Dividing images in illustrator

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The simplest raster splitting technique is using pine tools.

Previously:

Design help!

Some simple image transformation tools are available in Pine Tools. If you don’t have time to fool with gimp, inkscape, etc and have really simple needs (like a color invert) this can get you out of a jam.

Much more previously:

Easy way to split an image into equal pieces

So, I’m in process of making a set of coasters as a gift. I found an outrageously high resolution star chart from 1821, and cropped it down to isolate Canis Major (My sister loves her dogs), and wanted to get 6 coaster-ready squares from it. Enter Pine Tools. Saved me a bunch of headache: http://pinetools.com/split-image I cropped the image to be 2:3 aspect ratio first, then sent it to pine tools to be split up to tiles. First, here’s a lower-res version of the main image: [canis_maincrop…