How to Build a Contact Sheet for Midjourney Generations

To build a useful contact sheet for Midjourney generations, export the images you want to review and place them in a visual workspace where you can see them simultaneously, ideally while preserving their natural aspect ratios and making the thumbnail size adjustable.

That's really it.

The reason it works is more interesting.

You need context

An image changes when you see the 40 images around it.

That cinematic portrait you loved?

Turns out you made nine of it.

That random generation you nearly ignored?

Suddenly it's the most interesting image in the entire batch because it's the only thing breaking the pattern.

This is why contact sheets have been useful to photographers forever.

Generative AI just gave us a new reason to need them.

You have a few options

For a small batch, Finder or another file browser can be completely fine.

You can also create a traditional exported contact sheet or put everything into a moodboard.

Once you're dealing with 100 or 300 generations though, those workflows can start getting annoying because you're not only trying to view the images anymore.

You're trying to eliminate, compare and curate them.

That's the part WALLPAPrrr is designed for.

Drop the folder, see everything, change the scale, compare the close calls and start cutting.

And it doesn't really matter whether the images came from Midjourney.

ChatGPT, Flux, Sora, Kling, whatever.

Once they're in the folder, they're images.

The hard part is deciding which ones matter.