School Portrait Photography

Pepe · #1 05-11-2001, 10:28 PM

I have seen some school portrait photographs from UK Photographers that include a class photo comprising of students' portraits. Do you know where I can get a template for such?

Thanks.

Ron · #2 05-12-2001, 09:45 AM

In the olden days - when I actually worked on these composites, we used a larger poster board, hand lettered the name of the school and class in the center, then pasted a wallet size photo of each student (which was die cut into an oval shape first) on the board. The board was then photographed with a 4x5 camera and 8x10 prints were made of the copy.

Today this would be so much easier to accomplish. Almost any program out there would be great for laying a composite out.
Canon's zoombrowser print util, Arcsofts printer pro, MS publisher, even photoshops auto proof sheet option to name only a few.

NorbertBissinger · #3 05-21-2001, 02:25 PM

http://www.photowave.com/ecommerce/ecommcdproducts.asp

Norbert

Event Masters · #4 06-01-2001, 09:48 PM

I attented a recent seminar and someone there told me about this site I have found it really informative and have only just registered. Anyway I have been in the digital imaging business now for the past 4 yrs and can help you out with your problem. I can print you any number of prints you wish or send you a digital file you can use to print your composites from. How many images do you require in your composite? I can handle from 2 to 75 per sheet. If you wish I can email you a sample file. Send me your email. as i mentioned I'm new to this . I am sure there is an email in this reply. What kind of system are you using? What kind of printer?

David Clark · #5 06-21-2001, 02:16 PM

The samples you saw were probalbly produced by me :-)
We don't use templates in Photoshop - it would take too long to produce them. We use a software package from a company called Halse - it's about $50,000 - but enables these composits to be produced very quickly. If you are in the lab business - superb! If you are trying to do the same in small quantities there are other programs from companies in Austraila - but still thousands of dollars. If you want more info - please drop me an email...

Ron · #6 06-22-2001, 09:08 AM

you could probably use the automated "proof sheet" feature in photoshop to load and align the images, then move some from the center and put text in it's place. I'm not sure if you can set a large image size when using the proof sheet feature.

Really you could lay one out in MS publisher pretty quickly. I'm sure a 50k program isn't necessary.