I took a few hundred photos last weekend for some friends with their new addition to their family and wanted to send them via email a contact sheet of all the photos so they could take a look before I spent some time editing them.
Lightroom 3 offers a really effective solution for this although it wasn't obvious at first that I could create a soft copy of a contact sheet instead of printing it out that was small enough to email.
The easy way to do it is
1) Select the photos you want to include on your contact sheet
2) Select Print from the menu
3) In the template browser (left hand side), select the contact sheet you want. My preference in this case was the 4 x 5 contact sheet: a good compromise between size of each picture and number of shots per page
4) On the right hand side, scroll all the to the bottom to the Print Job section
5) Where it says "Print to: Printer", click and select "JPEG File"
6) Click Print!
It will create one file per page.
An alternative would be to follow the above steps but write to a PDF file and send it. The only problem I've found with this is the size of the PDF file which is often too large to email.
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