Using grids and guides

Many new users of Clip Studio Paint don’t know that the software comes with a customizable grid that can be shown or hidden, or that you can create guides in the program as well. Grids and guidelines are handy for many tasks, of course, and provide a visual measurement that is easy to count and divide. Also, the grids and guidelines in Clip Studio Paint can be snapped to, making it very easy to get elements lined up precisely as they need to be.

In this section, we will learn how to show and hide the grid and how to make guidelines.

Showing and hiding the grid

To see the grid in action, let’s look at the following screenshot:

Figure 13.40: Screenshot of the canvas with a grid

Looking closely, we can see that some of the lines are darker. These darker lines are our grid lines. Between each grid line are three grid-dividing lines that break each larger square of the grid up into four sections in each direction, giving a total...