Printing Multiple Photos
Elements also lets you print from the Organizer, which gives you many more output options than the Editor, including the ability to print several photos on one page. You can create contact sheets of thumbnails and picture packages (like you'd order from a professional photographer), and easily add all kinds of fancy borders to your photos in the Organizer. (In Elements 8, you can begin creating a contact sheet or a picture package from the Editor, but Elements bounces you over to the Organizer for your actual printing.)
Contact Sheets
Contact sheets show thumbnail views of multiple images on a single page. They're great for creating a visual reference guide to the photos you've archived on a CD, for instance. Or you may want to print a contact sheet of all the photos on a memory card as soon as you download the photos to your computer, even before you edit them (see Figure 16-7).
Figure 16-7. An Elements contact sheet. In the "Select a Layout" section (circled), the Columns menu lets you decide how many columns of images appear on your contact sheet.
To print a contact sheet, in the Print window, go to the "Select Type of Print" menu and choose Contact Sheet. The window changes to show a "Select a Layout" section, and you can use the following settings to customize your contact sheet:
Columns. Here's where you decide how many vertical rows of photos to have on ...
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