Expert: Kevin Stohlmeyer - 3/4/2008

Question
My Co. has decided to make a few of us gate keepers to all the images coming and going out. My question is, when I make the contact sheets it "sometimes" puts them in a,b,c, order or 1,2,3 and then we have to print out the contact sheets and go through each image through photoshop and judge the quality of said image, my big issue is that photoshop, when I am opening the images to write out their measurement on the contact sheet will open randomly, it will jump from image 1-2.tif to 1-54.tif 1-33.tif, and then back to 1-3.tif so it gets to be long to go through these files and having to flip through page after page of contact sheets trying to fill out the info, is there a way to make photoshop open files in a,b,c or 1, 2, 3, order so I don't lose my mind?

Answer
Sorry Lindsay,

What photoshop does is opens in numerical order 1-1, 1-11, 1-12, then goes to 1-2, 1-21, 1-22. Most applications do it in that manner. Its not random, although once you have a lot of documents open, it may seem that way.

Have you tried using bridge to view your preview documents and get the information from there?

You can view using metadata preview mode and see all your information on one screen. If you need to preview the image larger, revise your workspace to make the preview window larger.

I use that instead of contact sheets and hand written notes.


Thanks

Kevin