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Trade Tricks: Picture Package

  
     
 

Print Several Photos To A Page With This Helpful Feature Of Photoshop And Photoshop Elements

By Rob Sheppard

  
     
  One challenge that we all face in making prints is getting more than one photo on a page. It’s certainly more efficient and more cost-effective to get two 5x7s on a page, for example, rather than just one; the latter wastes both paper and time. There are a number of excellent printing programs on the market that allow you to put multiple photos on a page, and they offer a great deal of flexibility.  
     
   
     
  Picture Package is a handy, but not so obvious, part of Photoshop and Photoshop Elements that gives you a quick and easy way of printing, literally, picture packages of various-sized photos on single pages. While the range of printing options isn’t quite that of stand-alone printing programs, Photoshop and Photoshop Elements have the advantage of convenience. And frankly, you have a lot of choices, from multiples of wallet-sized images to several different sizes on a single page. Here’s how to do it:

1. Go to File > Automate > Picture Package for Photoshop, and File > Print Layouts > Picture Package in Photoshop Elements. Leave the photo to start.

2. Choose the layout desired; there are several.

3. Set the size and resolution. Choose a size for the paper used. A printing resolution of 200 to 300 ppi is best.

4. Select your first photos. The photo with which to start may be your opened photo in the program. Otherwise, you can select a new one at the top.

5. Double-click on different photos to pick new images for each position.

6. Choose Flatten if you want to print and save as is. If you don’t flatten, each image will have its own layer that can be adjusted separately from the rest.

7. You can add labels to your photos in the label section, if desired.

8. Click OK and stand back as the program does its automated magic. You’ll get an image that can be printed and saved as desired. 		 
     
 
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If your software package doesn’t have a Picture Package feature, you still can maximize your use of photo-quality paper by creating a composite layout manually. Simply arrange your manually sized images on the canvas and print. Although more labor-intensive, it works.
 
     
     
     










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