Contact sheet improvements: formatting, counter and template-storage

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Exoner
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Contact sheet improvements: formatting, counter and template-storage

Post by Exoner »

Hi,

I have three suggestions for the contact-sheet-feature:

Suggestion 1:

Currently all file-data appears below the image and the image-data-combination is centered in the entire row by default. This is beautiful for standard-contact-sheets.

I would be very pleased to have a contact-sheet format like a list, where the image is on the left and the file-data is on the right of it, just one image per row. Currently I did not manage to define a list like that.

Suggestion 2:

It would be nice to add a counter-placeholder to the file-data of each image on the contact sheet like

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'{###}'
or (much better) similar to the placeholders for page-number and total pages. Adding a counter to the file-data eases the communication with contact-sheet-recipients. With numbers there is no need to talk about pages and file-data to identify the image of interest. The counter should count the images on the entire contact-sheet ( 1 .. n),

Suggestion 3:

I have the need for different contact-sheets-formats. Currently I have to edit the settings each time I have to change the output-format. How about defining simple contact-sheet-templates with data-placeholders that can be loaded when needed?

Thank you for your time and this wonderful software.

Peace.