, we often need to cut a single picture into six squares, nine squares and other forms to meet the needs of various platforms or enhance the visual effect. This article will introduce five tools for cropping pictures: HeSoft Doc Batch Tool WPS picture tools, imagestool, Image Splitter, GridMaker, etc. In addition to manual cutting tools, there is also a segmentation function, which can automatically divide the picture into 3 × 3 grids, keeping the size of each slice consistent while retaining the original image quality. This approach both avoids the complexity of manual measurements and ensures the integrity of the final splice. This article will take the practical application as an example to introduce how to quickly complete the nine-square-grid segmentation operation of the picture.
Effect Preview
before processing, the complete original image:
after processing, each image is divided into nine small images:
1. HeSoft Doc Batch Tool
Advantages:
- professional processing software, supports various formats of pictures, can choose to divide each picture into 6 or 9.
- The operation steps are few and difficult, and the segmentation accuracy and efficiency are much higher than manual operation. Any ordinary white can be used directly to achieve efficient and accurate results.
- It can batch process multiple files at once, which is very suitable for users who need to process a large number of files on a daily basis.
- Support in the horizontal, vertical custom set any number of pictures.
Disadvantages:
- you need to install software on your computer.
Operation steps:
1. Open 【 HeSoft Doc Batch Tool ], click [Picture Tools] in the left column, the software interface will be displayed as follows, and then click [1. Split the picture into multiple small pictures]].
2. Click [Add File] in the upper right corner to add the picture to be cropped to the software. This software supports adding and processing multiple pictures at once.
3. Enter the split setting page, select [Average Split] for split method, and then fill in the number of horizontal and vertical split maps. To split into nine squares, fill in "3" in both directions.
4. All pictures are divided and the software interface is displayed as follows.
2. WPS Picture Tools
advantages:
- WPS picture tool comes with cropping function, WPS users can directly use, no need to install other software.
Disadvantages:
- it can only be cut manually, which is prone to errors and cannot be cut as accurately as the first tool.
- Only one picture can be cut at a time, and only one picture can be cut out, and multiple pictures cannot be processed in batch.
Operation steps:
1. Find the picture to be cropped on the [Resource Manager] page, right-click the picture file, and select [Open Method] → [WPS Picture] in the menu].
2. After the [WPS Picture] is opened, the picture just selected will be displayed. At this time, click [Edit] → [Crop] in the upper right corner, and a [WPS Picture Editor] will pop up in the software interface, as shown in the following figure.
3. Drag the cutting position as required, and click the blue icon [√] after confirmation to see the effect of cutting out a sub-map.
4. After confirming the cutting effect, click [Export] in the upper right corner. After setting the information such as saving quality, proportion, picture size and format in the new pop-up saving window, click [Confirm] in the lower right corner. If you need to cut out multiple sub-maps, you can repeat the above operation.
3. imagestool
advantages:
- open the imagestool web page in the browser and you can use it without installing software to take up memory.
- Multiple pictures can be cropped at once.
Disadvantages:
- online processing is different from local processing, the picture needs to be uploaded to the web page, and another download is required after the processing is completed, which is complicated and may take more time.
- It can only be cut manually, nor can it be cut directly and accurately into multiple pictures, which may be prone to errors.
- Although it can be processed in batches, each operation can only crop one sub-image from each image.
Operation steps:
1. Open the web page where the imagestool is located in the browser, select [Crop Picture] in the function menu on the home page, and enter the page shown in the figure below.
2. Click the blue icon [Select File] to upload all the original pictures to be cut to the web page.
3. Select the cutting ratio as required, and click the mouse to drag the size and position of the cutting box. After setting, click on other pictures to set the corresponding cropping method.
4. After the cropping methods of all pictures are determined, set the quality and format of the picture output on the right side of the web page, and click [Start] in the lower right corner after confirmation to start processing.
5. After all the pictures are cropped, you can pull down the webpage to preview the cropping effect. You can download it individually or click [Download zip] to save the picture locally.
4. Image Splitter
advantages:
- without installing software, the browser can open the web page of this tool and use it directly without occupying the local memory of the computer.
- Supports cutting the image into multiple parts, and you can set the row and column values after segmentation.
Disadvantages:
- only one picture can be divided at a time. If you want to divide multiple pictures, you need to repeat the operation.
- Online processing sites may not be sufficiently confidential for file privacy and are best used only to process images that are not very private.
Operation steps:
1. Open the webpage where the Image Splitter is located in the browser.
2. Click [Select File] to upload the pictures to be split to this web page.
3. Set the values of the divided rows and columns. If you need to divide into nine squares, fill in 3 rows and 3 columns.
4. Click [Split and Display] to preview the picture clipping effect. After confirming that it is correct, click [Download as ZIP] to save all sub-maps to the local.
5. GridMaker
advantages:
- it supports one-time cutting of pictures into multiple pictures, and you can set the row and column values of cutting by yourself.
- The web browser opens directly without downloading and installing other software.
Disadvantages:
- only one image can be cut at a time. Batch processing of multiple images is not supported.
Operation steps:
1. Open the web page where the GridMaker is located, as shown in the following figure.
2. Click [Custom Mode] and drop down the webpage to see two dotted boxes. Click the dotted box on the left to upload the pictures to be split.
3. After the picture is uploaded to the webpage, continue to pull down the page and adjust the number of rows and columns to be cut. Click [Cut Picture], and the preview effect of the cut picture will appear in the dashed box on the right side of the web page, and the cutting row and column values can be adjusted according to the preview.
4. After the preview is confirmed to be correct, click [Package Download] to save all sub-maps to the local area.
Summary
among the five tools introduced in this article, wps's picture tool, imagestool, is a tool to manually drag and drop the cropping box for cropping. Compared to other tools have no need to install software, wps users do not even have to open other web-side tools advantage. However, the manual use of image editing software cutting is not only cumbersome, but also requires accurate calculation of the segmentation ratio, which easily leads to inaccurate segmentation lines or image imbalance.
First, 4. five tools support precise cutting by setting the number of cuts. The online tools introduced in 4. 5 have the advantage of directly opening the browser to use the web page without taking up local memory, but they do not support splitting multiple pictures at one time. The first tool just makes up for this deficiency and is very suitable for users who need to split images in batches.