P: Photoshop 22.0: Where is Line Weight/Width and Pixels options?

Please return pixel mode!

(And why is it greyed out and not completely removed?)

@mark_dahm  please mark this thread unsolved.

There is no solution for the removed pixel mode of line tool. It needs to be back exactly as it was. All workarounds are inferior.

"@mark_dahm you can use the brush tool with the shift key to draw a straight line of any width."  

Yes you can but you cannot see the resulting line in real time. You could say you can also draw with pen and paper or competing software. Both becoming more and more viable solutions day by day.

Bring back the pixel line tool, simple as that.

Why is this problem marked as solve once again when it is not? This happened too on the Adobe Community boards. 
Does it mean we should learn the new workflows Suggested and that’s all we get? 

@mark142840_dahm the majority of us Ps users know about the brush + shift feature. It's elemental and has been there for ages, like the line tool. The brush option is not the best tool for this, albeit that function has its own use.

Here are inefficiencies with the brush+shift:

Can't preview what you're doing. 

Less accuracy for parallel lines.

A visible dot at the starting point, due to stylus drag or low opacity overlap.

For demo purposes I created lines with brush+shift on white background to show you the visible starting point. 100% opacity and 40% opacity, and a few dragged points due to preferred drawing tablet sensitivity settings.

This example took longer than it would with a line tool because I needed to recreate the starting points a few times to get the angles more parallel. Imagine making hundreds of these with the brush and erasing starting points.

With the line tool in pixels mode, I create a point and drag to a precise location before letting go of the end and then release. I also used the bracket keys to edit line thickness quickly. It was quick and simple.

For jewelry retouching and any pixel drawing work, I want a clean precise pixel line, no mess, any angle, very quick.

@mark_dahm  just want to echo Andrew's point that the hold shift trick to make a pixel line really doesn't cut it to replace this tool in our everyday work.  Using that method, I have to constantly readjust and transform my lines immediately after laying them, unlike the previous line tool that let us rapidly lay down our ink lines.  To make it clear, this is NOT some niche use case only effecting a small demographic.  In our film and animation industry alone this heavily disrupts: Layout artists, background designers, concept artists, environment and prop designers etc.   Pretty much anyone who ever needs to make many precise raster lines efficiently needs that tool the way it was.   I'm very concerned, considering we are in the middle of preproduction on a animated feature for Disney plus, and our workflow relies heavily on the old line tool and its behavior.  At the moment, the whole studio (over 300 of us) are told to stick with the previous version of photoshop as a workaround, but how long will that solution last before Adobe forces us to upgrade?  Thanks for your replies and helping to ease our anxiety over this, I appreciate your engaging with us at least, it helps to know we are being heard.

The brush tool and shape line tool require extra steps to just draw a fricking line and interrupt  your work flow creativity. I edit comics and just need to draw lines to make odd shaped panels without wasting fracking time resizing brushes or rasterizing shapes. 

@mark142840_dahm, this works if you're willing to work blind without previewing the line before you lay it down to a raster layer. However, it doesn't make up for the interactivity of the original line tool where you could preview the line before committing it (when releasing the button). The ability to preview a line is like using a piece of string to plot orthogonals before committing to it.

*Phoebe_Herring , you can use the brush tool with the shift key to draw a straight line of any width. Click once to draw a spot on the canvas, hold down the shift key, move the cursor to where you want the line to end, then click.

There are other aspects of the earlier line tool behavior that don't have as easy of a workaround, but putting down a pixel layer of any width is still straight forward and possible.

Hello i am using photoshop 2021 and i can not for the life of me seem to be able to create a simple line as with all previous version of photoshop.

Everytime i try to use the tool to create a line, i get a big arrow created on the page, thee is not way to get it to create a line?