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Grid when rotating images with Crop Tool is not re-sizable

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
November 10, 2019
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When rotating an image with the Crop tool, by clicking outside a corner and dragging a grid appears which is useful for making sure that the horizon is level etc.

The size of this grid used to be able to be set via Edit->Preferences->Grids, Guides and Slices and by changing the 'Gridline Every....' and the 'Subdivisions....' Options

It now seems that the grid that appears when clicking outside the corner of the cropping area while cropping is not affected by these settings. These settings only seem to affect the grid that is invoked using View->Show Grid.

Is this a bug or is there some other way to specify the grid size/spacing when rotating with the crop tool?

System Info
Adobe Photoshop Version: 21.0.0 20191018.r.37 2019/10/18: 614690fb487 x64
Number of Launches: 56
Operating System: Windows 10 64-bit
Version: 10 or greater 10.0.18362.329
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:14, Stepping:9 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, HyperThreading
Physical processor count: 2
Logical processor count: 4
Processor speed: 2712 MHz
Built-in memory: 8060 MB
Free memory: 4415 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 7358 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 60 %
ACP.local Status:
- SDK Version: 1.22.4
- Core Sync Status: Reachable and compatible
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John5e90

Participant

Greetings, any update on a solution? I have exactly the same problem, and disabling the "use graphics processor" simply does not work. I had had this problem before, and had managed somehow to get rid of it, but after an update, it's back... Would very much appreciate any insights, thanks!

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defaultl3ia04rlnbnr

Participant

ok..this may or may not help someone - but I had the same frustrating problem with the 'tiny' grid when I was rotating an image, as I was cropping it!

Checked my 'Preferences/Performance' and my 'use graphics processor' was not actually ticked or selected. I selected it so it now appears 'ticked'.

Then I completely shutdown photoshop. On reopening photoshop, my tiny grid had changed to a bigger and far better grid when I went to rotate the image I was trying to crop. Hope this helps someone else.

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Rick_Lynch1944

Participant

This solution worked for me. I had the same frustrating tiny grid problem. Now I don't. All it took in my case was to restart photoshop.

davescm

Community Expert

Hi

I've never seen a control that alters the crop tool grid, in any version. I've just opened a few older versions and checked.

The grid referred to in Guides, Grids and Slices is a different grid.

The coloured artifacts and fine grid in your screenshots may indicate a GPU issue. Try turning off Use Graphics Processor temporarily , restarting and see if you see the same fine grid.

Dave

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brianp49895668Author

Inspiring

Its not a GPU issue - just that the grid is so tightly spaced.
I've tried just about everyting including re-starting, and the same very fine grid is there.

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arir22308823

Participant

I had that same problem recently. No action helped until I tried reinstalling the graphics card driver. And the problem went away with it. Now that grid is back to normal.

lambiloon

Community Expert

Hi please share a screenshot of your problem its working fine for us....Regards

Ali Sajjad / Graphic Design Trainer / Freelancer / Adobe Certified Professional

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brianp49895668Author

Inspiring

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sue photo

Participant

Hello,

I find this small mesh grill too small ( as shown in the photo above) when trying to align my photos.

I have Windows 10..and PhotoShop 2020. It has not always been this way

Sue

gener7

Community Expert

I've looked at this and as far as I know the Crop Tool grid is fixed no matter the zoom level or image size. It is not the same as the normal grid and does not use the Guides and Grids preferences. I've checked both CC 2018 and CC 2020, so it must be a much older version if that ever was the case.

This is the Crop Tool Grid you see when you do a rotation. The "Rule of Thirds" is normally the default.

Now select "Grid" from the drop down menu and you'll see it stays the same when you do a rotation. It is fixed no matter the zoom level or image size. There is no adjustment. This is normal and not related to View > Show > Grid.

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brianp49895668Author

Inspiring

Nothing to do with the Overlay - its the grid that appears when the clicking outside the corner and dragging to rotate. In all prior versions it could be resized.

gener7

Community Expert

On the contrary, I'm sure that's the same grid it switches to for rotations. If there is an adjustment for it. I have not seen it, but I'll wait.

I'd reset the crop tool if I saw the fine grid you have.

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