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wvmred1
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August 24, 2021
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Grid pattern when Files are opened

  • August 24, 2021
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About 2 months ago I was half asleep doing some rote file resizing and printing and did what I thought was the same rote Keyboard command I'd been doing for the previous couple hours. To my surprise I put a grid pattern(see image) ontop of my just opened file(jpg at the time).  And now ALL(jpg, RAW, PSD, Tiff) my files open with a grid pattern. I can go into "View" and down to "Show Extras"(cmmnd-H) and turn it off. Sometimes I get a small respite from it by checking "None" at the bottom of the "View" drop down or "Reset Workspace". But, it usually returns very shortly.
I've gone thorugh "Preferences" in both PS(22.5)and Bridge(11.1.1.185) and have seen nothing that remotely suggests(to me) "open file with a grid pattern".
So, 1- How do I turn it off?  and less importatly 2 - What half asleep lazy finger keyboard sequence did I hit to turn it on?

27" 2017 iMac, 64gb ram, OS Mojave(10.14.6)

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Correct answer War Unicorn

Forgot to mention: Preferences like that should stick even after a close and restart. If they're not, trashing preferences might be in order. (This resets everything, so be aware you'll have to reset everything back to the way you had it.)

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html

("Reset Photoshop Preferences" is about halfway down the page.)

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molly29805672ai3q
New Participant
May 9, 2023

SO I know the original questin was a few years ago but I just stumbled across this issue and coulnt find the answer. So here is how you fix this issue. Please try the step mentioned below:

Open Photoshop, go to 'View' from the menu bar at top. Then go to 'Show' and uncheck the 'Grid' option.

*I did notice that you do have to have an image opened in photoshop for this to work.

War Unicorn
War UnicornCorrect answer
Community Expert
August 24, 2021

Forgot to mention: Preferences like that should stick even after a close and restart. If they're not, trashing preferences might be in order. (This resets everything, so be aware you'll have to reset everything back to the way you had it.)

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html

("Reset Photoshop Preferences" is about halfway down the page.)

wvmred1
wvmred1Author
New Participant
August 24, 2021

Well shoot. Didn't even think of trashing preferences. After 20+years you'd think I'd know that. I was dreading the worst and doing the uninstall and reinstall twostep. 
And thank you for the Keyboard command I'll see if that does it first. 

War Unicorn
War Unicorn
Community Expert
August 24, 2021

Cmd/Ctrl + ' is the shortcut to toggle the grid.

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