bcares1 wrote:

 

Is there a third party plug-in to replace Picture Package in CS6? Why would Adobe do away with a very popular and necessary part of PS?

You may find this recently concluded thread interesting intriguing:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4554823

Like you I missed the picture package, but ended up with a product called Qimage and have not looked back. Enables you not only build picture packages, but a great print productivity tool and money saver. Apart from picture packages, it has many templates like printing two up 5x7's on one page, but with the custom feature it is a pice of cake to print panoramas side by side - good paper savings - also has an auto layout feature.  Not too badly priced and has the ability to use outpot profiles.

Mike

Thanks for mentioning it, Mike.  Qimage appears to be moderately priced, but…  it's Windows only.

Yes that is a kicker. A while back I was a Mac person, but ran Qimage on an el-cheapo laptop just for printing from Qimage had the images on a share drive and all worked great - I bought an HP netbook from Fry's for about $200 and run a few of my legacy products - like the famous WS-FTP - still my fav FTP client.

Mike

MikeKPhoto wrote:

 

…ran Qimage on an el-cheapo laptop just for printing from Qimage…

As long as it's not a plug-in that would require a second Photoshop license (for Macintosh), that's a great idea.  It would even run on my cheap Toshiba which has Windows Vista. 

If your running on Windows you can install the 64bit and 32 bit CS5 ContactsheetII plug-in into CS6. CS6 ContactsheetII is installed into Adobe's Required folder and will co-exist with CS5 plug-in installed into the Plug-in folder setup for third party plug-ins. In the Photoshop menu File>Automate> you will see two ContactsheeII itemes and one Picture Package items.  Picture Package use to be in ContactSheeII. ContactSheetII was changes in CS6 for thers were errors in its dialog with the preview thumbnail and the size images would be and for some reason Adobe removed Picture Package from ContactSheetII in CS6. If you install the CS5 Plug-ins in CS6 do not forget to copy the Layout Folder into Presets Picture Packages needs that folder contents.

Mac user are out of luck here because CS5 ContactSheetII plug-in is only available in a 32Bit version and there is no Mac CS6 32bit Photoshop.

Mac and PC users can use my Photoshop Photo Collage Toolkit in CS6 as a poorer replacement for Picture Package.  There are two scripts in that package useful for Pictire Packages.

1.) PasteImageRoll for creating single image size picture packages in a single document for pring on roll paper

2.) BatchPicturePackage will create Picture Package Collages. You need to create templates for the Picture Package layouts Images will be rotated for proper orintation.

Look at the following thread http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1014453?start=0&tstart=0

Picture Package Collage template http://www.mouseprints.net/old/dpr/PicturePackage3Prints.psd

Message was edited by: JJMack

These are the steps I took to enable the CS 5 Picture Package in CS 6 (64 bit):

Downloaded PSCS5OptionalPlugins_Win_en_US.zip  for from http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/thankyou.jsp?ftpID=4688&fileID= 4376

Unzipped file to give C:\Downloads\Adobe CS\Plugin module\PSCS5OptionalPlugins_Win_en_US.zip\PSCS5OptionalPlugins_Win_en _US\Optional Plug-Ins\Win64:

Copied ContactSheetII to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Required\Plug-Ins\Automate:

Copied C:\Downloads\Adobe CS\Plugin module\PSCS5OptionalPlugins_Win_en_US.zip\PSCS5OptionalPlugins_Win_en _US\Presets\Layouts to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Presets:

Restarted Photoshop CS 6.  Photo Package will be listed under the Automate options under the first Contact II.