How to Overlay a Grid Over a Picture

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Viewing a grid over a picture helps show spacing.

Photo editing software gives users impressive capabilities to manipulate, polish, and finalize their digital pictures. Laying a grid over a picture can help give a user a structured view of the picture and match up elements to a guideline that gives specific measured markings over the picture.

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Step 1

Load the picture into Adobe Photoshop, the industry standard for editing photos.

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Step 2

Click "File>Preferences>Guides and Grids."

Step 3

Set the markings for the grid in the "gridline even" field and choose how frequently the grid lines will appear.

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Step 4

Press "OK" to view the grid over the picture.

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