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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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Sylvanmist

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Just adding another voice to the 14 pages of people who are upset about this change. Using the line tool to quickly make..lines...is an essential part of any digital art program. Please put it back.

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tiborr79684737

Participant

This is an extremely bad decision on Adobe's side - you have extremely damaged my work process with this!

Put the option back!

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tiborr79684737

Participant

This feature was a fundamental thing that I am using in my daily workflow - you have just made me revert to an old version of photoshop - FIX THIS!!!

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Flobaby

Participating Frequently

Another voice here for giving us back the pixel option. Please!

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jordanz6481255

Participant

I rarely comment on on things like this, but making an exception in this case. Just putting in my vote that this is a step backward and that the pixel line functionality should be returned. With all the fancy stuff that photoshop can do this is such a fundamental funtion that is critical and obvious for basic drawing work flow.

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phillippark

Participating Frequently

Huge problem. Please allow pixels to be used with Line tool.

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TheGianca

Participant

That is not the correct answer mr Sahil Chawta: the correct answer is "Adobe decided it is what it is: suck it up".

In other words, Adobe has proven again it is tone-deaf to some of his users, as it is evident by this aloof thread (like many others before this one).

Adobe arbitrarily removed functionality that has been very useful for many years by many users, including me, a user since version Photoshop 1.04.

There are many things that I love about Photoshop: the main one that keeps me using it is the focus on being the best pixel manipulator out there, in spite of botched attempts to make it something else, like the pathetic 3D implementation, attempts that makes it more bloated year after year...

I'm already moving away from Photoshop for some tasks: if I want to do some inking or illustrations, I got ClipStudio Paint. Photoshop simply cannot handle thousands of brush strokes: it will choke after a while (I got a top workstation btw).

For better implementation of OpenColorIO and 32 bit images, I got Krita.

For iPad sketching, I got ClipStudio Paint and ProCreate.

I'm using Photoshop less and less every day... Sad, and not really my choice: some focus groups decided that for me..

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Untitled Image

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I gotta come back and say. I have needed the pixel, square end WYSWYG line tool every single time I have used photoshop in the last however it's been since this was updated. I'm just doing simple edits to assist with drawing I will do my hand. I just need to drop a quick plum bob in the format of a line or a quick diagonal here and there. I can't use it like it is now. I have tried and tried and I'm just dressing opening photoshop because of the stupid simple tool. I'm not a pro- I'm a student. I know the pro must be crawling up the walls.

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defaultroh1qh94q3bq

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Adobe destroyed the workflow in Illustrator years ago and now seems determined to do the same with Photoshop. A contant stream of unwanted updates and 'features' to justify the new cloud pricing models. Autodesk are the same and together, they're destroying pipeline efficiencies and making ceatives slaves to 'learning' when they should be 'creating'. I'm sick and tired of having to re-learn changed menu layouts and needlessly altered tools. We just want to efficiently produce digital art. This is a terrible retrograde step - bring back the pixel line tool and stop tweaking!

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JoeHoran

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Just wanted to hop on the "why tf did you change this adobe???" train.

I design UI and used the line shape tool all the time. I can no longer set the width of the drawn shape and don't want to use a stroke. Why tf did this change???

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VirtualNadre

Participant

even with extra steps I cannot achieve my objective of a simple arrow in pixle or even in shape.

Who ever in Adobe that had a brain fart about this change needs to start using photoshop and be in our shoes.

this is a very important tool for me and it is not acceptable to fix what is not broken.

KazVorpal

Participating Frequently

So it's not just I who find it harder to set a correctly-shaped arrowhead for a line?

Oh, the other day I realized that one stupid change they made in that department is:

Now you cannot make the arrowhead a percentage of the line size. I tried changing it from 32px to 250%, and it rejected it. We can ONLY configure the arrowhead in pixels, making it less dynamic and throwing in more steps when we're changing line thickness more than once per image.

And that's yet another completely unnecessary loss of feature.

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Dmox Power

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Just liked to say, that after 25 years of using photoshop this is one of adobe's most short-sighted updates. Almost up there with getting rid of Shift Transform and the Chris Cox favourite 'undo is not the same as step backwards' debacle. Fix please.

KazVorpal

Participating Frequently

Yes, their handling of free transform on shift was idiotic. From the beginning:

It was dumb for it to have defaulted to free transform in the first place.
They were right to regret having done so.

But once everyone was used to it, they were locked in, and no matter how much they wanted to, they never should've reversed it. They should only have added the option to reverse it in settings. For it to suddenly do the opposite without our being warned was lunacy.

To this day, I am absolutely certain that every once in a while I slightly mess up the aspect ratio of some layer because while I forget to NOT hold shift, my movements are precise enough that it LOOKS like the ratio was preserved. So then a font or image is slightly wrong in shape.

In that case, putting it back as an optional setting is not really a solution, though. I can't risk needing to work on another machine and getting it backward yet again. So I am stuck using the default, lest I continue to have the opposite habit.

As for undo/step backward, same problem:

It should've done step backward by default. Not because Illustrator did it (the obsession with making Photoshop work like its ugly kid sister is the reason we're in THIS mess, now), but because that's more like how undo works for EVERY major program. You can undo back through steps in all Office products, most programming IDEs, et cetera, via control-z.

But, having done it the stupid way and left it thus long enough for habits to develop, in a tool that takes years to master so that most of its users have BEEN using it for years, suddenly reversing it was beyond oblivious to the needs of the real world.

All three of these are examples of ivory tower dunderheadedness.

Of isolation from the needs of real life.

jane-e

Community Expert

"It should've done step backward by default."

@KazVorpal

When I started using Photoshop, no application had more than one undo, and it couldn't always be relied on. That's why we learned to save every time we did something right.

It was exciting when the History panel was added and for the first time we could step backwards in the history. How could Step Backward have possibly been the default when it didn't even exist in the early days of Photoshop?

Speaking only for myself, I cannot imagine going back to earlier versions of Photoshop and I look forward to the new features that we'll see in v2022.

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