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cutting up a layer in photoshop
Hi,
I wonder if anybody knows an easy way to cut up a layer in many pieces, and turn them into different layers with the same position in space?I’m preparing an image for animation in after effects and it would be great if there was some way to pen out where I want the cuts, press a button and get multiple layers with parts of the image, but exactly the same image when you look at it with all the layers visible.
Jakob
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3 Replies
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Shatter, using a shatter map you created?
(There’s a basic tutorial on the COW — you’ll have to mess with the settings)… or Gradient Wipe using a black & white design you created as a gradient?
(if I get your meaning…)
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Seems like this might be better placed in a photoshop forum, but here goes.
You can do this in photoshop or after effects just the way you described – with the pen tool. In AE, you’ll want to duplicate the layer you’re going to slice up as many times as layers you want, then use the pen tool to simply mask out a different portion of each layer.
In PS, take the pen tool and draw an outline around where you want the cut to go (make sure the pen tool options are set to draw a path instead of a shape or fill pixels). Once you have a closed path, go to your paths palette (in the same window as the layers palette) and click on the third button from the left (“load path as selection”). Go back to your layers palette, make sure the layer you want to cut is selected, and press ctrl+shift+j (or go to Layer/new/layer via cut).
Hope I understood what you were asking for.
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Hi Jakob.
I would recommend trying my ‘Separate Masks in Layers’ script, available at https://www.crgreen.com/aesripts. Make a bunch of masks on your layer for the various animatable parts, then run the script to create new layers based on each of those masks — it includes an option for creating new anchor points at the center of each mask.
I hope this works for you …-CG
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