XnView Software

Hello all, I am an art professor with rudimentary computer skills preparing to teach a photography class this fall. We will be using XnView MP to make contact sheets with student photographs. As you can see from the attached image, I've figure out how to make a contact sheet. The only remaining question is how I can make visible on the page the filename, aperture, iso, and shutter speed for each image. Any suggestions appreciated, thank you!
Tim H

tim10025 wrote: Thu Sep 17, 2020 8:35 pm I am an art professor with rudimentary computer skills preparing to teach a photography class this fall. We will be using XnView MP to make contact sheets with student photographs. As you can see from the attached image, I've figure out how to make a contact sheet.

How I can make visible on the page the filename, aperture, iso, and shutter speed for each image. Any suggestions appreciated, thank you!

Where would you want to place the parameters you listed in relation to the images?

The contact sheet function doesn't provide any way I can see to do that directly.

However, the batch convert function Tools >Batch convert... has an action Action > Image > Text for adding text, including most or all of the parameters you listed: click on the horizontal arrow to the right of the text entry box to drill down to the parameters available.

As far as I know text can only be written on the image canvas, however if preferred new blank canvas could be added below, or beside, each image first using the Canvas resize action.

If one of those options meets your need, the text could be written on the images as a batch operation before creating the contact sheet.

Or can someone see a better way I've overlooked?

The required parameters could also, of course, be added as text to a contact sheet after it has been created, but that could be very tedious, it might be hard to align text related to different images accurately, and the present XnView MP text tool provided in the Image > Draw... menu is particularly unsuited to the task relative to the text tool in XnView Classic.

But if many of the parameters to be displayed are common to all images, the overall task using either method might be somewhat simplified, with some alternative display possibilities.