Printing contact sheets with the image name??

I am running a fundraiser for my school and I have
1000's of pictures of the children. They are each in
individual folders and I want to print out contact
sheets for each family with just their child's
picturesa and I want to have the image name print
with each picture.

Example- 4 prints joey's contact sheet. I want each
print to have the image name with the print so the
parent can see the prints, decide which one they want
and then order individuall images.

PLease help and asap our event is friday.
Thanks
James

you can email me directly at work at

jamesbauckman@yahoo.com

Thanks so much!!!

To take this one step further, I would also like to include my star ratings with the image name when printing a contact sheet. I am working on a shoot where I have taken multiple images of the same pose, and I only want to work with the best shots. I am using an imac running tiger 10.4.3

Also, this line is in the header of the original post:
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Where do I go to find this information. thanx.
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Hi james,
I think you already posted this question, but I will post my answer again (in case I am losing it)

Annotating iPhoto contact sheets
This is a copy/paste from MacWorld's 911:

Annotating iPhoto contact sheets
By Christopher Breen
Reader Ashley Williamson (who really should consider licensing his or her name to Harlequin Romance, LLC.) is dismayed by the limitations of iPhoto’s contact sheet capabilities. Specifically:

I am a photographer and I use iPhoto for most of my importing/downloading of files and organizing them to burn to CD or DVD. I also use iPhoto to print thumbnail contact sheets for my clients that go with the CD of images. The problem is that iPhoto will not allow me to print the contact sheets with the images numbers…it will print only the thumbnails themselves. So basically the contact sheets are useless to the clients when printed from iPhoto. Is there a setting on iPhoto I’m missing?

Sort of. You’re printing contact sheets correctly, but, as you suggest, iPhoto doesn’t allow you to print titles or filenames on these images. Here’s a way around it.

In iPhoto select the image you’d like to appear on the contact sheet and choose Share > Export. In the resulting Export Photos window, click the Web Page tab. Within that tab enter the number of columns and rows of pictures you’d like to appear on a page and in the Thumbnail portion of the window, enable the Show Title option. Click Export to save the pictures to a web page.

When you open that web page in your browser you’ll discover that it carries not only the images you selected, but also each image’s title. Now simply print each page and you’ve got the contact sheet you’re after.

Bill Kline offers:

iPhoto will work nicely if she incorporates SnapzPro X into her workflow, She can go to iPhoto’s View menu, select “Titles”, and iPhoto will place the title under each thumbnail. She can set the size of the thumbnails big enough to display all the title’s characters, then invoke SnapzPro selection, select just her browser window with a full set of thumbnails, and hit Return, and it will snap a picture of that selection, and save it wherever she wants it however she wants it.

Haven Sweet suggests:

An easier process (since it does not involve exporting pictures) is to create an iPhoto book, using the yearbook template. Important: click on settings (the blue gear icon) and be sure that “Automatically enter photo information” is checked.

Leave the cover and title page blank, then either add each picture in the desired order, or use autoflow to enter all in their sorted order. Each picture appears with its camera-generated title below, and you can even add more text in a second text box. You can set almost any number of pictures per page (2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 18, 20, and 32 pictures per page), so you can do some pages with many small images, and the best pictures in a larger size.

Neil Isaacson writes:

Regarding Ashley Williamson’s iPhoto dilemma, why not suggest she also place that web folder onto her client’s CD. Then they can also browse the images off the CD. Or a PDF could be made from the web pages and placed at the root level of the CD.

And Mac 911 forum visitor “uchuugaka” opines:

But even better, print to PDF before printing the web page format. It will be more reusable and printers will give better results

Lori

Hi Gary,
I see no way to add star ratings, even with the work around I posted above.
The only way I can think of is to add a work around to the work around. Both the export to web, and using BetterHTML (an iPhoto plugin to also export to web giving you more options) you can only choose to add title and comments.
I suggest to add *, **, *, **, to each images comment depending on what your star rating is. You can then export the title and the comment (which is actually your rating) to a web page.
As to your last question, only the original poster who asked the question can give points to another poster who answered and solved their question, or was helpful.
If you would like to give points to anyone for solving your problem, always start a new post as a question. this way, you will get help more geared towards your problem and is less confusing to helpers trying to help many people in one thread whose problems might be slightly different.

Lori

To get the ratings on the contact sheet you can create an album for each student with the photos you want in each album. Set the background to white. Add the rating and in the View options select Ratings. You'll now have the title and rating under each photos. Adjust the size to fill the screen adequately and then take a screen shot of just the photo area. You can not print that screen shot (see Example). It won't be as high quality since it's only at 72 dpi but will work. You can use Grab or SnapZ to make the screen shot. Grab is located in your Applications/Utilties folder.

Thanx Lori.

Thanx Toad. In your reply you said " You can not print that screen shot..." Is this what you meant?