Templates contain layouts for printing your photos, including any text overlays and print job settings. Lightroom has a Template Browser with premade templates to use for common tasks, such as making prints and contact sheets.

Templates have image cells for containing photos and margin information. If you specify overlay options, a template can also contain text areas. A template’s image cells and margins scale to accommodate the paper size you specify.

Your selected photos appear in the work area in the center of the Print module in the template you choose. The preview updates when you choose a different template or specify different print options, such as text overlays or how the photos fill the image cells.

Print job settings, including the paper size and printer, are also saved in a print template.

You can create new templates by modifying the settings of existing templates. Select a template, and then use the controls in the right panels of the Print module, specify the paper size and printer settings in the toolbar, and then add a custom template to a folder. You can also modify a template’s image cells by dragging the margin guides or cell boundaries. Layout setting modifications, overlays, and print job specifications can be saved as a custom template.