P: Please let us change the Pen tool path size and color

removing anti-aliasing makes little difference on my display.

Adobe's Jeffrey Tranberry answered this recently in a related thread, I did this and it completely fixed the problem:

Set the following preference such that the path appearance matches previous versions of Photoshop:

Preferences>Performance...
Click on [Advanced Settings...]
Uncheck "Anti-Alias Guides and Paths"

Restart Photoshop.

This issue with the pen tool has been giving me fits for several years and it would certainly seem that it could have been resolved by now.

When I draw a path around something on a layer and have completed it by closing I then apply a mask and everything around my selection is removed - no new layers are created, everything stays on the same layer with the data removed outside of my path as desired by applying the mask. I can then further remove, by using the mask, data inside of my selection by drawing multiple paths, selecting them and then fill them with black. Works fine and dandy with the exception of not being able to see the darned path line too well. Really frustrating.

If I draw my path using the shape tool setting I can indeed change the color and stroke weight of the path being created, it has always been like that, but when I am done drawing the path I have a shape outline on a separate layer above the layer I want to be working on. I am not able to apply a mask to the object I was cutting out of the file with the pen tool set to shape. Yes, I can make the line any color I want and change the size of the path line to anything desired but the end result is not the same when it comes to cutting out an object and applying a mask. Setting the pen tool to draw the path as a shape does not perform in the same manner as the pen tool does when set to the path setting. Having the ability to set a color to the path line in the shape settings does me no good at all.

What I, an no doubt many others, need is the ability to change the color and size to the line created by the path tool. It would seem reasonable to presume that if these settings can be used and applied to the path created by the shape pen line it should work the same for the path created with the pen. I am still waiting for this situation to be resolved and with every update over the years I have been let down over and over again. Sure hope this change is coming soon.

Frank

See my comment above: there is a very easy workaround that doesn't require Adobe to actually write good software.

THE FIX: draw your path using the pen tool as a shape layer. You can then specify the color for the path, and you can also change the path weight as needed.

Please please please fix this. People have been begging for this for years. It is a major problem that nearly renders the path tool useless. Maybe we should try a class action lawsuit under the Americans with Disabilities Act if Adobe won't get their heads out of their posteriors on this issue. Not everyone has the eyes of a 20 year old and the size of a pixel on modern displays is just too small to discern grey on grey in a quick and easy manner.

If the problem is only because of Mac OpenGL then I say screw them. Let us Win users have a functional path tool and the Mac people can suffer or switch systems. Apple's sales figures aren't Adobe's concern.

It would be nice to have an option to change the color of the path/line drawn with de pen tool in photoshop. It's difficult to see it with some type of backgrounds.

hah!

In my dreams, it exists!

Sign him up then - and please add this pathing fix ASAP. Thanks.

I think he was making an attempt at humor by adding a nonexistent control to the preferences dialog.