Photo Grid for Instagram with Photoshop CC 2015: Part 2
Here is another method to create images for a photo grid upload to Instagram. It is a very smart use of the Slice Tool which is often used in the creation of webpage layouts. Like the last method, once the image is ‘cut-up’ there is a simple export option to save all the images at once.
I want to thank a colleague of mine, Pat Bombard, for showing me this method.
First crop the image into a square. To make sure the image is a perfect square go to Canvas Size (Command + Shift + C) and set the height and width to the same number; this will Crop (C) the image. Or go to the Crop tool (C) and set the ratio to 1:1.
Note: Instagram full resolution size is 3240px X 3240px at 72 dpi.
Under the Crop (C) tool select the Slice tool.
Right click inside the image. In the fly-out menu choose Divide Slice.
Click the Check Box for Divide Horizontally Into and Divide Vertically Into. Set both of these options to 3.
Go to File > Export > Save for Web (Legacy).
Or (Command + Option + Shift + S).
In the dialog menu click on the Original Tab and zoom out (Command + -) until you can see the whole image with all 9 slices.
Shift-left-click all 9 squares to highlight them. Next, on the right hand side, click the Preset drop down menu and select JPEG High. Then hit Save.
In the next dialog menu, select the location. At the bottom of the dialog box make sure Format is set to ‘Images Only’ and Slices is set to ‘All Slices’.
In the selected save location a folder named ‘images’ will pop up with all 9 images inside.
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