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How to split images
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| Steven Jones 2005-11-23, 6:16 pm |
| 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 2005-11-23, 6:16 pm |
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"Steven Jones" <stevenj76@aapt.net.au> wrote in message
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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?
Crop tool?
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| Steven Jones 2005-11-23, 10:14 pm |
| 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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| Lorem Ipsum 2005-11-23, 10:14 pm |
| "Steven Jones" <stevenj76@aapt.net.au> wrote in message
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>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 2005-11-24, 3:15 am |
| 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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| 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.
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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 2005-11-24, 6:15 pm |
| 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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| In article <dm3cr1$q07$1@news-02.connect.com.au>,
"Steven Jones" <stevenj76@aapt.net.au> 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 2005-11-24, 6:15 pm |
| >Steven Jones writes ...
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>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.
Bill
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| kitakits.com 2005-11-24, 6:15 pm |
| You can use the slice tool and save the image as jpg using Photoshop or
its sister program image ready.
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| Lorem Ipsum 2005-11-24, 6:15 pm |
| "Bill Hilton" <bhilton665@aol.com> wrote in message
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> 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.
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> 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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