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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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KazVorpal
Participating Frequently
March 4, 2021

You mean Make Pixels Great Again

Participating Frequently
March 4, 2021

MALTA!

Make A Line Tool Again!

Participating Frequently
March 4, 2021

Hey, guys, I GOT A GREAT IDEA!!!.....   Let's have both. Rasters and Vectors can both be available. Unity!

Democrats: "Always use a Mask and use Rasters, I'm cool with that. Let the information from other layers be transparent and show through!"

Republicans: "Vectory or Death!  No Raster Requirements!, No Masks! Edges of masks are nasty when they are visible."

JUST BRING BACK THE FUNCTIONS OF THE OLD LINE TOOL! How hard is that??

JemShaw
Inspiring
March 4, 2021

@paul_kidda_corless , I think you're missing the all-important fact that this draws an old-fashioned raster line, when vectors are clearly so much better. For example:

  1. This method almost always draws a visible line, so losing that sense of adventure and suspense brought on by the new, sexy vector
  2. It's far too quick and easy, reducing that sense of achievement when you finally manage to get a usable line
  3. Adobe has moved on from this old technology to a streamlined solution that gives you lots of new layers to lose yourself in
  4. There is an implied criticism of the magnificent, munificent and beneficent organisation that allows us the privilege of working round their superbly conceived and crafted updates.
  5. This clearly pushes the buttons of the trolls on this forum, who'd rather pick a fight with their fellow pixel-punishers than add a supporting voice.

Please recant your blasphemy ;-D

Participant
March 4, 2021

Same again. The only thing we can do is to keep adding voices. The tool is needed as it was for years, the request is the same - please, bring it back.

KazVorpal
Participating Frequently
March 3, 2021

They can't "delete it completely", they undoubtedly use some kind of source control like Subversion or Git. So yes, they definitely have the pre-stupid-change code.

It may be hard to integrate with their new changes, especially if their code is as poorly organized as I imagine. A well-written program would be modular enough that changes in one spot have little impact on things overall. But that probably isn't Adobe. I mean, they released this change with the stroke set up so that it didn't work at all for existing users until they learned the whole inner/outer thing. Not the brightest knives in the shed.

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March 3, 2021
Known Participant
March 3, 2021

And as you'll note it's not a BUG.  It was a deliberate change by the crazies in charge.  And yes, the code should still exist somewhere for the original tool, unless they went and deleted it completely.  So theoretically it should be an easy fix.  Yet for some reason isn't.  And that all boils down to the fact that they don't actually care.

And throwing temper tantrums doesn't help.

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March 3, 2021

I don't think half of you lot get this. When you work in Development. If something is reported as a major bug. It's top priority. It gets fixed straight away. If that means other development gets delayed, then thats just the way it is. You don't start working on pointless stuff like Neural filters or other stuff that a professional will rarely use. Every single graphic tool on the market can draw a simple pixel line easily. Even Microsofts paints line tool is simplicity. There implementation at the moment would even be that bad if didn't create a new layer every single line you draw. Every other shape tool has a pixel option. Rectangle, ellipse, triangle etc. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever to not have it on the line tool.
A pixel line... one of the easiest things to code in a graphics program and they can't even get that right. (or it was right... some crazy fool decided to change it)

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March 3, 2021

@paul_kidda_corless It's one thing to complain, it's another to act like a toddler having a temper tantrum.