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ray
20th June 2004, 08:25 PM
Since i heard some questions about slicing around here, I decided to paste my small tut about this i posted somewhere else before...

I'm more a paint shop pro freak (yes, you CAN make great things with that) but for slicing images I secretly use Photoshop for that sometimes...

Most easy way to do this, as following:

- Load up the image you want to slice (doh)
- Enable "Show Rulers" (in photoshop: click View - Show rulers
Move the rulers (use the Move Tool for that), so that you get the lines on the same place you'd like to slice your image in.
- Click on the Jump to Image Ready button http://www.cmd.tech.nhl.nl/users/arkes300/buttin1.gif
- Go to Guides - Slices - Create slices
In every left corner of the retangles you got in your image there should be a number now.
- Go to File - Save Optimized As and choose if you want only the images, the HTML + images or just the HTML.
Image Ready will generate a table within the html where your sliced images will go to.

One last word of advice: You can choose in what format you want to have your final images in. Don't choose jpeg when it's only a small button with few colors, else the image will result in a file that's much more (k)b's, resulting in more traffic on your server:)

Guess that's about it, any questions?

Floris
21st June 2004, 12:14 AM
Hey, I actually learned something here, thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. 100 karma points rewarded!

Disjunto
21st June 2004, 12:31 AM
that's a strange method, i prefer using the slice tool in photoshop though, works alot quicker and effectivley :)

TheComputerGuy
21st June 2004, 02:00 AM
I was the person that needed help slicing. This is great for me to toy around with.

thank you for taking time to post this sir!

mf
21st June 2004, 11:31 AM
I'm more a paint shop pro freak (yes, you CAN make great things with that) but for slicing images I secretly use Photoshop for that sometimes...
Couldn't agree more. For me, preferably, PSP6. :) My sigs and all my deviantart (http://mf-otaking.deviantart.com) stuff are made with it. Rock on!