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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

Known Participant
October 24, 2020

What good is a line tool that can't draw lines? 

What do you think people use a line tool for? 

What were you thinking? 

IMVHO disabling the PIXEL option in line tool was a BAD IDEA!!!

Thanks for your patience. 

~o0~ moldred ~0o~

Earth Oliver
Legend
October 24, 2020

@YVerloc And extremely heavy concept artwork is lightweight retouching 😉  But i 100% agree that Adobe should be focused on improving the lives of those who use Photoshop for eight hours a day, every day, year after year, and who have businesses and families that all depend on us getting our jobs done. Small disruptions to our professional workflows can have a profound impact on our lives and those around us too.
While we may be the minority of users, the time we spend using the app dwarfs all the other groups combined.

j. aaronk67378513
Participating Frequently
October 24, 2020

@Jeremy Plant 

I've been getting the feeling that they definitely do not understand the concept art workflow, or if they do understand it they do not care - since the number of updates that have been relevant to the concept art community has been verging on zero for at least a decade. How much longer do we have to wait before the brush engine gets an update, for example? It's a shame because concept artists are Photoshop's power users, not photographers.  Extremely heavy duty photo editing is extremely light weight concept art.

Known Participant
October 24, 2020

Confirmed as a work around. Still would like to get a fix.

j. aaronk67378513
Participating Frequently
October 24, 2020

I've been using photoshop eight hours a day for twenty five years now, so anything that happened in the last five years or so still counts as recent to me 🙂

Mark C. Dahm
Community Manager
Community Manager
October 24, 2020

That worked; thanks!

Chuck Uebele
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 24, 2020
Mark C. Dahm
Community Manager
Community Manager
October 24, 2020

Getting and access denied message there, Chuck

Known Participant
October 24, 2020

" the pixel option disappeared not because we wanted to remove it, but because the lines were redefined as two end points instead of a four-pointed rectangle, and two point lines by definition have no width to stroke (path tool is the the same way)."

While conceptually this may make sense, representationally it does not.  Any time a line is represented in a drawing it must by definition have width! 

The problem goes beyond how many layers the new process creates.  Instead of attaching the arrowheads at the end of the line, it overlaps the line so that the sides of the rectangle stick out of the sides of the arrowheads. 


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Can't you just put it back the way it was?

Chuck Uebele
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 23, 2020

Well, until the line tool arrow features can be edited in the properties panel, you  an use the script at this link to edit the arrowheads.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/forums/editpage/board-id/photoshop/message-id/476338