Dave Cross demonstrates how to create a contact sheet for your Illustrator artwork using InDesign.
Author: Dave Cross
For close to 25 years, Dave Cross has been helping photographers and creative professionals get the most out of their software. Starting with Adobe Illustrator classes in 1987, Dave has taught Photoshop,Illustrator and InDesign to thousands of users around the world. He has a Bachelor of Education, is an Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop CS5 and is a Certified Technical Trainer. Dave has taught at Photoshop World (20 times), written numerous articles and several books, co-hosts Photoshop User TV and has appeared in many DVDs and online courses for Kelby Training. Dave is the Lead Instructor for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, and runs his own studio/workshop space in Tampa, FL. Over the last 12 years, Dave has taught Photoshop in every state in the United States, throughout Canada and in Europe, consistently earning rave reviews. Dave is well-known for his engaging style, his humor and his ability to make complex topics easy to understand. In 2009 Dave was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame.
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Thanks Corey!
That was a great tutorial from Dave Cross.
Dave Cross is my hero.
All very new to me so I followed along with Dave but each time I tried to make the contact sheet my template design was applied to the first sheet only – what am I doing wrong ??
For the contact sheet to work with multiple pages you must place any design, logo etc on the Master Page. If you create a facing page document, there will be 2 master pages and you must put your “stuff” on both the left and right hand master page (that’s why I usually don’t use facing pages)
HTH
Dave
very cool
Great information – thank you! Dave’s seminars are wonderful – see him LIVE whenever he come’s near your town!
Very good. You know what you’re doing, Dave.
Hey Dave – I came across this tutorial today, and feel very priviledged to see one of my designs (self portrait) in your training video – the image on my istock portfolio – fraserd
THANKS!!!!!!!
Very Very Very Very Thanks………….. Dear dave
Dave, I have Adobe Photoshop cs3 extended and Indesign cs3 installed on my machine. However in Bridge I don’t have an option listed to make an Idesign contact sheet. It’s like Bridge doesn’t know Indesign exist.
Hope you can help me with this.
Thanks!!!
I can’t beleve that is so eazy. Thanks
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scott i am the same problem? did you find an anwser?
Dave That was awesome, but do you know of a way to take an InDesign document with placed images already placed and have captions added? We used to use a plugin called Label it to accomplish this, but I was hoping with CS4, something similar is out there.
Thanks again for the video!
dave!
I love your tutorials….very easy to understand…and a great voice! Thanks
Nice tutorial. Very clearly thought out and presented.
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well I did not get far…when I go to Bridge, Tools, InDesign…. InDesign is not there as an opiton…. what do I do know.
I tried to also do the drag and drop of images into Indesign – use the arrow keys to create placeholders (?) but it would only respond to the side arrow key now he down arrow key. I have wasted half my day on this today!