I just needed to create a grid and was really surprised at how complicated this is (relatively speaking), it seems like one of those things that you'd expect to be able to create with 1 or 2 clicks.
It's always the simple things that get you. I've been using Photoshop for decades and I whenever I needed a grid I would manually draw out circa five lines or so then copy and paste those until I had more then select those until I was clear across the entire image. Of course, I would merge those and copy/paste that, rotate 90°, copy/paste that, all the while adjusting and tweaking to make sure the spacing, length, and/or line thickness had not gone off-kilter somehow. (More often than not it would.) I can't believe that doing it this way never occurred to me. Thanks man!
For reference pics to do drawings/paintings- I just do a screen capture of the photoshop grid it’s a rough but it gets my basic contours and shadows in. I save the screen capture as a jpg or pdf and can easily print or just use it on my iPad to reference while I work .
It ought to be precise no? You can set the grid size to 1 inch in PS and if you view at actual size it ought to be 1 inch at least. I am also using it for drawing references.
EXACTLY what I was looking for, explained clearly and extremely helpful! Thank you so much for helping me crack the issue I was having with D&D mapping!!!
Thank you so much! I did it without using 'New Grid Layout' But I did change my grid measures to the same units of measure as the square pattern I wanted to create. So, my rulers were in cms, I made my square pattern 1cm x 1cm Took me a while, but I'll never have to make another again. As a copy artist, I am so grateful
Very helpful video! I modified this a bit by changing the width of my rectangles to 2.5px and made a square instead of an L shape so that the grid would be centered instead of on the side of the inch.
This is great, but why this when you can just go to Preferences>Guides, Grids & Slices and input you dimensions for your grid there? I needed a 1/8" grid for a floor plan I was trying to interpret that I had received and it did the job. What am I missing? Serious question, not being difficult, maybe there is something about this method that is different or better?
Thank you...will definitely subscribe. Is there a way I can change the color of Grid, different from Subdivision lines? As of now, they are always the same. Thanks.
This didn't work for me. I tried making a 3.5 x 2 grid (for business cards) and when I apply the newly created pattern to my blank 7 x 10 inch document, the bottom doesn't appear and I only see the vertical line. =(
Hi! It's possible to match the start of the grid from the right-down corner? So that the grid has half squares on the left side of an "off-squared" image instead of the other way around as in the video?
ive tried this, but the gridlines produced get wider and wider the more it reproduced the grid pattern, because the pattern is essentially reproducing the shape saved, and putting one next to the other, so the larger the picture used the more the gridline will be out by surely??
Lol thank you this was actually very helpful!!! Been trying to figure it out, it was kind of a math thing I feel like I should have been able to. Great teaching!
i took a print of the grid and paste on an A4 I just need the grid with white background XD but thanks tho I didn't knew how to make the grid ;) you helped all my rpg party
if you're just doing a reference that your printing out and the quality doesn't matter that much couldn't you just make the first grid you did then screen capture and print that image?
why do my grid lines extend from the photo where as your grid and grid lines always stay just on the photo not the background. and also mines showing two different grids. photoshop is so stressful.
HELP At the New Layer; Pattern Fill step it will not let me choose my custom grid pattern. I type in the name of my pattern but it ignores my request and keeps giving me a factory preset pattern.
Great job on the video. The problem for me is this process should not require between 52-55 steps to create a grid. Adobe created this software for professionals in graphic design, for someone who needs to create a grid maybe once or twice a year this is not realistic. Over the years Adobe has marketed more towards the layman but they have a long ways to go to simplify it for us. Again, your video was insightful, thank you..
You take any golden ratio you want on the net, take care the background is white and the ratios dark enough, use levels if necessary to get a good contrast, save as png rather than jpeg, use these pictures as layers in multiply if the lines are black and screen if they are white, forgive my English as it's not my native language. I hope you understood.
You are right, vectors are better, it's just that those golden ratios are only indicators of composition though... why to make them perfect? Considering the grid, it's different, you may have one absolutely perfect for some jobs, have nice creations!
Click on settings (the little flower button lower right) and select playback speed and set to 0.75.. the then sounds normal and like a chipmunk on speed. Sorry.. great video but waaaay too fast. Remember people are learning and need to take in each step. Thanks.
This is not meant toward you but adobe and ps I hate using ps because I always have to watch some tutorial only to find out that ps moved the buttons to another location for some stupid reason and now i have to go look for it again because the buttons and options are never in the same place as the tutorials 🤦♂😠
learning how to draw from a photo reference usually entails using a grid on both the photo and the paper/thing you are drawing on, this might be a nice tool for printing photos with a grid instead of actually drawing the grid on the photo by hand
I just needed to create a grid and was really surprised at how complicated this is (relatively speaking), it seems like one of those things that you'd expect to be able to create with 1 or 2 clicks.
