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Visible thirds
Q Does Photoshop have a rule-ofthirds grid I can keep visible all the time?
Caroline Hart
Most editing software, including Lightroom, Camera Raw and Photoshop, will allow you to have a rule-of-thirds grid visible on the image when you are using the Crop Tool as a compositional aid. In Lightroom you can change this to a different overlay (such as the golden spiral) really easily by pressing the letter O while using the Crop Tool; but like you Caroline, I find the rule-of-thirds grid most helpful. If you are shooting raw and using Camera Raw to edit, you’ll know the Crop and Rotate Tool has a rule-of-thirds grid visible when you use it, and that’s the same in Photoshop itself
