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

i am having a problem with this too.  i use the lines with arrowheads all the time to annotate my images.  due to the standardisation the arrows have to be yellow with a black outline.  so by having now having to adjust the stroke and the fill having no use i can only make the arrow one colour.  Now i cant just click and drag an arrow out.  the best solution i have come up with is to use the custom shape tool.  but this always puts the arrow facing the same direction and not the point at the start of the click so my workflow has increased greatly.  another option is to create an outer glow template to add after the arrow has been drawn but this is also time consuming.  seems like a silly thing to have got rid of.  I have had to resort back to the older version of Photoshop which is a shame

that helps, thanks. There's a lot to like about the direction the tool is headed, but the UX is not feeling very intuitive relative to the rest of Ps. And I'm talking just about the line/arrow tool, specifically. I think all the other shapes are in a pretty good place.

Hi Mark!

Thanks for the reply and suggestion.

Depending on the end use of the artwork, that could work yes. However it doesn't necessarily replace the missing functionality.

Using the pen tool as in your video, the end result will be pixel-based because it is creating the effect with a stroke. If the project's output is pixel-based that would do just fine.

However, the Line Tool's previous functionality is a vector rectangle that could be merged and copied out to another application like Illustrator and it would retain all the inner detail from the linework. A line with a stroke will simply disappear from a merge operation.

An alternative usecase might be if the artwork we made in the videos were to be an icon. If we were to use a stroke for that detail, and then scale the icon, the stroke will not scale proportionally with the icon. The example video I posted would scale proportionally because the linework is not reliant on a stroke.

Also in my example I was using it to cut into the artwork, thus allowing it to show the layer beneath it, which is also sometimes desired if I were creating an icon or a single color that I wanted to work on a black or white background--I'd need the subtraction.

The best other parallel I would have would be a method like you showed in your example video--but done in Illustrator instead where it could be followed up with an Outline Stroke operation to remove the stroke but retain the appearance--which I suppose could be another way to attack the request--being able to outline the stroke in Photoshop.

Thanks for hearing the request!

Hold the shift key down to NOT create all those layers; you can select all the lines by selecting that layer, and all the lines change (eg, stroke).

Yeah, that arrow editing needs to get better.

How about using the pen tool for this, again, using stroke, like this:

https://shared-assets.adobe.com/link/01f39f81-4a62-48dd-5ba2-0bfcf4cdc82c

You can still change the width of the lines with stroke weight.

Hi Mark!

Thanks for the quick reply! Actually, no--not fill the gap--make it!

Drawing "lines"/rectangles from any angle could work assuming it worked like the legacy line in previous versions. Again--love the change, but just looking to have the previous functionality returned if possible in some way. It was unique and useful.

I hadn't yet put the new version down on my laptop, so I made a very quick video example of how I'd been previously using the line tool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT4bxFUtTVg&feature=youtu.be

A bit quick and rough in the example, but the point comes across. The advantage here is that as pointed out, I'm not drawing lines but quickly drawing rectangles that cut into the shape at various angles and thicknesses. I've also made use of them as additive too in projects--so not limited to cutting.

Thanks Mark, in theory they'd be better, yes. The problem is that we often simply want to quickly just draw a bunch of arrows without needing editablity after. Imagine needing to draw a dozen arrows on a page... with the new version, my only options are either creating 12 shape layers or a using the Path option, which really isn't a Path? It's a live shape? But i can't use the Properties Panel to change its appearance? Nor can i change the shape of the arrow after being drawn? If i use a path, it behaves so strangely too when i try to transform. Even though it's a path, it doesn't behave like a path... Honestly, I've never in decades of daily Ps usage been so confused by a tool and its behavior. 

Alternatively, maybe we could add an option like we have for the polygon tool that lets you draw the shape in any direction (freeform; it's also new in Ps 22); an unconstrained 4 sided polygon in freeform mode might include all the same functionality of the former line tool (minus the arrowhead), but again, is that any better than the stroke solution for you?

Earth, with the new lines being two end points and a zero point 'weight', there is no line to stroke with pixels, so the option is now grayed out (just as it is for the path tool).

Rasterizing the line gets you to the pixels you're looking for. But wouldn't the non-rasterized lines be more useful and interactive in most cases?

@CMJRoss_CRE 

As four cornered rectangles, Photoshop's old lines were problematic to move around onscreen after you drew them, and the weight control was not interactive (after you drew the line, changing the value would not affect the line, but would control how the NEXT line would be drawn).

A two point path with a stroke is the prevailing line design paradigm that most apps with lines follow, even across non design apps, but in Illustrator and XD, as well. It offers what we believed to be a simpler, but equally functional interaction model; use stroke to adjust line width (no more non-interactive width control setting). Together with the new on-canvas controls added for all shapes, we believed this would make changing the width of lines simpler, and moving the lines around on screen after you draw them easier as well (just grab one of the two anchor points the move either of the ends around).

We didn't expect to see any degradation of options with the new lines, though admittedly, the arrow heads should be made to be more interactive. What aspect of the new line fails for you and your workflows; there is always room for improvement.