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Graphic Design Support: Printable Grid

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  1. LBrother Aug 8th 2008
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    Hi, I need your help again :-)

    I want to transmit my notes from a millimeter paper to Photoshop because I'd like to design it proffessionally.So on the millimeter paper there ist every 1cm a gridline and between them 10 subdivisions. I adjusted the settings in the Preferences and the Grid looks fine (although 1cm on the screen isn't the same on the paper of course).
    I'd like to print the Grid too, is there any resolution? And if not, what would you do? (Sadly I don't have Illustrator, just Photoshop CS2)

    I hope you understand what I want to do and thank you for your willing to help me ;)

    Greetings,
    LBro
  2. Plan-B Aug 8th 2008
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    i'm slightly lost...
    can't you just scan it?
  3. mik Aug 9th 2008
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    In the print dialog, you should ask for "NO" scaling.
    then 1 cm = 1 cm
    Best
    Mik
  4. LBrother Aug 9th 2008
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    Ahoi!

    @ Plan-B: Of course, I could scan it but that wouldn't be a very "professional" resolution (in addition the quality of the millimeter paper is being lost while scanning).

    @ mik: OK I scaled it to 100% so that the dimensions stay real. But that doesn't solve the problem of printing the grid. Any idea?

    Greetings,
    LBro
  5. Plan-B Aug 10th 2008
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    haha alright. well i tried. idk much about this at all really
  6. TheLeggett Aug 10th 2008
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    I'm not sure I fully understand here. It sounds like you want to bring a design from paper INTO Photoshop to -- trace over it I'm guessing.

    Then it sounds like you want to print out the finished version once polished in Photoshop WITH the Photoshop Grid?
  7. LBrother Aug 10th 2008
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    :) OK, I've already found a resolution, but I still got the question:
    Is it possible to print the grid?

    Forget about the millimeter paper and all the other stuff^^
    Greetings,
    LBro
  8. LBrother Aug 10th 2008 edited
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    Oh yeh, if you're interested in the outcome...I put my outcome into the post (OFFTOPIC).
    We wanted to renovate our bedroom and the ground is getting lower the nearer you get to the center of the room.
    I got the idea of visualising it with my collected information about the room and you see. Red is very deep and green is 0 mm = no lowering.

    This is why I wanted to print the grid...

    Greetings,
    LBrother
  9. MikeWilson Aug 13th 2008
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    one thing you could do to print the grid is screenshot and then select the pixels with the magic wand and paste onto your document.
  10. LBrother Aug 13th 2008
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    Yeah, but it's not a very professional resolution. I did it anyway.
    I've done it this way now:
    I created a new document with the size of one square (1cm in my case) and then copied one of the grid boxes into this document. It has to fit exactly. Then I defined a new pattern and pasted the pattern in my main document.
    So it seems that the grid isn't printable...

    Greetings,
    LBrother

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