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Drawing a line

New Here ,
Mar 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023

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When I try to draw a line on my desktop computer it creates an arrow. I can't seem to get out of it.

I have un-installed Photoshop twice, no helped.

Works fine on my laptop and tablet.

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Mar 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023

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Can you post a screeenshot of this?

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Mar 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023

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If you're using the Line tool, check the settings in the cogwheel menu in the Option bar:

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Mar 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023

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The settings are shown in your image. I unchecked Live Shapes and Start. No change.

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Mar 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023

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The only thing that worked was I was able to change the color.

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Mar 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023

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Can you show us a screen shot of your Path Options panel?

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Do you realise that changing the settings, as in unchecking Arrowheads > Start and/or End will only affect new lines?  Lines already drawn can not be changed.

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New Here ,
Mar 15, 2023 Mar 15, 2023

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Box settings look just like the one on my computer.

This all started on a new computer. All the existing lines are ok. It's the new ones with the problem.

I re-installed Photoshop ne the arrow is gone and I draw a rectangle.

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Mar 15, 2023 Mar 15, 2023

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So are you all sorted now?  No more problems?

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Mar 17, 2023 Mar 17, 2023

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Nope, now all I can do is draw rectangles with the line tool. 

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Mar 17, 2023 Mar 17, 2023

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That's what the Line tool draws – rectangles, usually long, slender ones. Set the desired width of the lines in the Weight field of the Option Bar (see the pic I posted earlier).

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Mar 17, 2023 Mar 17, 2023

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The line tool is not particularly intuitive truth be told, and I have a feeling that very few people never find it confusing at one time or another.  The trick is to keep Fill enabled.  The settings in the Options bar below are for the lowermost line, which you might call a rectangle.  The line above it (third from top) used the same settings but with Fill set to black.

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When I said that the line tool can be confusing, I am mostly thinking of when the stroke is dashed.  There have been times when felt like bashing my head against the wall with a dashed outline.  The dashed rectangle below used exactly thew same settings as the last line above, but the stroke is set to Dashed.  Clicking More Options lets us choose dash length in pixels, and the gap in pixels.  Note that the line Weight has become greyed out.image.png

How are you doing now?

 

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Mar 18, 2023 Mar 18, 2023

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Please look at my settings.Untitled-1.jpg

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Mar 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023

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