Working with Images

Create Image Contact Sheets on iPhone & iPad

This guide explains how to create contact sheets as PDF files in FileBrowser so you can review many image thumbnails together and quickly browse photo collections on your iPhone or iPad.

  1. Select multiple images in a folder and then tap the menu icon (bottom left). Select "Create PDF File".
  2. Select the number of image you want per page.
  3. Select your paper orientation, portrait or landscape.
  4. Choose the quality by selecting DPI
  5. Optionally choose an Exif property to add to your file labels
  6. You can also add the filenames underneath each image for easy reference.
  7. Reorder - From here you can drag the photos into your prefered order.
  8. Tap "Create PDF File" and the new PDF will be saved into the current folder. If you want to save the PDF to another location uncheck "Save to this Folder" and the file will be copied to your clipboard.
FileBrowser create PDF dialog showing options to set images per page, page orientation, DPI and filename labels for a photo contact sheet

The finished PDF file should look something like this.

You can change the number of images per page, set the orientation of your PDF, change the DPI, reorder the images, add file names to the images and add meta data from the create PDF dialog.

Create Image Contact Sheets is only available in FileBrowserGO and FileBrowser Professional.

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Example PDF contact sheet generated in FileBrowser displaying multiple image thumbnails arranged in a grid with filenames
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