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mrbobdobolina
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July 7, 2015

P: Photoshop 22.0: Where is Line Weight/Width and Pixels options?

  • July 7, 2015
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I'm having trouble using the Line Tool in PS 22.0.0. 

 

How do I set the width/weight of the line? In PS 21 there was a "Weight" option along the top bar, but I don't see that anymore. Am I missing it? Or did it move? 

 

This might be a separate issue, but the lines I'm drawing are not showing up. I have a fill color and stroke color selected, but when I make a line, I don't see it. I just see a blue outline of where it is... the same that might happen if I made a "path" instead of a "shape." 

 

I just need to make a line with a width/weight of 20px.

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676 replies

Inspiring
November 24, 2020

I seem to have found a bug with the latest version of Photoshop.

I have just created a line using the line tool but I cannot seem to change the line height, I set it to any value and the shape height does not change, it just reverts to 0px once I click off of it. 

stever71725084
Inspiring
November 24, 2020

Has Adobe confirmed the old line/arrow tool will be restored in an upcoming version or update, or are we just going to have to learn to live without fossil fuels and live with spotty solar power on our own roofs?

At this point, all I see is them saying, "Ya, we know you want your gas powered cars back, but we in California believe you must drive an electric car. You will learn to live without gas powered cars and the Photoshop line tool because we know what is best for you in each of your employment applications. Who needs the line tool anyway. Just quit and go on welfare in down town San Fran!!!

Participating Frequently
November 24, 2020

Please just give us the old functionality back. This wasn't broken and didn't need fixing. 

Ciellchan
Known Participant
November 23, 2020

Yes. It has to do exactly what the old tool did, nothing more, nothing less.

Just a tool that lets you visualize and create a pixel line on the layer you selected.

No new layers, no modification needed after being created, no vector, nothing new or different please. 

KazVorpal
Participating Frequently
November 23, 2020

@mark_dahm

I want to make clear the minimum criteria for this to be solved:

  1. The tool must show a line identical to the final product, while it's being drawn. We have to be able to preview it before commiting the line, so that we see exactly what it will look like in the end.
  2. When it is committed, it must lay the line as pixels onto the target layer, even if it's a layer with other pixels on it, if that's what we intend.  

Any "fix" that doesn't restore our precision and speed of workflow in these two ways will not even be a reasonable compromise.

As far as I know, those are the deal-breakers. For example, I am not aware of anyone really worried about restoring the pixel line being a rectangle, unless that's what's necessary to meet the two above criteria in a timely manner.

Participating Frequently
November 23, 2020

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/whats-new/2021.html#jdi

I use the line tool in pixel line mode frequently in my work. I work at Dreamworks Animation and I need to use the line tool to indicate shader/texture references. It is an important part of my job. I would like to ask you to bring back to pixel option.

Participating Frequently
November 23, 2020

This killed my workflow. I had to spend an hour the other night doing something that would have taken me 5 minutes. I had to roll back to the previous version and re-set everything up. What a pain. 

I don't know how Adobe could have been so far off on this one. Do their programmers know anyone who uses the app?

This was about as good a move as when they changed the functionality of scaling after decades of a standard procedure. 

Participating Frequently
November 23, 2020

Imagine you take a paper and a pencil and start drawing, everybody knows how a pencil works. Now imagine Adobe makes you updated pen and paper without asking. Every time you drew a line its either invisible or needs accepting and adjusting before you can draw more. Thats basically what you have done to pixel lines. You turned fast intuitive drawing to slow pain. To put it short Adobe: fix it, give us a refund for last month and apologize. Also shame on you for not testing your updates in real use. This update affected my business. My trust in Adobe is gone, I will not recommend relying on Adobe products for anyone. I will start studying alternative software.

Participating Frequently
November 23, 2020

@mark_dahm Imagine you take a paper and a pencil and start drawing, everybody knows how a pencil works. Now imagine Adobe makes you updated pen and paper. Every time you drew a line its either invisible or needs accepting and adjusting before you can draw more. Thats basically what you have to pixel lines. To put it short Adobe: fix it, give us a refund for last month and apologize. Also shame on you for not testing your updates in real use. This update affected my business. My trust in Adobe is gone, I will not recommend relying on Adobe products for anyone. I will start studying alternative software.

Inspiring
November 22, 2020

@mark_dahm you changed a simple tool into multiple clicks? not happy I have a live real money job relying on this tool, and you want me to Faf around with layer shapes?
Typical Adobe nonsense, add 10 feature I don't care for, and break 20 I neeed.