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Photoshop: Grid is drawing too thick when zoomed out
The new grid in 21.1. Oh my God. I can't stand it. Whose idea was it to make the grid be a compulsory 2px thickness?
It looks actually very nice in zoomed-in mode:

But it's just horrible when you zoom out. What used to be a feather-thin lattice of lines has become a solid 2px-thick mess that overwhelms everything else. When you use use lots of artboards like me (and therefore need to frequently navigate around in zoomed-out mode) it becomes quite problematic.
Here's the same portion of a document with the new grid and without. Even though it's zoomed out, you can clearly make out the content of it when there's no grid. But once you show the new grid, you can barely see anything but the thick gridlines. Some of the smaller shapes that are easily visible on the left are now hard to make out, as are the translucent ones; the text is much harder to read too. Plus the whole thing is just straining on your eyes.
The old grid didn't have these problems. Dammit, Adobe, this reminds me of the shift+transform debacle. Why fix things that aren't broken, when there are already plenty of things that are broken but remain unfixed year after year? These updates are exasperating sometimes.

I can't find any setting anywhere to revert to a more sensible 1-px grid, but I'm just really really hoping that I've missed it somehow. If not, please, for the love of God, let us choose a 1px version in the settings!
It looks actually very nice in zoomed-in mode:
But it's just horrible when you zoom out. What used to be a feather-thin lattice of lines has become a solid 2px-thick mess that overwhelms everything else. When you use use lots of artboards like me (and therefore need to frequently navigate around in zoomed-out mode) it becomes quite problematic.
Here's the same portion of a document with the new grid and without. Even though it's zoomed out, you can clearly make out the content of it when there's no grid. But once you show the new grid, you can barely see anything but the thick gridlines. Some of the smaller shapes that are easily visible on the left are now hard to make out, as are the translucent ones; the text is much harder to read too. Plus the whole thing is just straining on your eyes.
The old grid didn't have these problems. Dammit, Adobe, this reminds me of the shift+transform debacle. Why fix things that aren't broken, when there are already plenty of things that are broken but remain unfixed year after year? These updates are exasperating sometimes.
I can't find any setting anywhere to revert to a more sensible 1-px grid, but I'm just really really hoping that I've missed it somehow. If not, please, for the love of God, let us choose a 1px version in the settings!
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AkashSharma
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6 months ago
We are happy to announce the release of Photoshop 21.2.1 that should resolve this issue.
This update includes fixes to some of the top customer reported issues among other bug fixes. See Bug fixes and security updates
To update Photoshop to 21.2.1, click "Update" in the Creative Cloud desktop app next to Photoshop.
More detailed instructions for updating
Let us know how it goes.
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v_s_7ntr1dnx1bq13
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1. If the grid or guides are turned on, performance is terrible. Very slow, laggy, jagged screen panning, etc. The first time I experienced this I thought that Photoshop was going to crash. For reference, my specs are: Windows 10; AMD 1800x; 1070 GTX; 32 GB RAM; Samsung M.2 SSD
2. The grid and guides look terrible. Both are blurry and their colors are not as vibrant/high contrast. I have cyan guides, for example, and they look washed out and blurry now. The zoomed-out view of the grid as David Bleja demonstrated looks awful, not crisp at all. We should have a way of reverting back to the more solid grid prior to this latest update.
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todd_shaner_6660895
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Gridline every 1 inch with 4 Subdivisions 5616 x 3744 with 300 ppi setting
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milo_ze_evi
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I found out that I have the same problem with support for GPU. There is option to turn offantialising for graphic cart if guides and grid are too thick but it does not work. Beside guides and grids look terrible, performance with thick grid is very bad. I tried to turn off GPU support and grids backs to normal (thin) but performance is not so good as with GPU. This started to occurs in version before 21.1.3. I am using RTX studio drivers with Nvidia 2070S.
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matt_denton_7616256
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elisei_kulikovsky
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6 months ago
PS 21.2.1, Asus GeForce GTX 780, Win 10 x64.
The problem is marked as solved but it's not!
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milo_ze_evi
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080, Win 10x64.
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leonie_frank
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5 months ago
Since I updatet to 20.2., if I activate the grid, it
shows thicker lines shaped like an L or so. I can't zoom, it just jumps around,
the dynamic zoom doesn't work at all. It is a horror, I can't work with grids,
which I need all the time. With version 20.0.9 everything was fine. Can the
problem be the graphic driver? I have an Eizo FS2333 monitor and the graphic
card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670, dirver vers. 451.67. It doesn't work on either of
our 2 desktops, but is fine on the old laptops.I reset the preferences, no change.
But the perspective crop
grid works ok
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milo_ze_evi
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Installed this morning version 21.2.2. of Photoshop, but problem is still present. Performance is still very poor. For me doing web graphics this grid it is totally useful and annoying.
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