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Fixed: Pixels option is greyed out for Line tool Photoshop 22.0

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October 20, 2020
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I'm liking most of today's update for PShop, thanks Adobe.

But, I went to use the Line Tool (part of the Shape Tools) and the option to draw with pixels is grayed out. I can draw lines with paths and as a shape, but no longer with pixels. The pixels option is available for all the other shapes (square, ellipse, the new triangle, polygon, custom shapes, etc.), so I don't know why it wouldn't work for lines.

Does anyone know what happened?

{Moderator Note: PS-57177}

Correct answer Akash Sharma

Hi All,

Good news, the Pixels mode is now back. For more details on adjusting line weight see Create lines and arrows using the Line tool

To update Photoshop to 22.3, click "Update" in the Creative Cloud desktop app next to Photoshop. See: More detailed instructions for updating

Let us know your feedback!

Thanks,

Akash

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Neural

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Starting in mid 2019 and throughout 2020, Adobe has consistently had more and more issues with Photoshop. I've been using the program on and off since around version 2, and I've never seen such critcally poor performance in regards to crashes, freezing, and other bugs.

And now with the change to the line tool, this whole thing smacks of elitism from someone in Adobe who "knows better than you how to be an artist".
This absurd level of trouble with a software program that has a long legacy of being solid is usually only reserved for when a program is sold off from the original company to another business that simply wants to maximize profits on the reputation of the programs name.

But Photoshop is still owned by Adobe.

KazVorpal

Participating Frequently

I agree with both of your main points, which have become a theme of mine on here:

1. Adobe seems to be suffering from the increasingly common sort of corporate arrogance, where they decide the user should be forced to do things a certain way. Like trying to force us all to use vector even when it's irrelevant to our work, since print media is deservedly dying and we're mostly doing purely electronic work.

2. The last couple of years of releases have been increasingly unstable, unreliable, and unable to perform even on powerful machines. Each time I have to restart photoshop because of some memory leak, or because the hardware acceleration has turned itself off again (I have the latest drivers for both of my machine's video cards), or whatever I am that much more encouraged to switch to Photoshop alternatives, which I am doing for longer each time.

p3ta.eng

Participant

Really???? Really?????? WHY JUST WHY removal a good tool.

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Anonymous

I know myself and others at my work do NOT like the loss of the line tool for "erasing". Yes you can't choose a "pixel width

and we use the line tool for cutting out objects. It was very quick and easy. I hope Adobe will add this small but great function back in the next update!

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dragonnan1

Participant

Thank God Adobe doesn't build cars! They'd remove the steering wheel to "increase workflow"

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horia6C14

Participant

I'm an art director / concept artist in AAA games in Seattle, and I actually use the line too to paint daily... making straigh strokes of varying width/opacity quickly on the same layer and using short cuts. I just needed to add to the pile here in hopes of getting this feature back working how it did (line tool not graying out the pixel option). I've spend 30mins trying to figure out a work around and after seeing this thread I realize I'm just out of luck. There's actually stuff I'm not sure how the heck I'm going to do moving forward w/out installing an old version- I dont know how the speed and intuituve feel of this feature can be worked around 😕😕

JJMack

Community Expert

You should add your feedback on Adobe's Photoshop Feedback site. You not Addressing Adobe in this User Forum site. We are users like you. Here is a link you should use for giving Adobe your feedback. There many Photoshop users are giving Adobe feedback on the changed Line tool.

https://feedback.photoshop.com/

JJMack

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Tomasz5D43

Participant

Dear Adobe why did you do this? Photoshop is not Illustrator... We really need pixel lines, photoshop is broken right now.

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robertd58785886

Participating Frequently

Ah another year, another Photoshop update and another round of problems.... I'm sorry Adobe but this is getting old...

Among continued performance issues, questionable new features, core functionality rarely a concern anymore and perfected workflows thrown out the window I too would like to draw a pixel-based straight line.

Hoping we get this function back soon, because going back to 2020's version isnt an option for me personally because of show-stopping performance issues.

KazVorpal

Participating Frequently

I've been using Photoshop for 28 years, and this is the worst performance trouble I remember encountering. I have a powerful machine, with the current drivers for both of my video cards, and plenty of RAM. But I'm having to restart PS several times per day because the image stops updating, or the whole program starts running so slowly that it's useless, or it seems to leak memory until the whole machine is crawling even with PS simply sitting in the background with one relatively small image open. Or PS just dies on its own.

As I said, I've been using it for decades, and so I'm familiar with all the normal suggestions about replacing drivers, having enough RAM, using the correct drive for various things (sometimes a larger one, sometimes an SSD, depending), and so on. This is different.

It started a year or two ago, but with the update to 2021 it snowballed. I really am experimenting with alternatives like Affinity, Clip Studio, and GIMP, when time and task allows it. Any temptation to just stick to photoshop, my preferred graphics tool since 1992, is undone each time I lose work thanks to Photoshop suddenly erroring every time I try to save a medium-sized file, or some other problem as I mentioned above.

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davidaaraaf

Participant

Chiming in with everyone else:

I use the line tool in pixel mode literally all the time.

I work with lasers and need to draw tons of beam paths and the path/vector options just bog down the file.

This change is downright silly and has already cost productivity.

somethingSTRANGE

Participant

This change is horrible. But hey, it's 2020. Lets just remove Layers while we're at it. Oh! And the Marquee tool.

somethingSTRANGE

Participant

To add insult to injury, they taunts us by actually leaving the disabled menu item visible.

"Yeah, we know you loved it how it used to work, so we'll let you look at it for a bit longer."

"No pixels for you!"

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lifeafterdope

Participant

I HATE that adobe made this change. Messed up my entire workflow.

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Jeffrey.K

Participant

Just adding another negative vote here. Just saw this today. So now EVERY line is on it's own layer and the stupid properties dialogue box pops up every time I draw one of these lines. <sigh> I understand the need for generated lines like this but removing the pixel option is just a kick in the teeth for those of us who used it. I mean .... was it a huge support burden to keep that "feature" in Photoshop?

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miahelf

Participant

Wow, this is such a garbage change. Can't draw a straight line made of pixels anymore. Adobe lost touch with reality many years ago.

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