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

This is a terrible feature to get rid of for no good reason. My workflow for blocking in colors in vis dev / concept art has now been completely broken. It was great to be able to use the Line tool in pixel mode as a sort of brush that you could easily tweak the width of with the bracket keys. For example, work like this is no longer possible thanks to this meaningless feature removal: https://www.instagram.com/p/CDxRJkdAW63/ 

Ah, I see! Thanks for the video. The former lines were rectangles, and you can do the same thing with rectangle tool that you did with lines, however I think one of the handy elements of your former workflow was that the width of the line was consistent across use, so you could more easily draw 4 lines with the same width using the old line tool than if you used the rectangle tool. So this same workflow is possible, but drawing a consistent width each time takes a little more manual work than it used to.

You can accelerate your workflow by using the option key after you draw the first horizontal rectangle. Click with the option key down in the left margin to pop the 'create rectangle' dialog; it will place an identical line in the new position for you, eliminating the work of having to manually match the width of the previous line (they will all be the same); and in fact eliminating the work to manually draw any line whatsoever.

@mark142840_dahm

@mark142840_dahm No, it does not do the same thing. In PS 2020 and previous versions I would create a box and use the minus line tool (option key) to dissect it to crate panels with uniform gutters. Adjusting the width of the gutter in the weight settings. Without the weight settings, and using just the stroke, it changes the width of everything. So I no longer get gutters. I just get a box with lines through it and all the width of the black stroke lines of the box increase as I try to vary the width of the line tool. See the attached video. 

Copy and save the code in a text editor, and save it as plain text, not formatted, change the extension from .text to .jsx, then put the file in the Photoshop subfolder: presets/scripts. Restart PS and it should show up in the menu under file>scripts.

How would I use this? I saved the file, but I don't understand what to do past that. As long as I've used Photoshop, I've never run scripts. TIA

Hi Lance

Thanks for your response

This might actually work...

(I wonder why the support guy did not point me in that direction)

I will have to adjust my workflow a bit, but rather that than not being able to draw straight lines anymore

Thank you very much!!!!

Hans Henrik

In my field of commercial real estate, I am perpetually marking up site plans, maps, and aerial imagery. I usually use a 9px - 15 px line, with a fill of white, red, yellow, or whatever, and with the arrowhead width @ 500%, length at 1000%, and concavity at 35%. Then I put a 3pt - 9pt stroke and minor shadow. I've done this for 25 years. And with the new version, I am having to find old arrows in other files, and copy & paste them into my new document.

Additionally, I will draw an ellipse then add a straight line of complementary size and merge the two shapes. That is just a different callout that I use.

The weight of the line will depend on what I'm actually using. If it's too crowded with other information, I'll use a thin line; if I need the callout to jump out, I'll use a heavier line. Photoshop 2021 has decided that I am not allowed to do this anymore.

You suggested using presets. How would I even do that? I use custom actions and Libraries, but I don't know from presets. I also keep seeing someone posting a whole bunch of code, and then saying to just run the script. I don't know what that means.

At this point, I've gone back to the 2020 version because it will let me do what I need to do. I realize that I am inevitably missing whatever else is new & exciting in this update, but I don't have the time to go through 87 steps to create an arrow that used to be created in 2-3.

Hi, Senrik,
 Simple lines are simple: you use the brush click where you want to start the line (you will draw a spot) then hold down the shift key and click where you want the line to end; Photoshop will draw a straight line between your start and endpoints.

For further control, you can use the pen tool to create a path, then simply stroke with a brush.

Hi Johan
I am using the line tool several hundreds of times each and every day.

It will simply be a pain in the ass to be forced to use a work around like this every time.

imagine you would have to push two more buttons every time you had to hit the exposure button on your camera in order to make it do what it does with one click today.

I bet that would have you consider changing brand of camera rather quick!

No, unfortunately it is part of the new update of Photoshop.

My mac upgraded last night and this morning I spend 1 hour trying to figure out how to reset the tool... eventually gave up and called Adobe support.

He spend 45 minutes only to realize that this is how it is in the new version of Photoshop. and the only way to get around it, is to install an older version and stop upgrading from now on!

I agree that it doesn't really make sense... Who will benefit from this?

Nevertheless the support guy showed me page from the Adobe upgrade info that says that the Line tool no longer supports pixels

(it is strange though, that the pixel option on the top left menu when the line tool is activated still says ” Shape, Curve and Pixel”... only with pixel grayed out)

Kind regards

Hans Henrik