# Photoshop 7 grid
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-7-grid/34665
**Category:** design
**Created:** [November 5, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-7-grid/34665 "2003-11-05T00:26:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@snaxs](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/snaxs)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-7-grid/34665/1 "2003-11-05T00:26:20Z")
hey guys i want to make a square or any shape grid…
but i don’t want the grid in my hole pic just in a little square but i want it to fade out… in photoshop 7.
thanks.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2003, 1:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-7-grid/34665/2 "2003-11-05T01:24:09Z")
use a marquee with a feather value applied
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2003, 1:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-7-grid/34665/3 "2003-11-05T01:31:25Z")
well first off, you will have to create your “grid”
- Open up PS, create a new document (ctrl+N) set your image dimensions to something like 5x5 pixels (it all depends on the size of the grid you want)
- Create one half of the box (eg: the right-vertical line and the lower-horizontal line)
- goto Edit\>Define pattern
now switch to the document where you want to apply this grid. (i recommend creating a new layer for the grid)
- make a selection of the area you want filled with the grid either with selection tools (magic wand, marquee, lasso) or by ctrl+clicking on a layer
- select your paint bucket tool (G, shift+G)
- in your options toolbar, select your fill as pattern, then choose the pattern you just created and click once in the selected are and voila!
It actually tiles that “half-completed” grid you created initially all over the canvas. PS is pretty neat huh? 🙂
**EDIT**
To make the grid fade, select the layer that contains the gradient and apply a layer mask (via the mini icons at the bottom of the layer palette) and use the gradient tool for the fade mask.
Black HIDES a portion while white UNHIDES. so if you have a gradient going from black to white as a mask, your image WILL have a faded look
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2003, 9:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-7-grid/34665/4 "2003-11-06T21:31:29Z")
i dont know what type of grid you want but this is how i make grids
Open a 400 x 400 pixel
Press D (Makes default colors Black / White)
Press X (Flips default colors)
Filter \>\> Texture \>\> Patchwork
Set Square Size to Max or what ever
Relief to Lowest
and then it should be a grid… to apply it behind an image… put the grid layer as the last one and set the image one with an opacity of like 70
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-7-grid/34665/5 "2003-11-06T22:40:00Z")
Grr get off my name 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2003, 11:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-7-grid/34665/6 "2003-11-06T23:24:58Z")
:sigh: _sigh_ Fill patterns. [http://www.kirupa.com/photoshop/fillpatterns.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/photoshop/fillpatterns.htm)