Slicing

[karenv14868422]

I want to slice a photo into 5 vertical columns to make a wall display  All 5 panels to be 13" wide  The middle slice 19" long, then 13" long pieces on each side of middle and then 11" long on each end. Been trying all day.  PSE 2018 windows.  Can ANYONE help?  Please o please?

[Peru Bob]

What is the pixel size of your photo?

[karenv14868422]

width - 3264; height - 2448; 4.5 MB

[Peru Bob]

I don't think you have a high enough resolution for the width of the image:

Printing images - what file size do you need? Resolution, pixel sizes and file sizes explained and c...

[Mark_Sand]

I don't know if PSE 2018 has a built-in tool to slice a picture, but here is how I do it in my old PSE version.

In this example I have a 8 x 12 picture that I want to slice into 3 panels each 4" wide.

The steps are similar for any number of panels.

1. Activate the Rectangular Marquee tool and set the fixed with and height of each panel.

2. Draw out the 1st panel:

3. Image > Crop, and save the cropped 1st panel.

4. Undo the crop.

5. Invert the selection (Select > Inverse) so that the remaining portion of the picture is now selected:

6. Image > Crop.

7. Repeat the above steps for the 2nd and 3rd panels:

    Select and crop the 2nd panel and save it:

8.  Undo selection,  Invert, and crop 3rd panel and save it:

Now you can crop the individual panels to the size you want as in this collage:

[karenv14868422]

P.S. Mark - No, PSE 2018 does not have a slicing tool.. I also purchased

that "Elements +" in an attempt to access hidden tools and I couldn't get a

"slicer" there either. (Or I'm doing something wrong.)

Thanks again for your time and help !

[Mark_Sand]

Karen,

I don't know anything about Elements Plus, but I did some Googling ("photo slicing tools") and found this.

Perhaps the Google search turn up other slicing tools as well

Slicing Tools

[MichelBParis]

Mark,

The above extract is how to add the 'slice' tool from Photoshop as a shortcut so that it appears as an icon in the tool  options bar on the bottom.

You can invoke the slice tool directly from the menu File:

- Automation tools

- scripts

- Slices

[99jon]

The slice tool is not really appropriate. In Photoshop the slice tool is designed to add hyperlinks to different sections (slices) of images. You should be able to do what you want with the crop tool or a collage as suggested by Mark.