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Design With Grids

 

Corey shows a great way to incorporate grids into your designs.

Corey Barker

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

20 Comments

  1. DENNYS HESS said on — March 28, 2008 @ 3:43 pm

    Hi, Can you help me i can’t find the key (swiss keyboard) for the repeat function in Illustrator. Is it possible to get the function via menu ?

    Thx,

  2. René said on — March 28, 2008 @ 6:35 pm

    Hi, I am using a German keyboard and watching the tutorial I asked myself the same question. Afterwards I just tried various keys and found out that it is the less-than sign left from the “y”.

  3. Eddie said on — March 29, 2008 @ 5:38 pm

    Hmm the less-than sign doesn’t work for me… using also a german keyboard and illustrator cs3 :-/

  4. René said on — March 30, 2008 @ 2:01 pm

    Hi, Eddie.

    I’m working with the German version of AI CS3. Maybe that’s the reason. Just tried it again and it still works. Hmmm

  5. tarn said on — April 1, 2008 @ 6:48 am

    Hey corey

    When i past the grids into PS and colour it i get just a large image with the selected colour and not the grids with the coloured line likes yours, have any idea why?

    Any help would be great, really want to try this out.

    cheers

  6. Jt said on — April 2, 2008 @ 5:38 am

    Great! Thanks very much!

  7. René said on — April 2, 2008 @ 6:48 am

    Hi Tarn,

    before applying the colour you have to lock the transparency. outmost left icon directly above your top layer.

    All the best,
    Rene

  8. Gonzalo said on — April 8, 2008 @ 10:24 am

    hi there how can i make the grid in illustrator using a pc? which is the right key to do that thanks, and im using illustrator 10 can i do that?

  9. s13ge said on — April 10, 2008 @ 3:36 pm

    hey, i was working on a recent project and i wanted to know if this is possible on CS2, as i still havn’t gotten CS3 yet.. thanks.

  10. Agyesh said on — April 13, 2008 @ 2:06 am

    the new website looks suh weeet… so much easier to browse through the videos too… yipeee…

  11. Maya said on — April 13, 2008 @ 6:42 am

    The repeat-key on a german keyboard (german CS3-version) is ‘ö’, wich is a german-special-character. It’s an o with two dots.

    regards,

    maya

  12. Jitesh said on — April 13, 2008 @ 7:05 am

    hi, this does’nt seem to be working for me beacause i don’t understand how you drag the shape along to make the grid…i am using a english version of illustrator cs3

  13. Stijn said on — April 14, 2008 @ 8:01 am

    what is the repeat key on a dutch keyboard?
    can someone please tell me that?

  14. Sanne said on — April 17, 2008 @ 4:14 am

    I found that key, but if I hold down that key, he does nothing!?
    I’m using a dutch key-board.

    Does someone know’s where that key is for the dutch keyboard?

  15. Charls said on — April 17, 2008 @ 5:36 am

    is this effect possible on CS3 without making it go through Illustrator?

  16. Gideon Greene said on — April 19, 2008 @ 4:27 am

    Hi there I just wanted to compliment you on the newest video addition you uploaded, you did a great job at creating this and commend you for the technique. I have seen this done before but a poor recreation at best. i truly enjoy your videos and i am glad that i bumped into your site by accident.

  17. artytoit said on — April 22, 2008 @ 7:54 am

    I found on the UK PC keyboard it is the ‘ or @ key, next to the enter key.

  18. David said on — May 8, 2008 @ 3:58 am

    Hello there, on french Keyboard it’s the “%” near the “Enter” key.

  19. Márcio Guerra said on — May 17, 2008 @ 3:09 pm

    Hi… Nice one…

    I didn’t found it on a Portuguese keyboard… Instead, during the grid creation, I changed the language definitions on the windows vista options, in the programs bar, usually at the bottom of the page, and, even without knowing exactly which key was, I tried to press the one next to “1″ and it worked, then, after, I just changed it back, in the bottom icon, close to the date and time, back to Portuguese, and, it worked fine. For those still in XP, I believe it is exactly the same as I said here.
    And good spot on that locking the transparency. I didn’t noticed, and just created the grid on Ai. But, well, if I was going to make all the tutorial, I would probably noticed, however, thanks to you too.

    Márcio Guerra

  20. bah said on — May 19, 2008 @ 6:27 pm

    I cant select the elipse tool because when I press on it in illustrator I doesn’t give me to change from the ractangular shape tool even not ALT+M and all others tool have the same problem

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