Make a contact sheet from RAW, HEIC or JPEG photos
A contact sheet puts a set of photos side by side on a page, small, with a caption under each, so you can compare frames, pick the ones to keep or send a proof. Choose your photos, RAW files included, and this page lays them out on A4 or US Letter pages and saves the sheet as a PDF.
Your photos and RAW files stay on your device: nothing is uploaded.
Make a contact sheet
Camera settings are the camera and lens, then the focal length, shutter, aperture and ISO, as the files record them.
A free sheet takes up to 10 photos, so the first 10 of the you chose, by file name, are on it. Make another sheet for the next 10, or get the Pro Pass (€24, paid once, for 12 months) to lay them all out at once.
The PDF is made in this page. Its frames are JPEG copies made on your device; it carries no EXIF or GPS data from your files, only the caption details you choose.
HEIC photos are decoded with libheif and libde265 in browsers that cannot open them, and RAW files without a large enough preview with LibRaw; both are served unmodified from this site (sources and licences).
A free sheet takes up to 10 photos, with a small WinPhoto line at the foot of each page. The Pro Pass, €24 paid once for 12 months, makes sheets without it, with any number of photos and frames at full size, and lifts the 10-file limit on the HEIC and image converters. Get the Pro Pass
How to use it
- Choose the layout: 2 to 8 columns, A4 or US Letter, portrait or landscape, the margin, and a white or black page.
- Choose what each caption shows: the file name, the capture date, the camera settings. Add a title if you want one.
- Choose your photos (RAW, HEIC, JPEG, PNG or WebP), or drop them on the box. The preview shows page 1.
- Make the PDF and save it. The frames follow the order of the file names.
Questions
- What is a contact sheet?
- A page of small prints of a set of photos, side by side, with a caption under each. Photographers printed them from negatives to choose frames; today they are used to review a shoot, pick frames with a client or send a proof.
- Can it read RAW files?
- Yes: CR2, CR3, NEF, ARW, DNG, ORF, RAF, RW2 and PEF. For a RAW file it uses the largest preview your camera stored in it, which shows the camera's own processing, not your later edits. A RAW file with no preview of at least 1,024 pixels is decoded in your browser instead, which takes longer.
- Is my photo uploaded?
- No. The photos are read and laid out on your device, and the PDF is made in this page. The first RAW or HEIC file you choose may load its decoder from this site. The page also tells our server that a sheet was previewed, that a PDF was made, or that more files were chosen than a free sheet takes, and nothing else: no photo, file name, caption or number of files.
- What is in the PDF?
- Each frame is a JPEG copy of the photo made on your device, 1,200 pixels on its long edge on a free sheet, with its caption in Helvetica. A free sheet also has a small line at the foot of each page: Made with WinPhoto · winphoto.io. The PDF carries no EXIF or GPS data from your files; only the caption details you choose are printed.
- What does the Pro Pass add?
- For 12 months, paid once: sheets without the footer, with any number of photos and with frames at full size, and the HEIC and image converters in batches of any size. Without it, a sheet or a batch takes up to 10 files. Everything still runs in your browser.