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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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Mark C. Dahm
Community Manager
Community Manager
October 26, 2020

@tomwalker55 , if the line is not showing up, check your stroke alignment; should be center or outside.

JJMack
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 25, 2020
JJMack
JJMack
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 25, 2020

Adobe broke the line shape tool when they removed line weight. The Line Shape tool can only create arrowhead Shape layers. You have to use the rectangle shape tool to create line weight shape layers. Use both tools and merge the two shape layers to create a shape layer with the arrowheads you want. For if you Stroke the Arrow Shape Layers the arrow line stroke will be a 0x wide stroke line,  or a 1x wide stroke line, or a 2x wide stroke line.  None of these will be the arrow shape layer you want. For only 0x, wide line arrow layer arrowheads point to the correct location you do not an arrow shaft you have been shafted. 

 

JJMack
Inspiring
October 25, 2020

Needed only to draw a simple straight line on a photo. A simple task -now made complicated. The solution?  Use an earlier version of Photoshop. A step backwards. 

Inspiring
October 25, 2020

WHY???? Removing the pixel option is an aggravation, not an improvement. 

JJMack
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 25, 2020

Give us a tool a line tool that is as useable as the old line tool.

JJMack
JJMack
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 25, 2020

There is also the Arrowhead positioning problem. If I set the stroke to be inside I'll get arrowheads where I clicked bute bit get the arrow lineshaft.

If I set the stroke to be along the Path I'll get the arrow lineshaft but the arrowheads will be beyond where I clicked.

If I set the stroke to be outside the line path I get a double-width arrow shaft and a larger arrowhead way past where I clicked.

JJMack
JJMack
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 25, 2020

Adobe needs to address the problem with their invalid stroke setting.  Line Paths are not closed path there is no Inside there is no outside there is just a mathematical line formula.

JJMack
JJMack
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 25, 2020

The thing is a zero weight line has no width so there is no inside or outside there is just a mathematical line formula. Even the Strok setting Icons are wrong. They depict a stroke inside a closed path, outside a closed path, and along a closed path.  A line path is not a closed path. Photoshop Installer migrated met current Stroke setting.  Photoshop should have generated an error message for the setting is invalid for a line path.

JJMack
tomwalker55
Participant
October 24, 2020

I draw a line with an arrow head, and no matter what I set the line is simply gone. I can stroke it anyway I like and - nothing.

What the hell are you people thinking??? Something that took zero time and thought now requires multiple steps. Just dumb as a post. You wanna add controls, fine, but keep the simplest methods intact. Jesus wept.