No Grid Does Appear

[facebita]

I use a German version of Affinity Photo 2.0. When in Develop Person I chose View (Ansicht in German) and than Grid (Raster einblenden) nothing appears. What am I doing wrong?

(MBA 13" 2017, macOS 12.6.1)

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

In Photo 2, the default (Automatic) Grid is a Pixel grid, which is only visible when you zoom in significantly, such that seeing a 1px x 1px grid makes sense.

You'll need to choose a different grid type, such as Basic. View > Grid and Axis... to choose it.

[Mark_A]

Thanks for this, both. In version 1, having set a default grid, subsequently, "Cmd" and "'" would toggle its appearance - this doesn't work in version 2 and is there a way to set things up so that it does?

Mark

[walt.farrell]

13 minutes ago, Mark_A said:

Thanks for this, both. In version 1, having set a default grid, subsequently, "Cmd" and "'" would toggle its appearance - this doesn't work in version 2 and is there a way to set things up so that it does?

The same shortcuts to view/hide the Grid should work. Can you use the menu successfully?

I have a vague memory of someone else talking about the shortcuts not working, but I can't find the discussion.

[Mark_A]

Hi - yes, using the menus, displaying a grid works, especially with a preset set to display a grid in a chosen configuration.

However, version 1 allowed the user to set up a grid and the grid was then persistent - close the application and reopen it, summon up the grid once more and the grid would reappear in its previous configuration (the configuration being saved in the application settings rather than in an individual .aphoto file) - and of course on Mac the short cut Cmd + ' would toggle the grid on and off.

Mark

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, Mark_A said:

However, version 1 allowed the user to set up a grid and the grid was then persistent - close the application and reopen it, summon up the grid once more and the grid would reappear in its previous configuration (the configuration being saved in the application settings rather than in an individual .aphoto file) - and of course on Mac the short cut Cmd + ' would toggle the grid on and off.

On my Mac, in V1 of AD showing/hiding the grid is persistent but for a new document it always starts off with the automatic grid selected, not whatever other kind of grid I might have set up in some other document, so it is not sj=howing the previous grid unless it too was set to automatic.