Proof Sheets of digital photos w/o Photoshop

[steve harris <dshlaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have been trying to do most of my black and white digital photo 
processing on Linux.  If anyone is interested in the workflow, software, 
etc. let me know, and I can e-mail you a write up.  One of the problems 
was creating proofsheets without using Photoshop.  GIMP does not have a 
proof sheet routine.  Imagemagick (which runs on linux and mac) does a 
good job of preparing proof sheets for digital files in folder.  Since 
ImageMagick can be installed on Linux, Mac, or Windows, I wanted to pass 
this along.

You need to have ImageMagick installed on the computer. 
(www.imagemagick.org) Copy flat tiff files to a folder. Then open a 
terminal window and cd (change directory command) to the file. The 
following code will produce proof sheets (multiple) 7.188"x10.3" at 240 
dpi. <montage -geometry 575x575 -density 240x240 -tile 3x4 -label '%f' 
*.tif proofs.jpg>. Imagemagick will create a multiple proof sheets with 
12 photos to a sheet, file names below, in jpg format which can be then 
opened in Gimp, and printed on 8.5” x 11” paper.