It's always the simple things that get you. I've been using Photoshop for decades and I whenever I needed a grid I would manually draw out circa five lines or so then copy and paste those until I had more then select those until I was clear across the entire image. Of course, I would merge those and copy/paste that, rotate 90°, copy/paste that, all the while adjusting and tweaking to make sure the spacing, length, and/or line thickness had not gone off-kilter somehow. (More often than not it would.)
I can't believe that doing it this way never occurred to me. Thanks man!
For reference pics to do drawings/paintings- I just do a screen capture of the photoshop grid it’s a rough but it gets my basic contours and shadows in. I save the screen capture as a jpg or pdf and can easily print or just use it on my iPad to reference while I work .
It ought to be precise no? You can set the grid size to 1 inch in PS and if you view at actual size it ought to be 1 inch at least. I am also using it for drawing references.
Been looking for this for ages, comes so handy for D&D map making. Great guide!
This is what I came here for. lol
EXACTLY what I was looking for, explained clearly and extremely helpful! Thank you so much for helping me crack the issue I was having with D&D mapping!!!
A short cut in deference to shortness of life. Show gridlines, take a screenshot. Done.
Thank you so much!
I did it without using 'New Grid Layout'
But I did change my grid measures to the same units of measure as the square pattern I wanted to create.
So, my rulers were in cms, I made my square pattern 1cm x 1cm
Took me a while, but I'll never have to make another again. As a copy artist, I am so grateful
Thank you! I am a mosaic artist and I really love having this grid!
Perfect for turning any image into a battle map for TTRPGs, thanks!
that was exactly what i was searching
Wow. Super clear and helpful step-by-step. Thanks for the tutorial!
Very helpful video! I modified this a bit by changing the width of my rectangles to 2.5px and made a square instead of an L shape so that the grid would be centered instead of on the side of the inch.
invaluable if you are creating TTRPG maps. This was great, thanks!
you're a fookin' legend. I really liked the guide grid but hated that it didn't get printed. This was really helpful, thank you!!!
Thanks so much! This was exactly what I needed.
fantastic and concise instructions thank you
thank you so much, it works
Thank you, this is extremely helpful
you can also use the vanishing point filter, set your grid size and then render to photoshop, do it on a new layer or on original image
Clever fella! Thats the ticket!! Cool TY liked & subscribed
It is one of the Most Useful trick to create predefined tables in Ps,
Thanks Joseph.
Thanks for watching!
this video taught me more command shortcuts i needed! :0
No exactly what I was looking for, but still learned something new. Great vid!
Brilliant, great pace and super clear. Thanks.
This is great, but why this when you can just go to Preferences>Guides, Grids & Slices and input you dimensions for your grid there? I needed a 1/8" grid for a floor plan I was trying to interpret that I had received and it did the job. What am I missing? Serious question, not being difficult, maybe there is something about this method that is different or better?
I can’t get new guide layout :0
You don't need New Guide layout. I just did it without :)
Thank you...will definitely subscribe. Is there a way I can change the color of Grid, different from Subdivision lines? As of now, they are always the same. Thanks.
amazing tut man thanks
Extremely helpful! Thank you!
Really great help, super efficient. Thanks
Great tutorial, you have saved me hours, thanks
Thank you so much
9 min for this. bro you are crazy
Thanks man 😀
Thank you very much. Please show on the Windows too.
Good info, thanks!
thank you so much! this help a lot. :)
You are wonderful.
Worked well for me. Thanks!
Nice video bro, thanks!
What a boss, thanks for this tutorial man!
works great! thank you~!
This didn't work for me. I tried making a 3.5 x 2 grid (for business cards) and when I apply the newly created pattern to my blank 7 x 10 inch document, the bottom doesn't appear and I only see the vertical line. =(
Mine did the same exact thing. I can't figure out what went wrong :/
Hi! It's possible to match the start of the grid from the right-down corner? So that the grid has half squares on the left side of an "off-squared" image instead of the other way around as in the video?
Very clever cat-skinning here, thanks a lot ND!
Perfect! Thank you.
Simple and useful.
Woahh this is so useful!
Nice one mate.
Thx ! Cheers from Germany
perfect !!
thanx buddy!!
Great guide.
ive tried this, but the gridlines produced get wider and wider the more it reproduced the grid pattern, because the pattern is essentially reproducing the shape saved, and putting one next to the other, so the larger the picture used the more the gridline will be out by surely??
Thanks for the help!
