! You copy your photos to the work area and resize and place them any way you want. You can blow them up into posters of any size you wish and more!

[Julio]

I had to do something similar with site photos for a construction project.
I used Graphics Workshop and still do for this kind of thing as well as converting to different images.
It's shareware as well
GWS32.EXE I believe.

[Bsdboy]

I prefer Compupic to either Thumbsplus or
Acdsee,you can check it out and get a trial
here: http://www.photodex.com/

Bsdboy

[sharder8]

I'll have to add my vote for ACDSee.

It does what you want to do even in the 30 day Trial version. That way you can see if you want to spend the money (I did)!

Harder

[atart]

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif Thanks to all above, I've tried all your recommendations ((except the Adobe photoshop v6 as unfortunitely as I already have v5.5 and couldn't see the point in the upgrade?)). It must be said I personally prefer ACDSee (A nice little program, certainly worth a look at and I will definitely be spending the money when my free be runns out).

Thanks again!

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