Launch the Photoshop Elements Organizer workspace.

Select the photos you want on the contact sheet.

Ctrl+click the desired photos. You can select as many photos as you want. Photoshop Elements prints more than one contact sheet if necessary.

Click the Create button and choose Photo Prints.

The panel refreshes to show the Photo Prints options.

Click the Print with Local Printer button.

The Prints dialog box appears.

Select an option from the Select Printer drop-down menu.

The drop-down menu lists all printers connected to your computer and or the local network.

Accept the default Printer Settings options or click the Change Settings button.

The default settings work great in most instances. If you click the Change Settings button, you see a dialog box that contains a list of options for the selected printer. Accept the default options, or modify them to suit your preference. After making the desired changes, click OK to exit the dialog box.

Choose an option from the Select Paper Size drop-down menu.

Select the size that matches the media in your printer.

Choose the Contact Sheet option from the Select Type of Print dropdown menu.

The dialog box refreshes to show the default layout using the selected photos. (See Figure 12-8.)

Accept the default for the Crop to Fit check box, which is selected.

Figure 12.8. Creating a contact sheet.

This option crops the images to fill in a square. If you deselect this option, the images fill the square space using the default aspect ratio of the images, which leaves a white area around the smaller dimension. I almost always deselect this option in order to get a look at the entire image.

In the Select a Layout section, specify the following options:

• Columns: Click the spinner arrows to increase or decrease the number of columns in the contact sheet. After you make a change, the thumbnails in the dialog box update in real time to reflect your change.

• Show Print Options: Select this check box to reveal the following options: Date, which prints the current date under each image; Caption, which prints the image caption under each image; Filename, which prints the filename under each image, and Page Numbers, which prints the page number when you create a contact sheet with enough images to require multiple pages.

• Print X Copies of Each Image: Click the spinner arrows to print multiple copies of each contact sheet.

Click the Page Setup button.

This opens a dialog box with setup options for the selected printer. When you're done, close the dialog box by clicking OK.

Click the Print button.

Photoshop Elements sends the information to your printer, which prints the contact sheets.