Inventory Photos

[rpcrowe]

I am doing a photo inventory of my daughter's house and the contents thereof.

The print out will have the images at approximately 2x3 inches or 4x7 centimeters (give or take), which is the size her lawyer has requested for the printout.

I would like not to need to resize every image since I expect that there will be more than several hundred images.

I made a test with a Sony crop sensor camera using JPEG at the lowest quality and smallest size.

The result comes out at roughly 8.7 inches x 5.7 inches at 350 PPI.

Is there a way, using Adobe Bridge and/or Photoshop to get all of these images down to the required (2x3 inches) without having to resize each image individually. Perhaps batch processing if possible or any other way.

[Manfred M]

Richard - Photoshop has a contact sheet function under <File> <Automate> <Contact Sheet II>. You will probably have to play around with it a little, but it lets you select the number of rows and columns, so you should be able to output prints that that you need.

[DanK]

I think Lightroom does also, but I’m not at a computer where I can check.


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[Ken MT]

With lightroom, go to print, single image/contact sheet. Go down to page grid, set rows and columns to required size, then drag required photos onto the grid.

[pnodrog]

In Adobe Bridge you can define an export preset including file type, size, quality etc. similar to Lightroom.

[odds]

...Perhaps batch processing if possible

Certainly possible; I would probably use ImageMagick https://imagemagick.org/index.php from the command-line

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Odd S.

[rpcrowe]

You have all been very helpful.

I have decided to resize all the photos to the same size vertically.

I plan on using my crop format A6600 camera with the Tamron 11-20mm lens. The zoom lens will allow me to crop in camera so that the image will show only the subject and I will not need any additional cropping. I will shoot the images in either vertical or horizontal format - depending on the subject. Then I will select all the horizontal images and crop these to 2 inches wide which will give me 1.33 inches in height. I will select the vertical images and will crop these to 1.33 inches in height.

If I did not shoot in both vertical and horizontal formats and if I sized all of the images the same, I would not be able to show only the subject in each image.

This way when I lay out the photos on the spread sheet, all of the entries will be the same size vertically, rather than having the spread sheet boxes different sizes for the different items. I think it will be neater that way...

The entire project is becoming PITA because I am getting the requirements for the video portion of this inventory second/third hand. I do not know (and neither my wife nor my daughter) can tell me what the video is for. Therefore, it is a bit difficult to figure out how to do the video when no one seems to know what the purpose of the video is to be.