You can extract a slice of your original background image without losing the original. And yes, there are other ways to achieve the same goal. For instance, you can use the Marquee tool to select the area you want to preserve, and then you can just copy and paste the selection into a new document.
Using the Slice Select tool, you can also modify your existing slices. Use this tool to change the dimensions or move a slice to a more favorable location before exporting. For more slicing tips and tricks, check out our helpful tutorial video. Each Photoshop Basics Tutorial includes a sample image so you can learn at your own pace and follow along with the video. Slice Tool. How to Use the Slice Tool in Photoshop.
Aaron Nace. Start Watching. Sell it by the slice? In this tutorial, learn to use the Slice Tool to cut up an image and prepare if for the web. What is the Slice Tool? You can use Photoshop to create or edit images, posters, banners, logos, invitation cards, and various types of graphic designing work. It provides various tools for designing and editing and the slice tool and slice select tool are one of them.
The slice tool and the slice select tool in Photoshop are very much related and connected to each other. Slice Tool The slice tool slices the whole Photoshop document into various slices. It helps users to slice up a big image or artwork into smaller sections that fit together like a jigsaw but they all have straight edges. Or in other words, the slice tool helps to extract a slice of the image without cutting or cropping it.
It can be used for several cases when a single large image needs to slice down into several pieces. It can slice the image or diagram into either square or rectangular pieces. The slice select tool helps to select the slices and move them anywhere in the document. This tool is used extensively by web developers where they need the image to be divided into small pieces and exported individually. With the help of this tool, we can also export a small part of the image according to our needs as a separate image from a large image.
Thus, it is very useful for web developers. The slice tool is present in the section of the crop tool in the tool palette in Photoshop. Step 3: Now create a slice of the image from where you want. After drawing the slice, you will see that Photoshop automatically draws other slices to match the whole document.
Here in the above diagram, the orange-bordered box is the slice that we have created and the other blue-bordered boxes are created automatically by Photoshop.
Now we will learn how to save slices in Photoshop. So to save slices in Photoshop follow the following steps: Step 1: After creating slices go to the File menu and select save for web option like as shown in the below image: Step 2: After selecting the save for web option, a dialogue box appears on the screen in which, using the shift key select each of the slices that you have created.
Step 3: After selecting slices go to the preset option and select the format that you want. Step 4: After pressing the save button a dialog box appears on the screen in which you can keep the default settings and then press Save. And your file saves in the given location, like as shown in the below image:. Style Style has three options — Normal, Fixed aspect ratio, fixed size. Normal: This option is selected by default. It makes normal slices that can be of any size and aspect ratio.
Fixed aspect ratio: In this option, the selections are made based on a fixed aspect ratio i. We can change the value of width and height. Suppose the width and height are set to 2 and 3. Fixed Size: Using this option we can set the height and width of the slice in pixel.
Width This option is used to sets the width of the selection when the style option is fixed aspect ratio or fixed size. Height This option is used to sets the height of the selection when the style option is fixed aspect ratio or fixed size. Note: The width and height are disabled initially because the normal style option is selected by default.
Slice From Guides We can also make slices with the help of the guides using the rulers. Slice Select Tool Slice Select Tool, as the name suggests, helps to select a particular slice as a basic functionality. It is a very useful and powerful tool for managing slices and has different functionalities, like moving the slices, scaling and arranging the slides.
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