Urgent Help Needed.......adding Multiple Pics To Document?

[High Altitude]

Hello Guys

I need some advice and after drawing a blank at various retail outlets i'm hoping one of my fellow weather watchers can help.

I produce property reports for clients and use word 2007. These reports have many pictures attached (anywhere from 10-40 pics) and at the moment it is taken me longer to attach these pics to the document than it does to get the report typed up!

I'm currently copying and pasting each pic separately from microsoft office picture manager to my report then clicking on the corners of the individual pics to shrink them into the template so they fit the required size.

Picture manager is fine for multiple resizing (of file), renaming, brightening etc, but doesn't have an option to for example highlight multiple pictures and copy/paste them direct onto the reports.

Picture Manager does allow for custom resizing however the quality of the printed pictures (especially the smaller ones) is poor/blurry unless the one of the pre set resizing options are used.

I've tried using 'irfanview' software which provides for this facility in theory accept that the quality of the minimised pictures on the printed report again is very poor.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Is there any software that would make ny life easier? I appreciate that this might sound a bit confusing so if necessary i can email a sample for your information.

Many Thanks in advance.

Spencer

Edited December 2, 2010 by High Altitude

[hubba_dubba]

I use photoshop and use the create contact sheet feature to create a pdf document of multiple images. You'll find it under the file>automate> contact sheet II menu.

If you shoot in raw and use lightroom the same feature is in there too.

[High Altitude]

I use photoshop and use the create contact sheet feature to create a pdf document of multiple images. You'll find it under the file>automate> contact sheet II menu.

If you shoot in raw and use lightroom the same feature is in there too.

Hello Matt

Thanks for the reply.

The reports concentrate on individual rooms within a property so the pictures for each room will need to be at the end of that section and as oppossed to generating a separte contact sheet. Some rooms may only have 1 or 2 pics and would look silly on a separate page on there own.

Does photoshop provide for that if this makes sense?

Also i am a complete notice when it comes photography so excuse my ignorance but could you explain what 'Shoot in raw' and 'use lightroom' means?

Many Thanks