CS2 Contact sheet II function

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David_Calvert
May 12, 2005
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Have been using the Contact Sheet II function in the Automate section of CS2.

When using CS, you could see the thumbnail images being formed and placed on the contact sheet, which was good because you could see if the layout looked OK and monitor the general progress of the sheet. I have noticed with CS2 Contact Sheet II that you cannot see the above and all I can see is the sheet with the transparent background. You cannot see the thumbnails being laid out – until all of the contact sheets have been produced in the run, which I find quite irritating. I preferred seeing them being laid out as you can on CS.

Is this just happening on me or is there something I have missed here?

If its any help here my ‘puter specs are: Pentium 4 266, 1gb RAM (soon to be increased to 2gb), 160gb HDD.

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chrisjbirchall
May 12, 2005
This has been implimented in CS2 to speed up the creation of Contact sheets and Web Galleries. I am not aware of any option to switch back to the old system. Not that I would want to personally, as this way is so much quicker.

Chris.
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David_Calvert
May 13, 2005
I haven’t noticed that its any quicker at all.
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chrisjbirchall
May 13, 2005
I haven’t noticed that its any quicker at all.

It would depend upon the machine’s video/graphics capabilities I guess. From what I gather the theory is that time is saved drawing the images to screen during the process.

Admittedly with Contact sheet the images are so small as to make little difference. I do notice a speed benefit during the creation of web galleries though.

It’s not, however, one of the most earth-shaking improvements in CS2! <g>

Chris

(By the way. Is this the same David Calvert, MPA member from Hertfordshire?)

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