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April 3, 2011
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Photoshop: Slice Comps that work like Layer Comps

  • April 3, 2011
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Layer Compositions are very handy to manage huge amounts of layers in one file e.g. if your working on screen interface layouts. You work on your layout, save this arrangement of visible/invisible layers in a Layer Composition and you can work straight away on the next screenlayout with a different arrangement of layers in another Layer Composition.

Additionally Photoshop has the great feature of Image Slices.
You cut your document in smaller assets and export them in one single step. This works great together with Layer Compositions.
As soon as you have lots of overlapping Slices, it becomes a mess and is very painful.
You have to arrange them new, you don't see them, because they are in background and so on...

So here is the simple, but timesaving idea:
Add Slice Compositions that work exactly like Layer Compositions.
Or better and simpler: Combine Slice Compositions to Layer Compositions.
Simply save the arranged slices in a Layer Composition.

This feature could become a enormous timesaver for designers.
Imagine if you could export all your assets of all your screenlayouts in one single step ...

18 replies

Inspiring
November 20, 2011
@Jeffrey -- Actually, I just found out from Enzo, that Mac Tyler successfully convinced Enzo to add in this functionality, and I just confirmed on the Mac OSX... Enzo says it will be ready for Windows platform in a few weeks...
Legend
August 17, 2011
Thanks for the feedback Mac.
Participating Frequently
August 17, 2011
@Jeffrey, sorry but that plugin does not work in that fashion. It switches the slice set based on the selected layer not whether the layer containing the slice set is visible or not. Unfortunately this means that the groups cannot be controlled in any way by the layer comps. 😞
Inspiring
August 4, 2011
I just figured it out!!! I am a freaking GENIUS!

Just keep entire project in a group, and everytime you make a new slice comp, delete that group and save an empty document calling it 'SLICE COMP...' since it has the exact dimensions and slice info, you just drop your project group with Shift pressed, save slices and you're done.

But yeah Adobe is kinda missing that feature... I requested it back in CS3 and nothing...
Joshycage3
Participant
May 19, 2011
I need the ability To have multiple slice groups available in one file, slice groups that you can turn on and off.

I need to see all the elements of my software interface and adjust them in one file. If i had slice groups i wouldnt have to send slices to that back of the stack and cycle through to find my file endlessly to find the slices i need to export. I have layer folders with different save for web sets, but no corresponding slice layer groups. so i have to sort each slice element to the top in order to save out the layer group in save for web. pretty much a pain.

and when are we going to be able to save out our photoshop file as a css or HTML 5 file. Adobe should create and application adobe photoshop developer edition.

Legend
April 21, 2011
Doesn't hurt to try and get your feedback on what you like or don't like with it. There are lots of great third party tools out there. We may, or may not, be able to make something better natively. (A lot of our 'features' are actually built on our scripting SDK)
paulheyerAuthor
Participant
April 21, 2011
Thanks for your reply! I know this tool but I'm not sure if i want to use this for some reasons. For a long time there was no Mac version, it isn't native, no idea what happens if you open a file without this extension ... i think this tool is very powerful, but i would love to find its basic functionality in PS natively implemented.
Legend
April 18, 2011
I just noticed some enterprising person has created a way to store slice data on a per layer basis:

http://www.electriciris.com/slicemast...

It may work to store the layers on and off with Layer Comps.