Lol thank you this was actually very helpful!!! Been trying to figure it out, it was kind of a math thing I feel like I should have been able to. Great teaching!
completely unrelated. I love your hair
*Hi Nathaniel,is it possible to add my own grid overlay with diagonal lines (non-repetitive pattern)* ?
Dzi€ki, pomogłęś bardzo!
Very good video
What do I need to do to have this grid square saved in Photoshop C6 to use again later?
Helpful.Thanx bro
thank you so much
i managed to do it
Glad you found it useful!
thanks
i took a print of the grid and paste on an A4 I just need the grid with white background XD but thanks tho I didn't knew how to make the grid ;) you helped all my rpg party
Thank you so much!!!!!
if you're just doing a reference that your printing out and the quality doesn't matter that much couldn't you just make the first grid you did then screen capture and print that image?
Please tell me what I am doing wrong. Followed to a T. Trying to put 4 col 2 row on 28 x 20 image landscape, all I end up with is one center line.
Hello... I can't find anywhere in YouTb what to do if you want to print the guides on top of the photo. Can you help?
thanks bro
Awesome 😊
Good lord what a ridiculously drawn out workflow for something so simple.
thank you, sir. sir please make a tutorial, how to make 3d mokupfile in Photoshop.
This is good, but I want to make a grid like this in a portion of the image, not across the whole image. How would you do this?
I actually don't want the grid to print so thanks for showing how to just use it while editing
The way I always do it: view > show > grid, to configure the size and color of the grid: edit > preferences > guides grid & slices.
You saved my life twice, now. Thank you! :) Subscribed, as it won't be the last time, I'm afraid... ;) Cheers and thanks!
Hey there loved the vid this worked for me before but now im using an older version which is photoshop cs ... would this work
?
why do my grid lines extend from the photo where as your grid and grid lines always stay just on the photo not the background. and also mines showing two different grids. photoshop is so stressful.
Why is that the pixels per inch so important and not just the dimensions ?
nice video
what happened at 1:47? it was all a blur afterwards
thank you \m/ :)
Will this method also work for cs6?
HELP At the New Layer; Pattern Fill step it will not let me choose my custom grid pattern. I type in the name of my pattern but it ignores my request and keeps giving me a factory preset pattern.
Great job on the video. The problem for me is this process should not require between 52-55 steps to create a grid. Adobe created this software for professionals in graphic design, for someone who needs to create a grid maybe once or twice a year this is not realistic. Over the years Adobe has marketed more towards the layman but they have a long ways to go to simplify it for us. Again, your video was insightful, thank you..
love ur voice
Nice
is it necessary to crop.
nice!
thnks
Hey, my hue saturation doesn't seem to work with the grid. Can anyone help me
I don't have this new guide new layout!!
Thank you! This just saved my life!!! ♥♥
I need it when I want to create tiles pattern like floor.
is this grid printiable? on photos and does this work with photoshop 2018 version?
Just make the photoshop grid and then take a screen capture with the windows tool. You can create a jpg to print or view easy anywhere
Ok, ok, BUT the question IS: golden ratio and spiral are possible?
You take any golden ratio you want on the net, take care the background is white and the ratios dark enough, use levels if necessary to get a good contrast, save as png rather than jpeg, use these pictures as layers in multiply if the lines are black and screen if they are white, forgive my English as it's not my native language. I hope you understood.
Thanks man, but i think it can be made in vector structure, anyway in the hurry your tip is very functional. thanks! ;)
You are right, vectors are better, it's just that those golden ratios are only indicators of composition though... why to make them perfect? Considering the grid, it's different, you may have one absolutely perfect for some jobs, have nice creations!
Great information. I just wish you slowed down a bit. Way too fast!!
Click on settings (the little flower button lower right) and select playback speed and set to 0.75.. the then sounds normal and like a chipmunk on speed. Sorry.. great video but waaaay too fast. Remember people are learning and need to take in each step. Thanks.
So, anyone know how to make a grid you can skew for perspective?
This is not meant toward you but adobe and ps
I hate using ps because I always have to watch some tutorial only to find out that ps moved the buttons to another location for some stupid reason and now i have to go look for it again because the buttons and options are never in the same place as the tutorials
🤦♂😠
view - new guide layout
why do we need a grid in first place?
learning how to draw from a photo reference usually entails using a grid on both the photo and the paper/thing you are drawing on, this might be a nice tool for printing photos with a grid instead of actually drawing the grid on the photo by hand
It is also useful for those who create mockups in Photoshop, esp. for websites.
for drawing idiot some people are artists you know and use this to aid in drawing
BECAUSE WE ARE ALIGNMENT MANIACS ! LOLz
To get precise proportions when drawing portraits dummy!