Four parts, three possible layouts
Four is the first number of parts with a genuine choice. It can be a two-by-two grid, four tall strips or four wide bands, and those produce very different files from the same picture. A 3:2 landscape cut into quadrants gives four 3:2 pictures; cut into four strips it gives pieces three-eighths as wide as they are tall. Neither is wrong — they answer different jobs — so the board asks first instead of assuming.
It opens on quadrants, because for most photographs the quadrant is the closest of the three to a normal picture shape, and the solver marks it as the best fit when it is. The strip options sit beside it as chips. Whatever you choose, the cut lines are drawn on the picture from the same plan the export uses, so the preview is the files.
A worked example
1601 × 1201 → 4 files · columns 801 + 800 = 1601 px · rows 601 + 600 = 1201 px
| File | Cell | From x, y | Pixels |
|---|---|---|---|
| garden-r1c1.png | row 1 · col 1 | 0, 0 | 801 × 601 |
| garden-r1c2.png | row 1 · col 2 | 801, 0 | 800 × 601 |
| garden-r2c1.png | row 2 · col 1 | 0, 601 | 801 × 600 |
| garden-r2c2.png | row 2 · col 2 | 801, 601 | 800 × 600 |
Quadrants for print, strips for screens
Quadrants are what people usually mean when they want a large print from four smaller ones, or four pictures for a two-by-two frame. If the pieces are going to paper, the Print rail is the better start: it works in millimetres, keeps a margin the printer can reach, overlaps the sheets so they can be taped, and prints the DPI you will actually get.
Strips are for screens and sequences: a webtoon-style tall image in four pages, a panorama posted as four swipes, a long receipt or chat screenshot that will not fit one view. For a swipeable post specifically, the carousel splitter fixes each slide’s shape so the platform does not crop the seams.
Four pieces of a picture hold exactly the pixels of the picture. Each quadrant of a 12 MP photo is 3 MP, and printing it at the size the whole photo would have been printed halves its sharpness.
How to do it here
- Open the picture. Drop it on the board, browse, or paste it.
- Choose quadrants or strips. Press 2 × 2, 4 side by side or 4 stacked under Split into equal parts.
- Read the sizes. The inspector prints every column width and row height; the Slices tab names each file.
- Cut. Press Cut into 4 files to write the ZIP.
