Make a photo contact sheet

A contact sheet is a series of small photo proofs on fixed-size pages. This tool paginates the grid rather than stretching all photos onto one continuous canvas. It is useful for choosing favourites or discussing numbered images. Use Merge Photos when you want a single combined image instead.

A4 pages measure 210 × 297 mm; US Letter pages measure 8.5 × 11 inches. Both use portrait orientation, a 24-point outer margin and an 8-point gap between cells. Rows and columns range from 1 to 8. For example, 25 photos in a 4-row by 5-column layout produce two pages: 20 photos on the first and five on the second.

Every thumbnail fits inside its cell without cropping or stretching. Empty space remains when the photo and cell proportions differ. Optional labels use the image position in the ordered file list: 1, 2, 3 and so on. Filenames are not printed, so long names and unsupported filename glyphs cannot replace or obscure a label. The preview shows numbered positions for checking pagination even when printed labels are turned off.

Images are decoded one at a time and reduced to at most 1000 pixels on their longest side before embedding. This is a proof-sheet export, not a full-resolution archive or a guaranteed print DPI. Small source photos are not enlarged during thumbnail preparation. The PDF viewer may scale a thumbnail to fill its cell; inspect the downloaded PDF before printing. Print at actual size to retain the selected paper geometry.

File count, combined input bytes, decoded image pixels, page count and retained output are limited for the device. Images are processed sequentially, but embedded thumbnails and the final PDF still require memory. Choose fewer or smaller photos if a job is rejected. Transparent image areas remain transparent in the PDF and normally appear over the viewer’s white page.