To change the color of slice lines:

1 Do one of the following:

• (Photoshop) In Windows and Mac OS 9.x, choose Edit > Preferences > Guides, Grid, & Slices; in Mac OS X, choose Photoshop > Preferences > Guides, Grid, & Slices.

• (ImageReady) In Windows and Mac OS 9.x, choose Edit > Preferences > Slices; in Mac OS X, choose ImageReady > Preferences > Slices.

2 Under Slice Lines, choose a color from the Line Color pop-up menu.

Changing the color of slice lines automatically changes the color of selected slice lines to a contrasting color.

To change slice color adjustments (ImageReady):

1 Do one of the following:

•In Windows and Mac OS 9.x, choose Edit > Preferences > Slices.

•In Mac OS X, choose ImageReady > Preferences > Slices.

2 Enter a value, or choose a value from the Color Adjustments pop-up slider for User slices, Auto slices, or both. (The User slices option controls color adjustments for both user slices and layer-based slices.)

The value determines by how much the brightness and contrast of unselected slices are dimmed.

Selecting and modifying slices

You can move, duplicate, combine, divide, resize, delete, arrange, align, and distribute user slices. There are fewer options for modifying layer-based slices and auto slices; however, you can promote a layer-based slice or an auto slice to a user slice at any time.

In Photoshop, you cannot combine, align, or distribute slices. Jump to ImageReady to access these slice-editing capabilities.

Using the Slice palette (ImageReady)

To display the Slice palette:

Choose Window > Slice, or click the palette button on the right side of the options bar for the slice select tool.

Selecting slices

You select a slice with the slice select tool in order to apply modifications to it. In the Photoshop Save for Web dialog box and in ImageReady, you can select multiple slices.

To select a slice:

Do one of the following:

•Select the slice select tool , and click on a slice in the image. When working with overlapping slices, click the visible section of an underlying slice to select it.

To toggle between the slice tool and the slice select tool, hold down Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS).

•(ImageReady) Select a slice in the Rollovers palette. (See “Using the Rollovers palette” on page 398.)

To select multiple slices (ImageReady):

With the slice select tool , do one of the following:

•Shift-click to add slices to the selection.

•Click in an auto slice or outside the image area, and drag across the slices you want to select. (Clicking in a user slice and dragging moves the slice.)

In ImageReady, you can save, load, and delete slice selections. Using slice selections lets you reselect specific slices quickly and accurately.

To save a slice selection (ImageReady):

1Select one or more slices.

2Choose Slices > Save Slice Selection.

3Enter a name in the Selection Name text box, and click OK.

To load a slice selection (ImageReady):

Choose Slices > Load Slice Selection, and select the name of the slice selection you want to load from the submenu.

Note: You must save a slice selection before you can load it.

To delete a slice selection (ImageReady):

Choose Slices > Delete Slice Selection, and select the name of the slice selection you want to delete from the submenu. Deleting a slice selection does not delete the slices themselves.

Moving and resizing user slices

You can move and resize user slices in Photoshop and ImageReady, but not in the Photoshop Save for Web dialog box. You can also move and resize slices using numeric coordinates. (See “Resizing and moving slices using numeric coordinates” on page 380.)

To move or resize a user slice:

1Select a user slice. In ImageReady, you can select and move multiple slices.

2Do one of the following:

•To move a slice, move the pointer inside the slice selection border, and drag the slice to a new position. Press Shift to restrict movement to a vertical, horizontal, or 45° diagonal line.

•To resize a slice, grab a side or a corner handle of the slice, and drag to resize the slice. In ImageReady, if you select and resize adjacent slices, common edges shared by the slices are resized together.

To snap slices to a guide or another user slice:

1Select the options you want from the View > Snap To submenu, and choose View > Snap. (See “Using the Snap command” on page 172.) A check mark indicates that the option is turned on.

2Move the selected slices as desired. The slices snap to any guide or slice within 4 pixels.

To copy and paste a slice (ImageReady):

1Select one or more slices.

2Choose Copy Slice from the Slice palette menu.

3If you want to paste into another image, open and display that image.

4Choose Paste Slice from the Slice palette menu. If you paste the slice into the same image as you copied it from, the pasted slice appears on top of the original.

Combining slices (ImageReady)

In ImageReady, you can combine two or more slices into a single slice. The resulting slice takes its dimensions and position from the rectangle created by joining the outer edges of the combined slices. If the combined slices are not adjacent or are of different proportions or alignments, the newly combined slice may overlap other slices.

Optimization settings for the combined slice are those of the first slice selected before the Combine Slices operation. A combined slice is always a user slice, regardless of whether the original slices include auto slices.

Note: You cannot combine layer-based slices.

To combine slices:

1Select two or more slices.

2Choose Slices > Combine Slices.

Arranging user slices and layer-based slices

When slices overlap, the last slice you create is the top slice in the stacking order. You can change the stacking order to gain access to underlying slices.You can specify which slice is on the top and bottom of the stack and move slices up or down in the stacking order.

Note: You cannot arrange the stacking order of auto slices.

To change the stacking order of slices:

1Select a slice. In ImageReady, you can select multiple slices.

2Do one of the following:

•With the slice select tool active, click a stacking order option in the options bar: Bring to Front , Bring Forward , Send Backward , Send to Back .

•(ImageReady) Choose Slices > Arrange, and choose a stacking order command from the submenu; or choose a stacking order command from the Slice palette menu.

•(ImageReady) Drag the slice up or down in the Rollovers palette. (See “Using the Rollovers palette” on page 398.)

Aligning user slices (ImageReady)

In ImageReady, you can align user slices with the top, bottom, left, right, or middle. Aligning user slices can eliminate unneeded auto slices and generate a smaller, more efficient HTML file.

Note: To align layer-based slices, align the contents of the layers. (See “Repositioning the contents of layers” on page 289.)