Adobe Community: does anyone know how to darken grid lines on crop tool??

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1. gener7,

Aug 28, 2012 11:59 AM in reply to jimo66

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That's because you can only select one pattern at a time. The only time you will see a grid is when you rotate the picture or select grid from the same menu you select golden spiral. The grid seems perfectly visible when I rotate it. The grid auto adjusts,it is not user controlled. It will be dark against a light background and white against a dark background.

Hope that helps.

Gene

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2. jimo66,

Aug 28, 2012 12:05 PM in reply to gener7

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Thanks Gene

mine is really faint.. on the rule of thirds and other cropping it is fine but on golden spiral i can hardly see it on any background.

Jim

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3. gener7,

Aug 28, 2012 12:13 PM in reply to jimo66

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Have you tried the command View > Show Grid?

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4. jimo66,

Aug 28, 2012 12:17 PM in reply to gener7

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I tried that , i just get all the squares

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5. charles badland,

Aug 28, 2012 12:22 PM in reply to gener7

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I've noticed that too. Grids on an angle (Golden Spiral, Triangle, Diagonal) tend to appear lighter than grids on an x and y axis. Sometimes (depending on the image) they cam almost disappear.

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6. gener7,

Aug 28, 2012 12:30 PM in reply to jimo66

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I am checking my CS6, setting the Crop Tool to golden spiral. There is no grid if golden spiral is selected. If I rotate my image,the golden spiral disappears and that's where I see a grid. If I release my mouse button after rotating the grid goes away, and the golden spiral comes back.

In short there is no golden spiral and grid at the same time.

I'm not sure why you see a faint grid,but it should not be there. The golden spiral itself seems somewhat gray,and not black,but that seems normal and can't be changed.

I'll have to give another forum member a chance to look at it.

Gene

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7. charles badland,

Aug 28, 2012 12:35 PM in reply to gener7

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click to see full res how crop overlay actually looks.

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8. gener7,

Aug 28, 2012 12:44 PM in reply to charles badland

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At this point,I would think it's a monitor brightness/contrast adjustment. Perhaps calibrating your monitor might fix it. One of the first settings in monitor calibration is to set your brightness/contrast against a test image.

If you are in Windows. Type "monitor calibration" in the search field once you open the Start menu.

Select "calibrate display color"

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9. jimo66,

Aug 28, 2012 1:00 PM in reply to charles badland

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yes rule of thirds is quite visible, but golden spiral is very faint my is worse i will try to put a copy up

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10. jimo66,

Aug 28, 2012 1:12 PM in reply to charles badland

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here is my shot

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11. jimo66,

Aug 28, 2012 1:37 PM in reply to jimo66

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the golden spiral is so faint you can hardly see it

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12. gener7,

Aug 28, 2012 3:14 PM in reply to jimo66

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I had to break for lunch,but yes I see.

Under Edit > Preferences > Performance (or Ctrl k)

Go to your GPU settings: uncheck "anti-alias guides and paths."

And this is my result.

Before:

After

So see if that improves things.

Gene

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13. jimo66,

Aug 28, 2012 3:17 PM in reply to gener7

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Yes maybe i need a new graficsa card i am on a 2008 mac pro grafics is radeon hd

it shows up on here but the background is darker. thanks again gene

jim

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14. jimo66,

Aug 28, 2012 3:22 PM in reply to gener7

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yes that worked more difined now still a little light on light backgrounds but a lot better tahn it was..

thanks a lot Gene

jim

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15. jimo66,

Aug 28, 2012 3:25 PM in reply to jimo66

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Much better than before . i like it

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16. gener7,

Aug 28, 2012 3:32 PM in reply to jimo66

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I'm glad that did help. I would suggest trying a video driver update. I vaguely recall Adobe was having a problem with the ATi version 12.8 driver and asked users to downgrade to 12.6 I'm going on thin ice here because I know nothing about Mac video drivers.

Glad you got somewhere though. I'm on a Windows 7 x64 system,and I guess the problem wasn't as bad.

Gene

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17. jimo66,

Aug 28, 2012 3:42 PM in reply to gener7

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it is much better i like the mac for photoshop, i got the mac pro tower 4 1tb hard drives i can hot swap them running 32gig memory it is a race horse,, i use

pc with windows 7 for my stock handling, mac does not do charts so well,

well thanks again from beautiful Cloverdale BC canada

jim

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18. gener7,

Aug 28, 2012 3:49 PM in reply to jimo66

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Cloverdale,Hwy 15 on the way to Vancouver. I enjoyed my visit there.

Sure,have a nice day out there from Berkeley,California.

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