P: Grid Behavior Changed in 23.1

[Skwirlijvieux]

In all PS versions 23.0.2 and earlier setting Grid to 33.34 Percent with Subdivisions = 1 created a nine-section, tic-tac-toe-style grid which divided both horizontal and vertical axes into three equal sections, providing nine working sections, each having a ratio equal to that of the canvas.

In PS 23.1 setting Grid to 33.34 Percent with Subdivisions = 1 creates canvas full of squares, each of which has all sides set to (essentially) one third of the horizontal value of the canvas only, regardless of vertical value.  There appears to be no setting available to force behavior to divide vertical values by any percentage.

If this change was purposeful, it has deprecated one of my most important tools for composition.  If it wasn't, please arrange to align this setting with results obtained from previous versions.

PS 23.1 uninstalled; reverting to 23.0.2 pending correction or confirmation of intent to change.

[jimgreid]

I have the exact issue. I have done exactly as you've said but get a 3 by 2 grid in landscape mode as below

[RasterizedMind]

PS update today, and this issue has still not been resolved; very disappointing. 

[russd62755216]

How [cursing removed] has this not been fixed yet?  I too am quite frustrated by my "percentage" grid only being a percentage of the x axis, and not the y axis. 

[focused_Glimmer5C85]

I'm having the exact same issue. 23.1. This feature is critically important to my work (architecture phogoraphy), I've never had an issue in 10 years. Has anyone found a solution?

[RasterizedMind]

@focused_Glimmer5C85 still nothing. I don't know how many people need to complain before this gets resolved, but maybe if we keep this thread alive something will actually happen?

[lennardg]

Using PS for scanned comics pages, the  "fifty percent grid trick" is essential for my work...have now downgraded to v. 23.0.2...hope something is done soon.

[Photo North]

I have the same propblem and have been battling to fix it for ages!!

[alexcomeauphoto]

Has Engineering investigated this yet?  Mine is doing the same thing as the Author.  I used to divide into a gridline every 33.33% to place a "rule of thirds" guide on my canvas.  This works horizontally but not vertically.  This makes this feature useless to me.

[Trevor.Dennis]

If you have this issue, can you tell us what operating system you are using so it can be tied down?  Thanks

[Photo North]

Hi

I am using Windows 10. Have not got the option to upgrade. The rule of thirds grid issue only occurred a few days ago. Many thanks


Joan

Joan Martin

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[wouterrietberg]

Same issue here, Photoshop 23.1 on Windows 10. 

This bug/feature makes the grid completely useless for anything else than squares.

[wouterrietberg]

Just installed update 23.1.1, no change in grid behaviour:

[RasterizedMind]

I also just installed 23.1.1, and no change to grid behavior. 

[o la love]

It seems that somewhere around the last patch this thing broke. If I open a new document it works okay, but with any of my older ones (even a day older than this patch) it does this, where it works only horizontally but the vertical subdivision is breaks for some reason (attached screenshot).

My setting is Gridline every 100% with 6 subdivisions as this splits whatever I'm doing into two halves along the horizontal and vertical and also it gives me three thirds as well. Without that it just becomes a nightmare to put some of things I do together. 

Thank you!

[John Waller]

Which Adobe app are you using?

[o la love]

Photoshop

[John Waller]

Moved from Using the Community forum to Photoshop forum.

[Aaron227534471brv]

Cant believe this wasnt fixed in the update

[Erin26]

The fix for this is now in the beta build that was released today.  If you have an opportunity, please try it out. Thank you.

[Skwirlijvieux]

Sorry - can't afford to mess with beta builds - particularly when the latest wide release was buggy.  Do we have a proper rollout date yet? 

[T1899n]

I'm having the same issue (Windows 10 Pro, version 21H1).

[D Fosse]

As I always understood it, the grid is always equal spacing (square). That's what a grid is. There's no rule of thirds setting in grid preferences, because it doesn't apply. The closest thing is Derek's workaround.

With the crop tool, however, you can set a true rule of thirds overlay. And that works as expected, dividing each side independently.

Am I missing something here?

[nick howard]

Can we please have a response to this problem that doesn't involve betas. The grid is an important tool in the workflow and to have had it malfuncioning for this long shows a disregard for your customer base.

[curious_detail0D4E]

Really pathetic that Adobe havent fixed this. I'll be on the older version til this is fixed. 

[D Fosse]

Ah, now I see what I was missing: I've always used the grid with fixed measurements, not percent. Set to percent, the grid should be independent to each side and so produce rectangular (not square) tiles.

Disregard what I said above, my mistake.