How to prevent grid from appearing every time a file is opened

[Leif5FDE]

I understand how to turn the grid on and off.  However, recently whenever I open a file, Photoshop is showing the grid.  Since I almost never use the grid (and certainly not as my first task when working with a newly opened file), this is an annoyance.  Can anyone tell me how to change the default behavior so that the grid is hidden?  Forum posts on this seem to be mostly from many years ago.

[jane-e · Accepted solution]

@Leif5FDE 

When you use Cmd+H (View menu > Extras), it hides/show everything that is checked in View menu > Show. To turn off the Grids so they don't keep popping up, go to View menu > Show and uncheck the grids there.

~ Jane

[Leif5FDE]

Great, that fixed it!  Thank you Jane.

So I guess what is going on here is that Extras are shown when you first open the file.  Following your instructions, I have removed the Grid from those default extras.  But is there a way to make Extras hidden by default?  That would seem logical to me, but I didn't see that option anywhere in the Preferences.

[jane-e · Accepted solution]

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@Leif5FDE wrote:

Great, that fixed it!  Thank you Jane.

 But is there a way to make Extras hidden by default? 

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You're welcome, @Leif5FDE !

Not that I know of — not for all Extras. You can go into View > Show and turn off the ones you don't want. Then Cmd+H will hide/show the remaining one or two.

If there were a way to hide all Extras when you opened a file, would these things confuse you?

• Make a selection and not see the marching ants?
• Drag out a guide and not see it?
• Move a layer and not see the Smart guides?

I know these three would confuse new users. Advanced users can uncheck everything they don't want to see — possibly leaving only the selection edges and guides for example. These two will only actually show up when they are used.

Jane

[Leif5FDE]

Aha -- that's a very good point and I understand now why some extras need to be present by default!