Monday, April 30, 2012

Making Contact Sheets with "montage"


Being very cheap, er,..., I mean frugal, and wanting to get a bunch of small pictures printed on real photo paper that I could slice into tiny 1 inch by 1.5 inch smaller-than-wallet photos, I used the open source, free "montage" program in the ImageMagick suite of tools on windows XP to create a contact sheet with this command:
montage pencil.jpg pencil.jpg pencil.jpg pencil.jpg pencil.jpg ^
pencil.jpg pencil.jpg pencil.jpg pencil.jpg pencil.jpg pencil.jpg ^
pencil.jpg  pencil.jpg pencil.jpg pencil.jpg pencil.jpg ^
-tile 4x4 -geometry +0+0  -border 0 -rotate -90 pencils.jpg
(Surely there's a way to not repeat "pencil.jpg", but I was in a hurry.) The source photo, in this case "pencil.jpg", needs to be 1 inch by 1.5 inches which will reproduce 16 times on a standard 4x6 inch photo. This is great if children want to give others a small picture of themselves.

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