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

 I am a layout supervisor on an animated preschool show. My team and I use the pixel line tool constantly - as many have stated, its a tool that is a major part of animation background design workflow. To remove it for no valid reason, rather than leaving it as a legacy option is frankly, ridiculous and tone deaf to the users of your product! Please put out a fix for this ASAP, Adobe. 

Adobe broke the line shape tool when they removed line weight. The Line Shape tool can only create arrowhead Shape layers. You have to use the rectangle shape tool to create line weight shape layers. Use both tool and merge the two shape layers to create shape layer with arrowheads you want. For if you Stroke the Arrow Shape Layers the arrow line stroke will be a 0x wide stroke line,  or a 1x wide stroke line or a 2x wide stroke line.  None of these will be the arrow shape layer you want. For only 0x wide line arrow layer arrowheads point to the correct location you do not an arrow shaft you have been shafted. 

Zero is hard to deal with in math. You can not divide by zero its an invalid operation and if you multiply be zero it navigates what you had you wind up with nothing  it deletes what you had. 

So a zero width path has no inside or outside for you have zero you have nothing there can be no inside or outside  or center.  The Reason the Line tool did nothing for me was Adobe installer migrated my Photoshop 2020 preferences  and my preference was set to stroke inside.   Adobe failed to realize a zero weight path has no inside center or outside.  Only the Paths can be stroked a setting stroke inside or outside would be invalid. Photoshop should have generated an error message. Instead Adobe bug bit my work.  If my setting was stroke centered or outside a stroke would have been laid down correctly or incorrectly.   Adobe 2021 Line tool has a problem. 

Agree with this 100%.

It turns out because  Previous version of Photoshop the line tool has weight the acrions recorded are  good in in 2021.  You just can not record action actions in 2021 to create line shape layers because the Line tool in 2021 in shape node cans not seem to create shape layers. with strokes

Hi

The issue has been reported here

https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/photoshop-elements/line-tool-in-2021/5f8fcfca72a09d07dea819d0

Very sad, the line tool in pixel mode is part of my everyday workflow.

First, I am a professional graphic artist who freelances nationally, with clients in the entertainment industry and politics. I know how to use vector tools in both Photoshop and Illustrator. 

So when I say this is yet another mistake on Adobe's part, I'm not just some amateur who doesn't like to adapt and doesn't understand the sometimes-advantage of vector drawing. 

In fact, I use the line tool on shape instead of pixels about half the time.

But not only are there many times that pixels work better, but today I was trying to use it on vector, and the changes made it not only no longer intuitive, but not even heuristic; I couldn't quickly figure out the new way to do it.

I see this as part of an overall trend of less-intelligent bureaucrats running corporate committees making decisions that harm users, based on said committee's own arrogance and incompetence. They falsely imagine that they know better than the user, and should force the user to do things a certain way, against their will but for their own good.

Each time Android is updated, I lose features, to the point where I'm playing with self-installed Android on my older phone to see if I can just mod my own version open-source.

I recently stopped using Google Image Search because it's lost so many features...which are still available in Bing image search. 

Microsoft and Apple products are even worse about this. I've been using Linux since the nineties, but mainly for CLI server tasks...but recently I've started using it for GUI work as well, because of vanishing Windows features. 

Corporatism produces an unhealthy, political-class culture that does people more harm than good, and I think it's reaching a sort of snowball point.

The recent nonsense from Adobe are a prime example of this. There is a sort of collective insanity in trying to force users to do what some bureaucrat imagines to be best. "We have decided you're not smart enough to see this thing we errantly decided is false, so we've pulled it from your feed without your consent" is just the most obvious example of this mentality.

Which is always wrong.