Free local contact-sheet planner

Measure the strips.
Place the sheet.

Check a simple negative-strip grid on photographic paper before you commit a darkroom contact print.

1 · Measure the paper

2 · Measure one strip

A paper layout, not a darkroom recipe

One sheet.
A measured grid.

The planner removes the same edge margin from all four sides, then fits measured strips left to right. It adds the chosen gap only between strips, so a single strip does not require a gap on both outside edges.

Contact printing places a negative in physical contact with photographic paper. A darkroom guide from Yateley Darkroom gives film format and paper size as practical layout choices; use your own strips and paper as the deciding measurements.

This planner does not choose paper, determine film format, crop or rotate a strip, set exposure or contrast, recommend chemicals, assess safelight conditions, process film, or guarantee a print. See the Yateley Darkroom contact-sheet guide ↗