LACIMA NineSlicer — 9-Slice Scaling for Photoshop

Stop redrawing panels at every size.

If you design game UI, you know the pain: every button, panel and frame needs to exist at ten different sizes, and naive scaling smears your corners and borders. Game engines solved this decades ago with 9-slice scaling. Photoshop never did.

Also known as: 9-patch / nine-patch, 9-slicing, sprite borders, scale-9 — whatever your engine calls it (Unity, Unreal, Godot, GameMaker), you can now prepare those sprites right where you draw them.

LACIMA NineSlicer brings true 9-slice scaling inside Photoshop.

1. Slice — select your sprite layer, drop 2 vertical + 2 horizontal guides on the edges of the fixed zones, hit Confirm slicing. Done: your sprite is 9-sliced. The original layer is kept untouched (hidden) as the source of truth.
2. Resize with the tool you already use — press Ctrl+T, stretch the layer to any size, hit Enter. On commit, NineSlicer instantly rebuilds it as a proper 9-slice from the original: corners fixed, edges stretched on one axis only, center filled. No new tools to learn.
3. Repeat forever — every resize regenerates from the original pixels. Scale up, down, wide, tall, a hundred times: zero quality loss, corners always crisp.

Features

• True Unity-style 9-slice scaling, fully inside Photoshop
• Non-destructive: original sprite preserved, one-click Reset slicing
• Works with the native Free Transform (Ctrl+T) workflow
• Single undo step per operation
• Panel localized in 10 languages
• Offline license — no account, no server, no data ever leaves your machine

Requirements

• Adobe Photoshop 2023 (v24.0) or later — built on Adobe's modern UXP platform
• Tested on Photoshop 2026 (Windows). macOS: UXP is cross-platform and the plugin has no OS-specific code, but it hasn't been tested on a Mac yet — if it doesn't work for you, full refund within 14 days.

What you get

• LACIMA_NineSlicer.ccx plugin (double-click to install via Creative Cloud)
• Your personal license key, delivered by email within 24h of purchase
• All 1.x updates included

Launch price — this is the first, lean version of a tool in active development: the price will grow as features land (tile mode, batch export, presets…), but buy now and every 1.x update is yours at no extra cost.

Made by a working game audio/UI designer, for game UI work. Support: lacima.tools@gmail.com