Looking for a tool to cut pictures into tiles

Discussion in 'Graphics & Multimedia' started by Marlon Bodicker, Apr 1, 2014.

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    Hi everybody,

    I'm looking for a tool which can cut (very) large images into small square tiles of a specific size. The tool should:
    • be able to open large .png files (12Mb, 8192x2048 pixels) with transparency
    • be able to cut these files into tiles sized 64x64 pixels
    • be able to keep the transparency
    • be able to name these tiles in a sensible fashion (ex. filename-column-row.png or similar)
    • be free or open source software
    So far, I've been cutting sample tiles by hand in Paint Shop Pro, but I'm not going to cut more than a few tiles by hand, of course :)

    ImageSplitter (http://imagesplitter.net/) looked very cool initially, but it can't handle cutting more than 32x32 tiles.

    If anyone knows of such a tool, I'd really appreciate hearing about it.

    Thanks!

    Marlon
     
    Marlon Bodicker, Apr 1, 2014 IP
  2. Gregory Kowalski

    Gregory Kowalski Active Member

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    Right, you could do all these by creating ACTIONS in Photoshop but you need to crop the image manually to make it as square shape.

    so it will take a speed of click but then you need to save is as transparent manually again.

    Please let me know if you need help with this..
     
    Gregory Kowalski, Apr 12, 2014 IP
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    Marlon Bodicker Active Member

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    Hi Gregory,

    Thank you for your help!

    I've actually used the image splitter I linked to in my original post. After looking at the .png format on the internet, I realised that it was a lossless format.

    Basically I needed to end up with 128x32 tiles, so I cut the original file in 4 files, uploaded and cut these, after which I wrote a quick Delphi program to rename these files.

    Marlon
     
    Marlon Bodicker, Apr 13, 2014 IP