How to make grids with photoshop 6/7 and no 3d program.

OK start with a square image, your choice. I did 10 X 10 pixels.

Decisions:

Either White as a background or transparent. Your experiment with the 2.

Maybe this might help you:
If you use a background color such as white, you'll have to use a layer effect to get rid of the white inside the grid. This could be what you want.

If you want to have a see thru grid, go for transparent.

Once you've selected your choice of back ground color and Photoshop opened the new image ZOOM in to 500-600 percent.

Here is an example continuing with a transparent back ground.. I think this way has many more applications, but hey you can try both!!!!

Grab your line shape tool and make a plus or a cross.

Here is where this gets interesting. You can use the shape tool, or you can use the single row/single col marquee.

Since we zoomed in our grid will be a bit thicker.

You could have not zoomed in and made the cross/plus a pixel thick to keep the grid real thin.

Does it look like this? great. now go to

EDIT>>DEFINE PATTERN

name it..

All done!!

Now in any new image use the pattern fill tool to drop your new "grid" pattern where ever you want!

In this example on the left I used the pattern i made above. It was a bit thicker and you can see this demonstrated in the image.

 

In this 2nd example on the left I used a different pattern. It's grid is thinner and bigger. To make this type of grid I started with a bigger image ( lets say 15 pixels x 15 pixels ) and made the cross a 1 pixel width.

So its grid is thinner and bigger.

The G has scanlines that were made in a similar fashion ( no plugins ).

The round part is the grid duplicated on a new layer then polar cordinates distort filter applied.

grids are cool.. try to put one on a gradient fill and mess with the layer properties..

 

have fun =]