

Because we are setting the File Resolution to 100, we will get exactly the pixel dimensions needed.

Set the settings as I have here, just substituting my custom file dimensions for your monitor resolution divided by 100. Next scroll down to the Print Job panel on the right side at the bottom.Choose the Custom Print Package from the Layout Styles on the right side, top panel.First set the orientation of your paper to either portrait or landscape by going to Page Setup in the bottom left corner of the Print module.Set up your page in Lightroom’s Print module.
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Read my tutorial on how to use Lightroom collections here.ģ. Pull together a collection of potential images in Lightroom’s Library module.

It should be somewhere between 800×600 (very low by today’s standards) to 2048xSomething or even higher.Ģ. Though I am not a Mac user, from my experience you would go to the Apple, System Preferences> Display. If you are on an earlier Windows system, you can go to Start, and type Screen Resolution in the search box, and that should bring it up. There I find that mine is 1920x 1200 pixels. With all the different system versions out there, I can’t tell you exactly how to access this information, but on my Windows 7 machine, I right-click on the desktop, and select Screen Resolution. You could make your collage any size, and just let Windows or Mac OS X resize and stretch it to fit your monitor, but why not make it the exact size needed, so that it fills your monitor and there is no distortion?ġ. Here’s an example I put together quickly, leaving the background color white, and adding a grey stroke border to the images (the black frame is not part of the result): If you watched my video tutorial on the Custom Print Package in Lightroom, you know how to make a collage of photographs.
