Using the Organiser to make a Picture Package

I sent you a PM with several questions. As a studio photographer I used Picture Packages a lot. I'm not sure if my thought on Picture Packages is the same as what you're looking to do.

Thank you Lucian, Sepiana for trying to help me. I'm afraid I'm still thrashing around trying to sort myself out, with little success, though.

I want to try something else now but it will be new territory again and I would welcome some reassurances before I start.

Yesterday I stumbled across the fact that on a little used (by me) PC computer I have working copies of PSE 9 and PSE 11; it was on this computer that I did all of my printing up to the end of 2015. Unfortunately the computer cannot speak so I shall have to spend some time trying to find out whether it is a clean, machine, empty of elements gold nuggets, I suspect it is. However, I am hoping that PSE 11 might be a big help, my initial findings are promising.

What I want to know now is whether I could load up PSE 11 on my laptop behind PSE 14 or is it something that must be avoided at all costs. My intentions are to prepare the files in PSE 14, move finished copies for printing in PSE 11 to the PC and ensure they would not come back to the laptop that created them before deletion.

I remain convinced that in 2015 I was using PSE 11 to create A4 packages of images of all shapes and sizes, which were freely moveable around the page, and it seems worthwhile spending a day or two trying to avoid the straight-jacket Adobe would now have me use and slow me down. 

callsign,

Do you have a sample of your portrait package that you could post?

I've attached a sample of my portrait package. When I was in the studio many of our customers wanted extra prints. We could give them soft copies on CD. These were produced on 8.5x11 which matched most of the papers available for home printing. We stopped using the automated package printer because there we sometimes variations in the print. Most were barely noticeable but still there. The automated process would sometimes crop off a little bit on the top or sides.

We then created/cropped our own sizes (i.e. 8x10 to 4x5, 5x7 to wallet size) and then plugged them into a template (we premade) or we just did a copy, paste and moved things to fit on the page. This took a little longer to produce but ensuring the quality for our customer was worth the effort. We made templates for packages that were most often requested.

Our second template we made for our police photography. We used this template for accident coverage, insurance claims, crime scenes, etc. These were made on 8.5x11 because that was the size of regular typing/printer paper. We left a wide border to one side so these could have 2 holes punched in them for ease of filing.

First of all an apology to those who have attempted to help me recently and other viewers I will have misled by my lack of care, clarity and precision when starting this thread; I am sorry to have wasted your time and will try and do better in future.

It is obvious now that, at the start, I should have made it clear that the only reason I used the Photo Package facility in the past was because it was the only way I had found where I could place selected image files, of various dimensions and sizes but the same resolution, on A4 templates, created specially and provided with guides to assist photo placement, and then saved until I was ready to print the results on to A4 photo paper.

These prints were then cut to size and placed into old fashioned photo albums, which I, for one, would rather browse through and think about later. Viewing the images on a screen of any sort has little appeal, it has its uses but never the same intimacy. Fully edited TIFF and JPEG files, and unedited TIFFs of all (or nearly) all scanned images are also available.

It is also my view that what I am creating stands a better chance of a longer life than images stored on discs, of whatever kind, or in clouds etc. If in my old age I was surrounded by family members gifted in the arts and mysteries of computers to whom I could hand on the baton then I would be seeking to delegate much of the work; but I am not, so I do what I can and enjoy the challenge. 

To bring things up to date, I have reached the tentative conclusion that what I am looking for in PSE 14 (I don't know about PSE 15) so that I can replicate what I was doing prior to 2016 does not exist and I shall just have to put up with it and find an alternative way of creating prints.

Something else I cannot find is a set of specimen page layouts additional to the pretty useless specimens presented by the Print Window. I believe they used to exist. Is anyone able to help me here, please?