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Funday Monday – Tutorial – Splicing a Signature

Have you ever wondered how you make your forum signature linked to your blog, Pinterest or Facebook? As Designers, having our signatures linked to our stores are great, but sometimes it’s hard to get everything lined up so you can get everything nice and neat. I have tried many tutorials on how to do this, but always had some issues. Well, that all changed today when I found a tutorial on how to use the ‘Splice Tool’ in Photoshop. Now the site I found was kind of confusing http://www.ehow.com/how_5883239_slice-photoshop.html – so let me show you how I did it.

Step 1: Open your signature file and click on the arrow next to the ‘Crop tool’ and select the ‘Slice Tool’
splicetool

Step 2: Using the ‘Select tool’ Select the first section you want to cut out – for me it is my blog
setting each section

Step 3: In order to keep everything lined up correctly, using the ‘Slice tool’ go to the top right corner of the piece you just sliced and slice out your next section. Continue this for as many slices as you need.
mysectionssliced

Step 4: Once you have your signature all sliced up (hehe)_ you will want to save for web.
saveforweb

Step 5: Create a folder – ‘Signature Slices’
saveforweb3

Step 6: Once you have saved the file, go to your Windows Explorer and check out the folder ‘Signature Slices’. There you will see another folder called ‘Images’ and there you will find each of your slices as individual files. I would recommend renaming for what ever they were sliced for – ex. Blog, Facebook, store.. etc.
saveforweb4saveforweb5

Unfortunately, this website won’t show everything next to each other, so I apologize for that but you can see what I mean for each piece.
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Hope you enjoyed this tutorial, got to learn a new tool like I did! Have a great day!
Hugs,
Meg

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