: Exporting individual layers in Photoshop, keeping their sizes I‘m trying to export individual layers in Photoshop as PNGs, keeping their size. So if I have a layer that is 200×200 in a composition

@Kaufman565

Select Layer and go to Layer → Export As in CS6.

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@Shelton719

Solution number 1:

Draw a Marquee selection around the element;
choose Edit → Copy Merged
File → New; hit Return;
“Paste.”

now you have your element ready to be saved in png format

Solution number 2:

right click on the layer (or group of layers) choose to duplicate the layer (or group) choose New as a destination

and you get a new document with your layer(s)

:)

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@Voss6371140

File→Script→Export Layers to Files...

Make sure that Trim Layers is checked before exporting. This will save a 200×200 layer within a 1000×1000 composition as a 200×200 PNG file.

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@Dunderdale640

I'm not sure this question is on-topic, but it's the first question on the site, so here we go:

What you're looking for are layer based slices.


Select the layers you want to export, go to Layer > New Layer Based Slice(s)
Go to File > Save for Web & Devices...
When saving, choose "All User Slices"


If you have overlapping layers, which you will have more often than not, you might have to repeat the process a few times, hiding certain layers each time.

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@RJPawlick971

One thing you can do is:


Hide everything you don't want to see (option click the "eye" icon of your chosen layer)
Select all
Copy merged
Create a new file (it'll automatically be the size of your clipboard, which should have resized to the size of actual pixels in your selection)
Paste and save as a PNG
Repeat!


There are scripts for this if you have an insane amount of layers, but an initial Google search didn't turn up a whole lot of these.

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