Photoshop Tutorial: Quickly Export Layers into Images

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In today's Photoshop tutorial, I show you how to quickly export your layers into images. Photoshop offers this functionality out of the box and allows you to save layers as pngs, jpegs, pdfs, psds, and more.

[@johnwheeler8158]

Have been pounding my head on my keyboard for a week trying to figure this out on how to separate 2k images from one psd file. Best tutorial every on the subject. Thank you!

[@dush88gs]

Short and sweet. It has all the information you need in less than 2 minutes. Thanks man.

[@alishawallo5670]

That little bit about "older versions have this under scripts" was exactly what I was trying to figure out. Thanks! Using this to make a 2d rig in Blender.

[@PhoMyLife]

After all these years. Best tutorial out there.

[@PoilQC]

Exactly what I needed. Super fast no BS thats how a good tutorial should be thanks a lot! :)

[@mahmoudhussein4064]

THIS TUTORIAL SAVED MY LIFE AND IT WAS MADE SO WELL THANKYOU SO MUCH

[@TyranVz]

THANK YOU!!! Been trying to find scripts to do this. YOU ROCK

[@schoolboyproductions9940]

thanks man! super helpful and to the point.

[@sedecoste]

Thank you! Very clear tutorial!!

[@Slava-Motovilov-Racing]

Thank you so much for this video!

[@SPLMixing]

Thank you so much, you're awesome!

[@FollowYourHeart08]

Brilliant, thank you!

[@MedMindful]

thank you , that's relay helpful

[@heythere9371]

I want to save the entire layer, including the part that's been cut out of the frame. How do I do that?
I used to do it all the time but I haven't used Photoshop in forever and I forgot how I used to do it

[@kjtheboy9371]

this helped me a lot!! bravo!!

[@CaptainYokkiller]

huge time saver thank you.

[@waltdee1258]

I like how you just cut to the tutorial and didn't waste time with self-promotion. Good job!

[@Gabe-xf5zi]

You saved my night, thank you!

[@kjtheboy9371]

great tutorial! well done!

[@danielstower]

this is gold, thanks gurú

[@ojbaybemuzik8672]

Awesome information to this day...!!!!! Thanks...

[@NYCTimescape]

Exactly what I needed thank you!

[@iseetrees7830]

how i do this in gimp2 ?

[@tinlizziestudios4344]

OMG you saved me soo much time. Thank you!

[@theworldaccordingtorockett]

Perfect. Thanx.

[@utlaw-bk3wz]

THANK YOU. quick and to the point. +subbed.

[@stratamedia814]

I was doing this manually, with keyboard shortcuts lol, I had a file with 90 images as layers that I basically just adjusted the crop, started saving them and by muscle memory I closed the whole document without saving instead of deleting the layer. Thanks for the time save for round 2 and the future!

[@zeeshankhan-ms9bz]

Super Helpful! Thanks

[@Vir7uaLGameplays]

Best ps tutorial ever and that's not an opinion. It's a fact. Well done my guy!

[@seansiegler]

Thanks! Simple task but I couldn't find it!

[@vrm_ravi]

thank you so much.

[@bommaritohawaii]

how to export each layer onto a background color??

[@beatrice9311]

Thank you! Is there any way to keep the effects applied with this method? When I don't merge effects to the layers, this method exports the images as they are in the layers; but when I merge the effects, I lose the color and vibrance that I wanted. Is there a way?

[@g.p.hrabacsyk4060]

Thanks man!

[@a9a9a9k]

thanks for you very useful

[@roxanahuete5675]

Easiest tutorial ever! Thank you. I finally did something right, hehe.

[@JuXuS1]

"Visible Only" checkbox tells me you don't have to get rid of unwanted layers. Right?

[@febritriyanto4598]

very usefull.. thanks

[@simonesandri88]

Tnks! Very Useful!

[@Xlr8er99]

You have saved me SO MUCH TIME! Ty sir :)

[@Harnee_s]

thank you!

[@victorjoseph3852]

Thank you 🙏🏾 ❤

[@topspeedfinder]

Thank you!

[@arnob9986]

Thanks a lot

[@kanal2123a]

I need help, with this way it takes a lot of time to export 600 layers, any other way?

[@Riley_Christian]

How do I inverse the order?

[@khizarammar2806]

Thanks a lot brother

[@bahloulihossam-eddine2902]

thank you

[@LelinaOphelia]

Is there a way to do this while getting rid of prefix names? I just want my files to be named 0 to 50. No extra name extension, nothing. Just 0, 1, 2, 3, etc. for texturing purposes.

[@ayushisharma8657]

thanks a lot it was helpfull

[@ooquis]

To the point....thanks bru!

[@alexq.o8576]

You saved my day bro!

[@UddhikaIshara]

Thanks man you saved my day

[@nickteoh5089]

Thank you, sir.

