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Michael Schmidmeister
Michael Schmidmeister
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October 21, 2017
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P: Change the color or brightness of Grid Lines

  • October 21, 2017
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Hi everyone

 

Since upgrading from Lightroom CC to Lightroom Classic CC a few days ago, in the Developer mode, the color/brightness of the grid lines is medium to dark grey. They are very hard to see now on any photos. Before the upgrade the grid lines were more like white or a very light grey.

 

How can I change the grid line color/brightness to a light grey or white color?

 

Thanks

Michael

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    bullmoon137
    Participating Frequently
    October 30, 2017

    What a pain - we do real estate photos - hundreds a week and having an invisible grid is a giant drag on my workflow.  Why do I update to a new version?  I have no idea - stupid.  What's the point of a subscription to new features if the features get broken?  That fiasco last time with the import dialog was bad enough - ugh!  I should have learned.  I don't think Adobe gets how what they do affects people's business.

    Certainly the behavior is different with the GPU off - for me the lines are more like I'd expect - whiter and easier to see.  What other issues will I see turning off the GPU?  Who knows...I guess I'll find out if they are worse than invisible grid.  Argghhh!

      Michael Schmidmeister
      Michael SchmidmeisterAuthor
      Participant
      October 21, 2017

      Clarification/more details:


      I know how to set the brightness/opacity of the grid lines for the Grid option "always" (holding CTRL pressed to access size and opacity).

      However, when the Grid is set to "Auto", and also in f.e. in the Transform menu or Crop command, the brightness/opacity of the grid lines is still default (on a medium/dark grey) and does not use the opacity value set in the "always" option.

      Is this a bug or how can I change the opacity for the "Auto" option for the Grid etc?

      Bob Somrak
      Bob Somrak
      Legend
      October 21, 2017

      I don't know if it is a bug or not but it definitely a poor design of not being able to change the opacity of the grid in auto.

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        Michael Schmidmeister
        Michael SchmidmeisterAuthor
        Participant
        October 22, 2017

        And a poor design it is considering you can change it in ALWAYS mode


        Agreed. It is a poor design. The opacity setting should also be available in AUTO mode.

        However, I guess I found the solution for my issue - by accident. It seems when upgrading from Lightroom CC to Lightroom Classic CC, the preference "Use graphics processor" for Camera Raw had been activated again (menu Edit - Preferences - Performance).

        I deactivated it and the result: the grid lines are first much clearer, sharper and thinner and probably due to that can be much better seen while doing some cropping or transforming. I would say it looks like before the upgrade.

        Cheers!

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