Contact sheets let you easily preview and cataloug groups of images by displaying a series of thumbnails on a single page. You can automatically create and place thumbnails on a page using the Contact Sheet II command.
This feature is very popular with photographers and has been widely used since CS2 Photoshop. Regrettably, it’s been taken away in CS4 Photoshop and it’s a shock for the Photoshop/Bridge users when they upgraded their software to CS4.
Instead of using Contactsheet plugin, you can create a PDF contact sheet for presentation with “Adobe Output Module” in CS4.
But for those who still want to use the legacy Contactsheet plugin with CS4 Photoshop and Bridge, then here is the instruction.
1. Download the 5.8MB file “Adobe Photoshop CS4 Optional plug-ins and ReadMe” English, Spanish and French, from this link.
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/thankyou.jsp?ftpID=4048&fileID=3767
2. Quit both Photoshop and Bridge CS4 if they’re opened.
3. For Photoshop CS4,
drop this file “ContactSheetII.plugin” from the above download (Adobe Photoshop CS4 Content/ English/Goodies/Optional plug-ins/Automate/ContactSheetII.plugin)
into “Automate” folder (//Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS4/Plug-ins/Automate)
4. For Bridge CS4,
Drop this file “photoshop_contact_sheet_II.jsx“ (//Adobe Photoshop CS4 Content/English/Goodies/ Optional plug-ins/Bridge Startup Scripts/photoshop_contact_sheet_II.jsx)
into “Adobe Photoshop” folder ( //Library/Application support/Adobe/Startup Scripts CS4/Adobe Photoshop)
5. Launch Photoshop CS4 , File/Automate/contact sheet II
6. Launch Bridge CS4, Tools/Photoshop/Contact sheet II
The above instruction was tested with Mac OS 10.5.6 Leopard & Windows 7.
Posted by Manuel on July 23, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Is there a link to the Mac version of Contact Sheet? Can’t believe they would remove this in the first place! I use it all the time. And who the hell uses bridge anyway?!
Posted by Manuel on July 23, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Never mind I found it: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/thankyou.jsp?ftpID=4096&fileID=3816
Posted by adihamo on July 31, 2009 at 7:33 pm
great post your save my life but i could not locate the below folder into “Adobe Photoshop” folder ( //Library/Application support/Adobe/Startup Scripts CS4/Adobe Photoshop)
Posted by jo on October 22, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Manuel, thank you so much! but I’m having the same problem as adihamo. Library/ Application Support/ Adobe/ …….ends there!!!!! Where is startup scripts cs4? HELP!
Posted by Rightclick on November 9, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Here is the path where the above file should go for Bridge
//Program Files/Common Files/Adobe/Startup Scripts CS4/Adobe Photoshop/
Posted by Melanie on December 3, 2009 at 3:54 am
I’m having trouble finding “//Program Files/Common Files/Adobe/Startup Scripts CS4/Adobe Photoshop/”