One way to create a promo sheet in Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom™ is to use a Contact Sheet template such as 4x5 Contact Sheet or 5x8 Contact Sheet, and then include an Identity Plate. As a photographer who also has worked a long time as a magazine editor, I can’t really recommend those numbers. It puts too many photos on a page for a promo sheet. They are fine for a contact sheet as a reference, but they make the images too small for any editor or photo buyer to really see them adequately. In this tutorial, I’ll show you what I recommend.
To follow along with this article, you will need the following software:
Some knowledge of working with Photoshop Lightroom
Rob Sheppard is a professional photographer based in Los Angeles, and author of "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for Digital Photographers Only," "National Geographic Field Guide to Digital Photography," "The Magic of Digital Nature Photography," and other titles. He is also the editor-at-large for Outdoor Photographer magazine, and regularly conducts workshops around the country to help photographers master digital techniques. His website is at www.robsheppardphoto.com.
Excerpted from "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for Digital Photographers Only," by Rob Sheppard. Copyright© 2007 Wiley Publishing, Inc. Used with permission of Wiley Publishing, Inc. To purchase the full retail version of this book, visit www.wiley.com.