[@aravindselvaraj537]

IF I MASKED ALL LAYERs IN ONE SHAPE of an clip mask means what wil i do

[@FERMUSICA]

Thank youuuuu!!!!

[@goblinodds]

thank you for saving my ENTIRE LIFE

[@OctoberPepper]

Thank you so much, you saved me a lot of time.

[@irfansyauki5357]

thank you for saying what I want to say, you saved me a lot of time.

[@PhoMyLife]

@@irfansyauki5357 hilarious

[@JohnSmith-es2fh]

no layer compos to file
help

[@Lumencraft-]

For some reason when I do this "Export" is light grey and will not work or do anything. Do you know why this might be?

[@JordanProtsko]

Does the files go into the folder when it’s exporting or when it’s done? Trying to do 1000 layers

[@rylvestersolon4854]

thanks

[@sjcobra84]

Hard working people like you prevent world wars.

[@YungVoice]

you are a blessing

[@papa_-_chipmunk1311]

Very helpful 👍👍☺️

[@user-wt1tr5sw8q]

Thx

[@mrshino632]

Thank you tooooo much.

[@snyyx]

Does it keep the image ratio ? Or does it crop it like the quick export to png option ?

[@hipeGALAXY]

saving this way works, but my files are way too big. even if i take down the image quality. I usually export files using export > save for web...
is there a way to do bulk export layers for that?

[@simonperezmp3]

how would i do this if i have a clipping mask for a group of layers?

[@rameshbabu8585]

Nice

[@Joeblax88]

Thank you thank you thank you

[@fatematuszohuratanny508]

Wow! Pretty simple techniques! Nothing can beat photoshop, but you know I found one software that can do even better. With autoRetouch, you can Export Layers faster than ever!

[@mikekypriotis3862]

so how u woudl do it with an action?

[@raifboluk4709]

thnx

[@SandeepSingh-dn8yj]

I followed the same steps. the process started. but i just got the blank images. some files came, but those were the png. image that ofcourse changed into JPG format.
Please tell me how to get PNG and JPG images differently from a Homepage PSD format.
I

[@Pluzas]

export all as png ez

[@rybfish76]

Great tutorial!

[@RCGTutorials]

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

[@jchemas]

Great tutorial. Thanks.
I have a question, If I have 61 layes. And I want the first layer (logo) to be merge in all the 60 layers below, so the logo is in every layer. How can I do it instead of exporting each file.

[@rubailfilms1746]

same question have been roaming around my mind

[@MerkurioBua]

well before you export the layers you need the logo layer to be duplicated into 60 other layers and then simply merged with each separate layers and then export them

[@moranberenstein1223]

I have the exact same question... need to save all the layers with the same logo layer on top

[@yyg4632]

@@MerkurioBua yea

[@dlrss1v274]

sorry if i'm 2 years late but i've found a script for PS that allows you to export layers with top layer as foreground

[@TradingFeline]

Is there a way to change the naming of the files? I don't wanna keep seeing all the zeroes.

[@dummyconvert5503]

nice

[@kacperkepinski4990]

i have some mistake that i have no rightsm that file is blocked any suggestions?

[@iseetrees7830]

how do i do this in Gimp 2? please thanks ?

[@mattystraw3378]

How could i go about doing the reverse of this...
I've got 20 images i need layered together at random

[@robertsyer]

LIFE SAVER!!!

[@sauldorantes4738]

Nice :)

[@dreammusic5449]

Oh my god Thanks Lot

[@dearlawyer958]

I have gone through this way but in my case, after exporting all the layers in adobe photoshop it will reduce the dimensions of the pictures. How can I solve this problem is there any way to get out of this shit?

[@ahmedshaffek6082]

how to keep images the same orginal name

[@anosjc]

For some reason my photoshop is not showing layers to files option......

[@Auxetic-]

SO HELPFUL, because when I edit 100+ photos for clients... things get a bit intense 😭

[@eugeniawong249]

i applied an effect to all layers (b&w) but when I batch export the layers the effect is not there, what should I do?

[@danliving1]

I would also like to know this

[@marcmarc1967]

I would also like to know this.

[@nftllix]

Bad.. what if there is a curves effect on top? It's being discarded and saved as a layer

[@AzaiKang]

For some reason there is no option for PNG file type.

[@mattbaldwin1150]

I don't care if I'm 6 years late with this comment, but thanks dude! Legendary effort.

[@najib5911]

it doesnt want to it says windows does not have a constructor

[@GIRLANDLAKAIFORLIFE]

it's removing the adjustment layers and not applying them to the images

[@cLeinxCleO]

mine is old and couldn't save :(

[@oscarsalgado433]

dont do this with multiple artboards with lots of layers in each, took a little while thought it would break my comp - I even selected the one artboard and it said nope, all or nothing.

[@sumtingwong5451]

You are the person who speaks faster when explaining

[@ackinsite]

Mine keeps resizing after the export, any solution 😭

[@Nevarent]

Thank you for telling me it's under Script for older generations.