I sometimes have to slice up images for web production using photoshop, and my current method is not very efficient.

I know there is a better way to do this. Perhaps something where I could just draw my cut lines across the images, then execute some sort of "Slice Up" command, which would create new files for each slice. Or something to that effect. Does anyone know the best way to do this?

ImageReady does this automagically for you, even generating the html code ... go to the Help utility and search on 'slices' ...

You can also do it from within Photoshop. Use the Slice tool to slice up your image and the Slice Select tool to select and modify a slice. If you double-click on a slice with the Slice Select tool, you will have access to further name and modify the slice.

Once in the SfW dialog box, select a slice and specify an optimization setting. You can elect to save each individual slice as a GIF, JPEG or PNG. Select all the slices with the Slice Select tool that you want to save and then in the Save Optimized As dialog box, you can select whether you want to save all slices, selected slices, images only or images and HTML code.

There's plenty of info in the help file re slices as well as tutorials on the Internet. Do a search on http://graphicssoft.about.com/

ImageReady CS has more options for slicing and saving slice information.

HTH.

Shangara Singh.
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