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

@mark_dahm Any chance the weight option can be added back??? In my daily work I've used the box shape and line tool to crate panels with a gutter. I can't do that If I can't adjust the weight of the line tool.

@mark142840_dahm

This new tool is extremely problematic.

Someone from support provided a recommendation of using the line tool with no fill and add the weight to the stroke, and then make additional modifications in the Live Shape Properties tab. That still doesn't work to change the weight of the line itself. When I try to modify the weight, it changes the stroke, not the line.

Additionally, the arrowheads used to be sized proportionally with percentage numbers based on the weight of the line. That has been changed to specific pixels. That makes no sense.

I need to be able to point to objects on pictures and aerial photographs and site plans. This is a simple but integral part of my job every day for 25 years. And now I can't do it. I am having to go into new files, copy the layer with my line or arrow, and then paste it into the new file.

Someone from support also suggested using the pen tool. How? How do I create an arrow with perfectly straight lines using the pen tool? Do I have to draw a long thin rectangle followed by a triangle and then somehow merge them, and fill them and stroke them with the company colors for the project?

How is this progress?

You can use Layer Styles to stroke both the arrowhead and the line, if you need them both. 

Additionally, consider saving a preset for your line tool so you can expedite selecting the line with the correct arrowhead and line attributes.

I do think we should add a quick way to apply your stroke layer style to the options bar; that is a good feature request, since that is not saved with the preset.

no.  it fills the arrow head with yellow, but the line has no fill so it is just the black outline.  the only way i could find to do it was make a yellow arrow and then use an outer glow of black to give it a black outline.  i have to do hundreds of these arrows every day so the extra time really mounts up.  easier to use the older version.

@Kenneth Campbell does using yellow fill and black stroke on the line achieve the intended result? This should show yellow arrowheads that are outlined with black colour.

yes,  that is the problem.  if you want a yellow arrow with a black outline for example there is no way of doing that now

@Kenneth Campbell both outer and on-the-shape stroke alignments work for line shapes. The inside stroke alignment doesn't work now because lines have zero weight, and there's no inside.

on the latest update (22.0) the arrow head supports fill but the line doesnt.  The new line tool is restricted to 2 points and can only be given width by the outer stroke unfortunately.  

@Kenneth Campbell arrowheads support fill and stroke both, similar to previous Ps versions.

This new behavior is so confusing. Yes, holding shift creates just one layer, but it also constrains to straight/45° lines. So you have to be very careful with pressing and releasing the shift key. To be honest I consider that a bad design choice. Anyways, I almost exclusively used the old Line tool as an easy to use tool for creating arbitrary guides as a visual help when retouching (which is unfortunately not otherwise possible). And immediately it seems more complicated as I don't need all this fancy Liveform stuff ... maybe I get used to it 😞