Photoshop Help | Generate image assets from layers | Photoshop CC

This question was posted in response to the following article: http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/generate-assets-layers.html

Adding a margin feature would be awesome.
eg: logo.jpg+10px
The end result would be the image with 10px of extra white-space on each side.
More awesome would be "logo.jpg+10px5px10px5px"
So you could define the extra space for each side following the css standard, top right bottom left.
This could come in handy if you want to generate buttons for let's say an iOS app. Imagine you have a tiny help button that is 20x20px, if you import this the standard hit state will be small (the 20x20), but if you add an extra whitespace margin the hitstate will be much bigger than the icon itself, making it more user friendly to tap on the button.
Please consider this feature. Thanks!

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