Disable extras on startup

[Kc1106]

I'm using PS CS3. I don't remember changing any settings, but all of a sudden when I open any Photoshop file, the "extras" (gridlines) are showing. I can hit the keyboard shortcut to turn it off, but I have to do that each time I open a file...which is pretty annoying. I looked through my preferences and can't seem to find anything that would cause this to happen. Any ideas on how I can make the extras stop showing on startup?

[John_Joslin]

Save a file after you turn it off and they should stay off for next time!

[Kc1106]

Nope, that doesn't work. I've been opening a file, turning it off, working on and saving the file. When I reopen anything at all in Photoshop, that setting is always on.

[Guest]

The same prob. I have in my CS5, but I solved that. Go to Vew - Show - And disable all grids and so on. Next time u wont see them. Just everytime I open any image, extras is still marked in View tab..

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Have you tried trashing your prefs yet (after making sure all customized presets like Actions, Patterns, Brushes etc. have been saved and making a note of the Preferences You’ve changed)?

Other than that a fairly convoluted workaround could be to Insert the Menu Item Grid in an Action and link that to Open Document in Script Events Manager, thus toggling grid visibility on any open.

[recruitmom]

I searched around and found up on the menu bar in cs4 is the icon for view extras. I unchecked the show grids and that is what turned it off for me.  The icon looks like the corner of the window when the rulers are showing and is to the right of the BR (launch Bridge - which I love) button. Hope it helps the next person. I turned the grid on a couple of days ago. Flighty artist.

[qumi · Accepted solution]

I realize this thread is old but I came across it because I was having the same problem in PS CS3 (which doesn't seem to have the CS4 icon referred to in the previous reply).

Unchecking 'View > Extras' also had not worked for me.  The grid would still re-appear when subsequently opening an image.

In my case, what seemed to be forcing the grid to show up on every image load was that the 'View > Show > Grid' option was checked.  Unchecking it resolved the problem for me.

So, recapping, to avoid the grid showing up when loading an image:

View > Show > (uncheck) Grid

I haven't checked but I'm guessing the same behaviour would apply to other 'Extras' set to show in the View > Show command while the Extras command is checked.

[jeanette123]

This worked!

Thank you

[mattdetroit]

Unchecking "Show Grid" worked for me. See above for instructions.

[typesettingindia]

life saving help! 🙂

[chriss69202869]

Thank you!

[janzky]

Worked great. Thanks so much.

[LaurenceMillerIV]

Direction: 

View > Show > (uncheck) Grid

This will work if other solutions have not. Thanks to all the community for solving this.

[dressagewiz]

I have the exaqct same problem. When I open a file, the grid shows up automatically ALL the time. I can turn it off with CNTRL-H but that's really annoying when I'm working with a large number of images. The solution above doesn't work. I uncheck, open a new file and the grid shows up again. HELP!

[Kelly5C2A]

I know this is an old post, but if anyone is still having this issue here is a workaround;  Go to Photoshop Preferences. Select Guides, Grids & Slices. Halfway down that window find Gridline Every and enter a huge number -- I put 30 inches between gridlines, and next to it I enter 2 Subdivisions. I don't work on images arge enough for such widely spaced  Gridlines to ever be seen, so it is as if I have turned it off permanently. (If you do work on very large images, enter an even higher number).  Recap: Photoshop Preferences > Guides, Grids & Slices > Gridline Every [enter a large number of 9nches] and Subdivision [enter 2].  Hope this works for you too!

[Contemporary]

Same here. Uncheck it, save file (usually multiple times as I'm working), and grid will still appear on next image. Haven't been able to resolve issue. Ugh.

[Contemporary]

Okay, so I tried this, and seems to have corrected this problem: View > Show > None. 

[D Fosse]

If you open the sub-menu, you can uncheck each individual item. That will stick.

[Dandelion222]

This is the solution that worked for me too. I tried unchecking every individual box in the extras settings. Seemed logical given that Command H (Extras) is what seems to turn it on and off for the individual images. But when I chose View > Show > None the lines went away and were still gone when I opened a new image. Yay! 

[pballasiotes]

One more thing it could be: select the Move tool, at the top tool options uncheck "Show Transform Controls".

[juliem61287]

Thank you this is what worked for me!! 

[Сергій Марищук]

tnx

[Antonia25]

It could be that it is not the extras but it is 'automatic select'. Click on the select tool and above it on the bar uncheck 'auto select' box and to the right of that 'show transform control' box. Be well!!

[Sally Wagner]

Thank you! This was driving me nuts.