First Contact

Contact Sheets While You Wait

Quick Contact Sheets

First Contact is the fastest & easiest way to create compact contact sheets.

It's the go-to choice for professional photographers and digital techs every day. No more printing to PDFs or bloated subscription software.

Adjust Everything

Customize contact sheets to your clients' spec. Set the page size, rows & columns, labels, and quality. Once everything is configured just right, save your layout as a template for future use or share it with your crew so everyone's on the same page.

Choose from over 20 tokens to add information to the header and footer of the contact sheet. Add text to the leading, centered, and trailing sections to add dates, page counts, or anything else needed.

Color Space

Compression Quality

Computer Name

Current Date

Current Day of Month

Current Day of Week

Current Month

Current Year

Image Count

PDF Author

PDF Subject

PDF Title

Page Count

Page Number

Resample Images

Username

The format of many tokens can be customized. For example, you can use a date token to display the current date in a specific format or choose the number of digits to display in counter tokens.

Quality Control

A comprehensive set of image quality settings can help deliver the highest quality PDF or one that's fit for the stringiest email client. Easily take hundreds of megabytes of photos and reduce them to a few megabytes.

First Contact dynamically calculates the final PDF size so you know what you're getting before you export.

I am really loving this app - such a simple thing that makes a mundane task easy.

Brian von Glahn

Just put First Contact to the test yesterday - so fast compared to Bridge.

Justin Conly

First Contact and Guidelines are the BEST apps and have made my life so much easier.

Jason Tracy

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