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Hi, I have a huge 64,000 x 20,000 that I need to divide up into 2000 pixel slices. When I select both horizontal and vertical to slice by pixel size, OS X Monterry newest verion of Photoshop on an 16" Macbook Pro M1 Pro with 16gb memory just starts spinning the beach ball of death for ever.
1. create the slice by selecting are the entire image the slice tool.
2. right click, choose Divide
3.. Click either to Divide Horzontally or Vertically, it doesn't matter which one you choose first.
4. Select the pixels per slice and enter 2000
5. Select the other option (Horozntally or vertically)
6. Choose pixels per slice and at this point the system ball starts spinning, even though the default value is 4000 and at the start, so not too many slices are being or would be rendered.
And the beach ball never stops.
What happens if you turn preview off? No difference I'd guess, but worth a shot! You could also try just selecting half or a quarter of the doc and then slicing to reduce the overhead.
What are you intending to do with the slices? Slice is genearlly used for Save for Web which has an 8192 px horizontal or vertical size limit.
As I'm guessing that you are not really using the slice tool for the intended Save for Web (Legacy) purpose due to the large unsupported size
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What happens if you turn preview off? No difference I'd guess, but worth a shot! You could also try just selecting half or a quarter of the doc and then slicing to reduce the overhead.
What are you intending to do with the slices? Slice is genearlly used for Save for Web which has an 8192 px horizontal or vertical size limit.
As I'm guessing that you are not really using the slice tool for the intended Save for Web (Legacy) purpose due to the large unsupported size of your file, the slices must just be a means to an unknown end...
There are alternatives to the slice tool in the form of scripts that can "chop up an image into tiles"...
Some other topics where this is discussed with various scripts:
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Hey Thank you so Much! I did realize the 30k pixel limit for slicing. I grabbed one of the scripts and it worked perfectly! Thanks again!
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The 8192 pixel limit is for output from Export/Save for Web (Legacy)... Which is the only "out of the box" thing that I can think of that uses slices.
Some custom scripts can use slices. I'm not aware of a slice 30k limit.
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sorry, I was jumping ahead. I think I was thinking of the limitation of PSD vs PSB. I didn't realize that you could not slice up a PSB. And I beleive the limit of PSD is 30,000 pixels (on a side, or square... not sure...)