Hi there im hoping one of ya guys here can recommend a free software that doese a grid overlay on digital photo's, I have found some but there usualy bundle in some very expensive software.. ** for those digital photo artist i guess* i dont or want anything that substantial im rather found of paper and pencil. So if u have any suggestions on free* cause im broke* or realy cheap program that can put up a grid on a digital photo please leave a link for me .. thanks alot..

When I use the grid method I created several stamps in Photoshop that I layer on the photo. Depending on the size of the photo. For smaller photos I use either .5 x .5 or .25 x .25.

There was a user here a year or three ago who created such a program and I think posted it for download right in these forums; you might try searching for it here.

I found the thread Ernest was referring to : Williac's thread
I'd read through the whole thread before downloading the program, looks like he kept fixing it to meet everyone's technical needs. The first download link didn't work for me, but the second one did. It's a cool home-made program, but it looks like you'll have to resize your picture before loading it into the program...

Gimp is a free share ware. It has a built in overlay that one can customize pretty easily.



Here is link to gimp download

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

Oh WOW....this is a great little program. What a find! And how very easy - I will be sure to use this when I need to grid.....

Thanks to everyone!!!, IM realy glad to be apart of this community here, im realy enjoying the lesson's from the website, im still trying to keep to my work unique, the I use to talk charcol on my fingers and do all my shading. majority of what i posted done that way im very hands on. i guess now i learned not to do that and use a paper towel LOL. So much to learn so little time. IM enjoying it all so much.. thanks to all, im going to have to look at the challenges you all have been talking about in the forums ive read threw, where do i find this CHallenge ?

for the challenges look here : challenges

I love the idea of the grid on the screen, can download it OK, but could not get the grid size to change. The other download mentioned would not work.

Hi there mumwond,
I downloaded the overlay_maker.zip and it worked fine for me. I could resize the grid using the + and - keys on my numeric pad from very tiny to nearly the whole page. I hope it works for you......it is a nifty little programe
Sharon

Just got a laptop, so no numeric pad. I've tried the + and - from top line where numbers are, but no result.

Oh bummer mumwond......I re-read through the post from Williac but the link to the zupload for the arrow key changes does not work for me. Sorry I cant help but that's about as technical as I get!
Sharon

Oh Well, back to the ruler. I really don't want to spend time working out photoshop or gimp. They really don't interest me - I just like drawing.

Gimp is free! I only use it when I need to work with digital media.

Regards,
Gilbert