# Is there an easy way to get an image from a section of an image?

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**Created:** [May 15, 2022, 8:37pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/is-there-an-easy-way-to-get-an-image-from-a-section-of-an-image/36902 "2022-05-15T20:37:50Z")\
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Hi

Is this what you want??

> [@Possible at all? Create path on image, generate cutting boxes, separate each box](https://discourse.processing.org/t/possible-at-all-create-path-on-image-generate-cutting-boxes-separate-each-box/13756):
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> Dear all, just getting started with processing and wondering if this is possible within processing? I haven’t succeeded doing this in photoshop. I need to dissolve an image into smaller party while each part should be an individual layer (or entity) as I must re-arrange those smaller entities later. So the idea is to draw a path onto an image. Then have cutting boxes follow the path and finally store each cutting box into a new layer/entity. Anyone ideas how to solve this? with processing? …

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