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Inspiring
March 31, 2011
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P: Please let us change the Pen tool path size and color

  • March 31, 2011
  • 110 replies
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Sometimes the whole "shades of grey" thing just doesn't cut it, and becomes very hard to follow.

110 replies

c.pfaffenbichler
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 22, 2016
Adobe doesn't care.
Adobe, the corporation, does not so much care about any of its customers’ wishes but about getting money; but I think Adobe employees do care – maybe not all of them and naturally not all to the same extent, but I am convinced that 
• none of them want to be connected to bad software – and not only to avoid embarrassment in possible future job interviews 
• given the choice between doing good work and bad work they prefer the first 
• many are users of the software themselves (rant: though with some teams’ members it seems difficult to imagine and I am not thinking of Photoshop in this case) and therefore benefit from improvements themselves 
• they do not want to be thought of badly 
• ... 
Participant
May 22, 2016
Interesting Comment. I have been using Photoshop since the first version came on the market. Postscript printers was only an idea. Adobe had big ideas and invested time and money to give customer what they wanted. They cared back then. I have to admit I agree with you. Adobe does not care about you now. They do what they need to so the money will keep pouring in. But they have pissed a lot of users off with the rent forever and never own your software. I have doubled down on quite a few new software programs that will replace my need for Adobe products. Such as Affinity Photo. its very close to what photoshop can do. For must users has all they will need. On1 Photo 10 is great and gets better with each version. So we as users still have options. Maybe one day Adobe will wake up. But me, I will have moved on by then and will not be looking back.
Inspiring
May 21, 2016
Adobe doesn't care. 7 years of complaints on the same issue, no change. And wasn't going to the subscription model supposed to mean faster fixes??? Ha ha ha on all you customers. THEY DO NOT CARE.
Participant
April 27, 2016


I use Photoshop professionaly for 7 years. I would love to see some new adjustments.
 1- Possibility do change de color of the selection with the pen tool. If you have grey background you can ́t see the line.
2- On the new path blur, have de possibility of copy and paste a path, and on spin blur also. Thanks
Inspiring
February 22, 2016
This really needs to be a configurable property. I should be able to adjust colour or brightness maybe for paths. I should not have to waste time with workarounds. I'm finding paths extremely difficult to work with in their current state. It is really bad that this has remained unfixed for so long, but unfortunately is very much typical of Adobe.
Inspiring
February 20, 2016
you're a genius, thanks
alii26790467
Participant
October 9, 2015
All about Pen Tool for special and custom shapes. You can draw the path at your end easily. http://www.photoshophelps.com/2015/08...
Participant
October 9, 2015
You are off topic. This is a forum relating to a Photoshop issue. Your Corel Paint question should be something you ask people on a forum specificly for Corel. I mean really who even uses Corel for photo editing? That program is a joke and its files are a real pain to deal with in the printing industry.
shawn0013
Participant
October 9, 2015
Does anyone know if you can change path color in Corel Paint?
shawn0013
Participant
October 9, 2015
That's a decent fix if you are using the path as a selection tool but not so much if you are using it as a drawing tool since you can't just stroke path, move path, stroke path, etc.

And if this is fundamentally a mac problem I shouldn't have to deal with their BS because I'm smart enough to not buy their machines.