grids

Hi, thanks for the comparison image - it helps a lot. In your image, your grid is made of thin lines, while the example grid is made of dots whose size and density change across the image, which is why it reads as a shadow/glow rather than a flat line grid. A Layer Style on a line grid won't turn it into that dot effect, so the difference is in how the grid itself is built, not in a Layer Style setting.

Could you share how you built your grid (for example, lines drawn with the Line tool, a pattern fill, or the Grid in View > Show > Grid), and where the example work comes from? With that I can point you to the right way to build a dot grid like the example, rather than guessing at its technique.