[gimp] Guides: Imitating Slices

[truefusion 3]

In the GIMP there's a feature known as a guide which is about as close as you can get to the way Photoshop slices an image. You may not be able to generate an HTML TABLE out of the guides (don't even attempt to via "Save As" —not good) like with slices in ImageReady (Photoshop uses ImageReady to generate the HTML TABLE; last i checked), but it still helps when slicing an image GIMP style.

 

Note: I'm using the development version of the GIMP (version 2.3.18), so the location for the guides tool may not be the same.

 

I've made a quickie template just for this tutorial. This tutorial will be quick, straight-forward and simple.

 

After making a template for yourself, select the rectangular marquee tool. Make a selection on a section of your template like so:

FIgure 1

 

Then go to Image > Guides > New Guide from Selection.

 

Repeat the process until you have filled the template with guides:

Figure 2

 

Now you can select an area with ease:

Figure 3

 

And Edit > Copy Visible, then File > New, then Edit > Paste (you may have to make a new layer for the float) and save as an image:

[Imtay22 0]

Yeahh! Thanks true I've been waiting for this! Now that I got photoshop I can do more, but that is always good to know just in case it gets lost! Short and sweet, but it gets to the point!

[truefusion 3]

If you slice an image in Photoshop, and then open up the PSD in the GIMP, you'll notice that the slices are now guides. Just a little side note.

[Ridwan sameer 0]

WOW.I never knew this could e done in GIMP. Keep up the good work fusion. You really are great in using GIMP. You make anything in PS possible here LOL.G/L

[nguoimoi 0]

I love GIMP. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program. It makes I not think about photoshop.

[iGuest 3]

But in GIMP text layers became a ordinary rastered layers...

so I'm open to any suggestions how to do that

10x

-question by Sevda Mircheva

 

[iGuest 3]

In the GIMP there's a feature known as a guide which is about as close as you can get to the way Photoshop slices an image. You may not be able to generate an HTML TABLE out of the guides (don't even attempt to via "Save As" not good) like with slices in ImageReady (Photoshop uses ImageReady to generate the HTML TABLE; last i checked), but it still helps when slicing an image GIMP style.

 

Note: I'm using the development version of the GIMP (version 2.3.18), so the location for the guides tool may not be the same.

 

I've made a quickie template just for this tutorial. This tutorial will be quick, straight-forward and simple.

 

After making a template for yourself, select the rectangular marquee tool. Make a selection on a section of your template like so:

FIgure 1

 

Then go to Image > Guides > New Guide from Selection.

 

Repeat the process until you have filled the template with guides:

Figure 2

 

Now you can select an area with ease:

Figure 3

 

And Edit > Copy Visible, then File > New, then Edit > Paste (you may have to make a new layer for the float) and save as an image:

 

if you want to do it more automatic, the shotcuts are here :

 

CTRL R => mark the needed region,

CTRL SHIFT C => save selected to clipboard

CTRL SHIFT V => CREATE FILE FROM CLIpBOARD