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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 23, 2020

Gotcha; thanks for the feedback, Jeremy, and sorry again for the workflow bump; I do understand how something that sounds minor can have a major impact.

Mark C. Dahm
Community Manager
Community Manager
October 23, 2020

Stroke now handles the job of Weight, and weight was removed; you can stroke a line to any width, just as you did a weight.

You may not see the stroke if your stroke alignment is not centered our outside, so check on that.

If you want an arrow that has a separate fill and stroke, you can use a Layer Effect, like this:

 

The arrow you drew in the first example can be drawn with a white fill and white stroke, and a black stroke layer effect.
Participating Frequently
October 23, 2020

Thanks for the reply but this needlessly adds a layer of difficulty. Completely disrupts workflow. Its impossible to explain but I guarantee you will be inundated with complaints on this one. Maybe just have a legacy option?

Mark C. Dahm
Community Manager
Community Manager
October 23, 2020

Sorry this change was disruptive; 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 we look into how we might be able to accommodate this request, here's a couple tips that may restore your workflow:

1. You can rasterize lines to make them pixels at any point

2. If the main benefit of the pixel option for you was to prevent a bunch of new layers from being created as you drew the lines, you can hold down the shift key at the beginning of drawing the second line, and the second line will appear on the same layer as the first line. That technique may effectively give you the result you may be looking for.

Participating Frequently
October 23, 2020

Who in their right mind decided it was a good idea to not only change the Line Tool but also prevent users being able to use the pixel option!?!? Seriously stupid Adobe!! Have to go back to old version now.

Last few hours wasted trying to get someone to fix it by remote and then having to reinstall old version. Honestly!! 

Shows how little you understand concept art workflows.

Participating Frequently
October 23, 2020

You have to set the stroke properties to indicate the kind of line you want. The default is set to nothing.

Participating Frequently
October 23, 2020

I loath the update on the Line tool - why on earth disable the pixel option. Please fix ASAP

JJMack
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 23, 2020

Without line weight line shape can only create arrowheads for none existing lines for the tool does stroke line paths and the arrowhead size can not be relative to line weight.  What is happing in Adobe development?

2020 vs 2021

JJMack
Inspiring
October 23, 2020

Started to use 2021 and wanted to draw an arrow. I set up the line tool to draw an arrow and all I got was the arrowhead, no line. Turned off the arrow feature and tried just a line and got nothing. Going back to PS2020 for the moment.

Tom Winkelmann
Inspiring
October 23, 2020

- select & copy the code

- insert it in your text-editor and save it with the ending *.jsx (or as *.txt and rename it)
- start photoshop

- create a document

- run the script