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Olympia Corcotiis
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January 18, 2020
Question

divide an image into a number of equal (or any) pieces to save them as separate files

  • January 18, 2020
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Hey all 🙂 since you helped me so well last time I want to reach out to you again.

 

What would be the best way to divide an image into a number of equal (or any) pieces to save them as separate files. They should be saved in print quality, NOT png, NOT for the web. What I actually want to achieve is a set of playing cards with sets of nine which a landscape image, which is separated into as many pieces as cards for each set (9), one piece of the image on each card. Which program would be best suited? Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator? Here is a sample of what I mean:

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LaubenderCommunity Expert
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January 18, 2020

Hi Olympia,

if the number of tiles will not exceed 10 you can do this very well with InDesign.

 

From my German InDesign.

I did a non-facing pages document with 10 pages in the first spread of the document.

Placed and scaled one image so that all pages 1-10 are covered by the image:

 

 

Then you can export one single PDF with all the pages. Or you could export the pages in a way that every page is a single PDF like below:

 

If you need more than 10 tiles you have to switch to a different app because InDesign can only hold a maximum of 10 pages per spread. A silly restriction I think, because before InDesign CS6 one could do more pages per spread with a trick by scripting. No more in all version CS6 and above.

 

Also consider Adobe Illustrator where you can define any number of artboards ( Illustrator's term for pages ) where you can arrange the artboards in rows and columns.

 

How to do a spread in InDesign with more than two pages? See:

Create a multiple-page spread

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/pages-spreads-1.html

 

Note: Best start with a non-facing pages document with one single page the size of one single tile.

 

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

 

 

rob day
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rob dayCommunity Expert
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January 18, 2020

Hi Uwe, I think Olympia would have to also consider a bleed for the black borders, so if the bleed is .125" the pages could be selected with the Pages tool and a .25" space between each page could be made via the transform panel:

 

 

Then the question is whether the image tile can be made with a single image crossing over the 10 page spread, where some parts of the image will get clipped by the bleed and border, or does she need to step and repeat the image so the edges match?

 

The crossover is easy—the border could be on a layer above the single crossover:

 

 

It might be possible to get around the 10 page limit by copying the spread and continuing the image. Here my spread is 32.5" including bleeds, and my image’s actual width is 65":

 

 

    JonathanArias
    JonathanArias
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    January 18, 2020

    i think this is a photoshop job.

    you can make guide grid:

     

    than make slices, export, save for web legacy, and do high res .jpg images. if you are doing a smart object it will be resolution independent. and you can crank out the slices at a high resolution also for print from the dialog.

     

     

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