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January 21, 2022
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Exporting individual elements from a photoshop file

  • January 21, 2022
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I have a client who has designed a number of 'slides' in photoshop. We need to export every element on every slide to recreate it in Storyline 360 which is an elearning software as there is no other way to recreate what this client wants in Storyline. I have tried using export layers to individual slides but this has not given me what I thought it would. Is there a similar quick way to export every element on each 'slide'  to a file without having to click on each element, find it and saving them all individually? 

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Correct answer D Fosse

Photoshop doesn't operate with "objects" like a vector application would. It's all just pixels. Each element needs to be on a separate layer (in a psd or tiff file, which are the only formats that support layers). Then you can export layers to files.

 

If two elements are on the same layer, they first need to be manually selected and moved to separate layers (or saved out individually).

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Stephen Marsh
Stephen Marsh
Community Expert
January 22, 2022

In addition to the "more traditional" method of using the layers to file script, as an alternative you can select all of the layers in the layers panel and then right click them and use Export As command.

jane-e
jane-e
Community Expert
January 21, 2022

@default6qimth19nd9l 

I'm not an expert in Storyline, but one thing I've picked up about eLearning from the IconLogic experts at various seminars I've attended is that it usually starts in PowerPoint, never Photoshop. https://blog.iconlogic.com/weblog/articulate-storyline/

 

@D Fosse is spot on with his answer if you have to extract the information from Photoshop, but it may prove to be more difficult than you expect.

 

 

 

 

Jane

 

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default6qimth19nd9lAuthor
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January 21, 2022

Thank you for your reply. We would always use PPT but in this case the client is a graphic designer and designed the slides in Photoshop so we need to recreate it in Storyline and I m looking for the quickest way to do this😬

D Fosse
D FosseCorrect answer
Community Expert
January 21, 2022

Photoshop doesn't operate with "objects" like a vector application would. It's all just pixels. Each element needs to be on a separate layer (in a psd or tiff file, which are the only formats that support layers). Then you can export layers to files.

 

If two elements are on the same layer, they first need to be manually selected and moved to separate layers (or saved out individually).

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    default6qimth19nd9lAuthor
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    January 21, 2022

    Thank you for your reply. Yes we are currently manually saving each 'element' as a png file and it's very time consuming 😳

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