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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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Aabh
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December 2, 2020

I agree with this.  Having been forced to use the pen version of the line tool, I've found ways to adjust my workflow to make it work (Like, do all of the lines at once, making 298 layers, then disabling the bottom layer and "merge visible" all of the drawing, which kills 297 layers and gives me my one line layer.  It's totally roundabout, and means I have to do all the LINES at once, instead of doing PARTS of my pictures, but it works. 

If I had the option to incorporate this slowly, I wouldn't have been so upset, but all of the tools are defaulting to pen mode (Including the square tool, though I CAN set squares back to pixels) Which means I have yet another tool that I have to "set up" before I use (I use the ruler tool all the time, but it defaults to the eye dropper, so every time I use the ruler tool, I have to first click the switch on the eye dropper) 

Right now I'm exceptionally mad at Adobe. I'm stuck in the "Creative Cloud needs to be reinstalled" loop and have been since July.  At the moment, I have to log in every time I use an Adobe app and if I walk away from my computer, Cloud can't find my authorization and closes my work.  So Adobe is already on my list. 

I applaud the company for making improvements, but Illustrator is for pen work... I use Photoshop for quick markup. I don't NEED pen tools there.  That's what I use Illustrator for.   ANYTHING that slows the process down for quick markup makes Photoshop less and less attractive for me.  I now have four or five "workarounds" to stop Photoshop from acting like Illustrator...

If you are going to merge them into the same program (Which would be okay), PLEASE have two different "modes" so those of us who live in the world of Raster can STAY there and not have to disable Vector tools every time we want to work in raster. 

And really, I STILL have the "rotate bug" (Where you click next to the rotate handles on an object and it scales instead of rotating, if you click it again it will rotate, but first you must scale, hit undo then do it again) and I've had that bug since CS6... and that STILL hasn't been fixed... 

I'd love it if the Photoshop team would spend their time repairing these little glitches that have been in the program SO LONG that I have a muscle memory workflow to go around them.

Participating Frequently
December 2, 2020

For the future versions Adobe: why don't you just default all "use legacy" option checkboxes that are already built in?  Make it this way user would have to enable sudden new behaviours...

 

Imagine if some Windows update suddenly decided to move cursor left if you moved your mouse to right. This is pretty much how disruptive PS updates feel when you have the software in your muscle memory. 

lukeb34835997
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December 1, 2020

@drk Just a heads up that there is a checkbox in the general preferences menu that allows you to use "Legacy transform" options and will keep the transform option as it was.  Unless I'm missing something and they removed that checkbox from future versions?

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December 1, 2020

I forgot to include that I used the line tool in my channel masks, so this whole new line tool deal with new layers doesn't work. This is so counterproductive. I need to mask text quickly for retouching. The alphabet has a lot of little lines, who knew? Please bring this functionality back quickly. As it was before, no fancy stuff, just as it was. I was waiting a little bit before rolling back a version to see PS would bring it back soon, but no. I'll have to go back cause this isn't working for my workflow.

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December 1, 2020

@Cyrille Poussin  lol for the new PS line redesign debacle, I immediately thought of the Stop Sign Redesign sketch:

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ReneDamkot
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December 1, 2020
Who cares about a 'leaderboard'?
Ciellchan
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December 1, 2020

In 2 weeks we are hitting 2 months. 

We are customers who pay monthly for a product, we should get at least a weekly update on this matter or an estimate delivery date for the final fix. 


I have never complaint about anything and been using photoshop for more than 10 years now, I feel so disappointed on the lack of communication and in how they ruined my entire workflow with this totally unexpected change. This matter needs to be addressed with more than just an “acknowledged” tag. 

trent_reker
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December 1, 2020

weeks later....

 

maybe if [removed by moderator], @mark_dahm and stop [removed by moderator] what wasn't broken.

 

i go to use the line tool and.... nothing.  choose the pixels.  zero. [removed by moderator]

trent_reker
Participating Frequently
December 1, 2020

 

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trent_reker
Participating Frequently
December 1, 2020

waiting...

 

five weeks.  no fix.

 

how can you people [removed by moderator] what was perfectly fine?  adobe does this far too often.  so [removed by moderator] tired of trying to figure out why something doesn't work every time an update occurs.