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mrbobdobolina
Known Participant
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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Ciellchan
Known Participant
November 5, 2020

I'm on the same train. Currently working on the production for comics for a well known company and my workflow got awfully slow because of this. 

I updated today wishing the pixel mode would be available again but it keeps being greyed out. 
The upcoming production of next year comics is near and this issue does not seem to get any resolution. I think many of us will be force to migrate to another software if this does not get solve soon. 

Participating Frequently
November 5, 2020

I use the line tool to quickly draw lines.  In PS 2021, apparently I can no longer draw a simple line with this tool--the Pixel option is grayed out.  I am stymied by this!  I am a medical illustrator who adds labels and leader lines to call out anatomical structures.  Please fix this!  Or give a really outstanding reason why it has changed.  This is a good enough reason to go back to 2020 for me.

Inspiring
November 5, 2020

I am an architecture student who uses the line tool on different drawings to either fix them or point to things on maps, and now you've taken the line tool away (that's how I see it anyway). This is a ridiculous thing to do, you're supposed to make the software better, not worse.

Because of this useless update, using the line tool is either over complicated or impossible. The lines don't appear as layers anymore and the aren't selectable as they used to be.

JUST GIVE US THE LINE TOOL BACK.

Inspiring
November 5, 2020

Please add the option "Pixel" to the tool Line Drawing Tool - Pixels again

lukeb34835997
Participating Frequently
November 4, 2020

ALL of this!  I will add one more thing to the workflow requirements listed above for me is the ability to adjust the thickness of that line with shortcuts as we would a brush,  I am constantly adjusting the thickness of the line as I draw on the fly so needing to go and manually type width in a box or something is out of the question.

Participating Frequently
November 4, 2020

Twitter brought me here... I'm a professional illustrator, and I absolutely need the line tool – to be precise: a line tool that's (a) pixelated, (b) visibly outlined while drawing, (c) attracted by grids and (d) switchable with just one click from the pencil tool – for my workflow! To me, this simple line tool is one of the core-and-key elements of any workable graphics program, and if Adobe insists on killing it, I'll finally have no choice but to look for an alternative. 

Mark C. Dahm
Community Manager
Community Manager
November 4, 2020

@CMJRoss_CRE ,

Will do. We are still discussing the changes and will reach out to folks to ensure that we meet the workflow requirements being outlined here. Looks like we have the right folks here to weigh in on that.

lukeb34835997
Participating Frequently
November 4, 2020

Registered for the same reason, to ask what the heck is going on with the line tool.  This is beyond ridiculous.  My entire workflow depends on a very small subset of tools within photoshop that I use constantly, the raster width line (or more accurately rectangle) tool is one of them.  

lukeb34835997
Participating Frequently
November 3, 2020

thanks for the tip!  Might have to use this for inking until Adobe fixes their F***K up

lukeb34835997
Participating Frequently
November 3, 2020

thankyou!  As a concept artist for animated film, our whole studio is in the same boat.  Very frustrating to have our workflow so disrupted.