Moving Over to Photoshop / Setting Slice Properties
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So as I say there's one more technique, one more option I want to show you here inside Photoshop and this is sort of optional, you don't have to do this, but if you've hand-drawn out your slices as I've done here you might be kind of sitting there going, you know, they're not accurate. How do I know that they're absolutely bang on the money in terms of their widths and their heights and all the rest of it, right? We took so much time in Illustrator to set this thing up, right? So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to hold down Command or Ctrl on the Windows side and try this, try double-clicking on the Go Wheels Go slice and that'll bring you into your Slice Options dialog box and what we can do here is we can go and adjust some of our numbers. For example, this guy is supposed to be 660 pixels in width, see we have the Width Field down here, and his height should be 318. Now you also have x and y, so these options are right out of Illustrator's Transform Panel. The only thing is that your y Value is going to be different in Photoshop than it is in Illustrator but you can certainly use your width and height values if you want, so you might want to take a moment here and just sort of go through and just make sure that all your slices are absolutely perfect. So I'm going to go down here to the Robot Army slice, holding down Ctrl or Command, double-click on him, he should be 325 by 260 actually, so I was off by quite a bit here. Click on OK, move over to the next guy; 325 by 260 and because there are so few slices we can probably get through this pretty quickly - 325 and 325 by 260; that guy was bang on and two more here, the scientist there, he should be 320, his width and his height should be 260. Go ahead and lock that in and then last but not least this column here for our Ads, go ahead and double-click on him. He should be 320 for his width and 590 for the height. So maybe yours are bang on the money, maybe they're off just a little bit as mine were, so you can go through if you wish, and you can readjust your values if you want. Go ahead there. And if you want, you can flip back over to Illustrator and use your settings back in Illustrator as a reference or as a guide. So anyway, there you go. There's setting up your slices using accurate numbers.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | MasterClass! - Adobe Creative Suite: Web Design Workflow |
| Author: | Geoff Blake |
| SKU: | 34049 |
| ISBN: | |
| Release Date: | 2009-10-20 |
| Duration: | 2.5 hrs / 36 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | For Online University members only |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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