How to split images

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Steven Jones
Nov 23, 2005
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I’m using Photoshop to design walls and floors for The Sims 2. The wall and floor creation program (Homecrafter) expects the bitmaps to be a particular size. I’m creating large banners that are wider than that size, so I need to break the image into pieces. How do I do this in Photoshop?
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Harry Limey
Nov 23, 2005
"Steven Jones" wrote in message
I’m using Photoshop to design walls and floors for The Sims 2. The wall and floor creation program (Homecrafter) expects the bitmaps to be a particular size. I’m creating large banners that are wider than that size, so I need to break the image into pieces. How do I do this in Photoshop?
Crop tool?
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Steven Jones
Nov 23, 2005
I need to split these images to pixel-width accuracy. Besides, the crop tool discards the rest of the image, rather than putting it elsewhere, like another image.
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Roberto
Nov 24, 2005
"Steven Jones" wrote in message
I need to split these images to pixel-width accuracy. Besides, the crop tool discards the rest of the image, rather than putting it elsewhere, like another image.

Steve, I am not sure exactly what you are doing, but you can automate placing slices, and saving the slices as separate images. If that is the direction you want to take, write back to us.
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Steven Jones
Nov 24, 2005
I tried that. But I could only save as 256 colour images, not true colour (I used Save for Web). But yeah, that’s the sort of thing I want to do.
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neon
Nov 24, 2005
Steven Jones wrote:

I tried that. But I could only save as 256 colour images, not true colour (I used Save for Web). But yeah, that’s the sort of thing I want to do.
crop tool – set width and height in the options bar then save the result as a new file. reopen the original and crop the other portion(s) in the same manner so you end up with the pieces in new files. or use the marquee tool to precisely select pieces (the info pallette gives precise pixel coordinates) then place the pieces on seperate layers. then save the layers as new files or use the crop command to crop to the selection borders and save as new files. you could also use the pen tool to make precise selections and then the crop command. those are 3 that come to mind immediately (they are a bit tedious) and i’m sure there are others.
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Iordani
Nov 24, 2005
Steven Jones wrote:

I tried that. But I could only save as 256 colour images, not true colour (I used Save for Web). But yeah, that’s the sort of thing I want to do.

Maybe you must change to 8-bit mode to save in other formats
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Tacit
Nov 24, 2005
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"Steven Jones" wrote:

I tried that. But I could only save as 256 colour images, not true colour (I used Save for Web). But yeah, that’s the sort of thing I want to do.

That’s because you told Save for Web to save GIF. All GIF images can only be 256 colors or fewer. You need to tell Save for Web to use JPEG or PNG if you want 24-bit color.

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Bill Hilton
Nov 24, 2005
Steven Jones writes …

I need to break the image into pieces. How do I do this in Photoshop? … I need to split these images to pixel-width accuracy

A brute-force way is to draw a grid with Guides (View – New Guide and enter pixel dimensions) to get the exact placement, then use the Rectangular Marquee tool to draw a selection box (it should snap to the Guide), then do Cntrl-C to copy this and cntrl-n to make a new file and cntrl-v to dump the copied selection into a new file. Then move to the next slice.

I’m sure there’s a fancier way to automate this with Slices or something but I’m a brute-force kind of guy, sorry 🙂 Anyway, what I described will work fine.

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kitakits
Nov 24, 2005
You can use the slice tool and save the image as jpg using Photoshop or its sister program image ready.
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Roberto
Nov 24, 2005
"Bill Hilton" wrote in message
A brute-force way is to draw a grid with Guides (View – New Guide and enter pixel dimensions) to get the exact placement, then use the Rectangular Marquee tool to draw a selection box (it should snap to the Guide), then do Cntrl-C to copy this and cntrl-n to make a new file and cntrl-v to dump the copied selection into a new file. Then move to the next slice.

I’m sure there’s a fancier way to automate this with Slices or something but I’m a brute-force kind of guy, sorry 🙂 Anyway, what I described will work fine.

Brute force is cool, but you are right that there’s an easier way. Create guides, slice on guides, save slices. 🙂 CS2 or ImageReady since version wayback.

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