Understanding slicing

When we start to talk about optimizing our Photoshop documents for the web, one of the …terms that you'll hear is slicing. …And slicing is sort of an old-school web design term that refers to a time when we would separate …larger images into multiple pieces and then reassemble those "slices" using HTML tables. …In today's modern web design, this isn't necessarily the way it's done. …Images are able to be optimized more efficiently, browsers are faster, and so are connection …speeds, and now we have HTML and CSS to divide our things up equally. …So if that's true, what do we use slicing for? …Well, in my personal workflow, I use slicing for a variety of different tasks, but the most …common workflow for me is to use slicing to define what I call areas of export.…

I have open here a document with several different banner ads that I will need to place throughout …a web site that I'm working on. …I've used the Slice tool to select the different regions so that I know exactly what is going …to be exported when I'm ready to take these graphics out to the web. …