Exporting individual elements from a photoshop file

[default6qimth19nd9l]

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? 

[D Fosse · Accepted solution]

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).

[default6qimth19nd9l]

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

[jane-e]

@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

[default6qimth19nd9l]

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😬

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

>>>I'm not an expert in Storyline, ... it usually starts in PowerPoint

Not really. For best results, a Storyline presentation should start directly in Storyline--however, SL can convert PPT presentations into SL objects. The conversion is one-way. 

The reason you might have heard that is that most subject matter experts (SMEs) have PPT already and provide the info to the designer in that format. 

[Stephen Marsh]

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.