: How to can extract all icons from an .eps file? I Have shutterstock_219776725.eps that I downloaded from http://www.shutterstock.com/ , it looks like this when I open it in Photoshop. I want

@Kimberly620

There is no tool that can automagically do this in one action. Both drawing slices in PS and drawing artboards in illustrator are sane options. The EPS format itself gives no structural guarantees for ensuring that this in fact can be done.

A software could be made to do this. How well it would work depends on strategy used. For this case its pretty trivial to do. How well it would work as a general tool is another thing. Which leads us to the point that its not really worth automating this with only one file. Although certainly a slice into grid tool could be scripted easily.

In this particular case you could do the following: Select groups from the layers palette. From layers palette menu (small icon in upper right corner) choose release to layers. Then use export layers extension to export each layer. Note your icons would still retain the text which could be easily deleted before doing this.

Slicing to grid would also be pretty easy to do with imagemagick.

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@Jamie315

Someone else said Illustrator but didn't really go into a lot of detail.

Open the eps in Illustrator. Use the select tool (key command v) to drag a box around the icon you'd like to convert. Go to object > artboards > fit to selected art. The rest of the image will remain but won't be included in the png.

From there go to file>save for web and devices

After you've saved your png you can ctrl+z or command+z to step back until your artboard is back to normal and repeat.

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@Radia289

Automation would be a waste of time unless you need to do this on a lot of images. The easy thing to do in Photoshop, is to drag out guides into a grid enclosing your icons. Then use the slice tool. Select the slice tool and look in the Options bar. There should be an option for "Slices from Guides". Then Photoshop will let you save each slice and assign URL's and so forth in the Save For Web dialogue. These tools are specifically designed for web developement.

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@Marchetta832

Open in Adobe Illustrator.
Create artboards underneath icons.
Export artboards as PNG.

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