1. Photoshop is, undeniably, one of the
greatest software applications around. It has been around in one
version or another for the last thirteen years, which is longer than
I’ve known what CPU stands for.
2. To create a new layer set, expand the
Layer menu and select New-> Layer set.
3. The new layer set dialogue box will
appear and prompt you to enter a name for the new set.
4. Once you have OK’d this box, a folder
icon will appear in the layers panel, just drag and drop related
layers into this folder.
5. This is useful to organize your working
environment and to apply styles across ranges of layers.
6. This functionality extends to slices in Image ready. Slicing an image also decreases page load times; a couple
of slices download quicker than one large image.
7. Residing in the toolbox that appears to
the far left of your workspace, and denoted by the knife icon, the
slice tool is essential for creating click-able rectangular regions of
your image.
8. It is powered by Photoshop’s sister
product Image ready (which comes bundled with the latest release of
Photoshop), and needs to be used in Image ready to make the most of
its potential.
9. Nevertheless, Photoshop lets you add
actions when the region is rolled over or clicked, and can be
extremely useful in the creation of roll-over image-swaps or
expanding menus on image-driven web sites.
10. To create a slice, select the slice
tool and drag a rectangle across the appropriate part of your image.
That’s it. You can right-click the slice and select Edit Slice
Options to add URL, ALT and other information to the slice.
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