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How do I get my line tool back?

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I did something and all of a sudden the only line tool I have available is an arrow. Can someone please help me find the line again? Or maybe there's a website where I can download a new TPL file?

Thanks!

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barbara_a7746676Correct answer

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Select the Line tool. Right click on the line tool icon on the left of the Options bar and choose Reset Tool.

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MargoDee

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Press SHIFT as you click and drag the line.

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mastix

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Great to have stumbled on your post. Adobe photoshop is everyday less and less intuitive. Who ever is responsible for making this UI more convoluted should be fired as we are many navigating this support forum more and more because things that should be self-explanatory with the UI are not . More steps involved and more complexity. Not a good future "path" for Adobe future.

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KTdehs

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Yes it's getting harder to use basic functions of the Adobe software we use every day. We shouldn't have to be Googling and YouTubing fixes for something as simple as drawing a line. Adobe, stop the madness!

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LizzGrace

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Hello,

I reset my line tool and everything and it's still limiting me to an arrow! Help!

Thank you,

Lizzie

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peterm52969353

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Thanks good question-good answer- that was so annoying!!

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Matt5C4D

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thanks!

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WillCrowther

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https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/143011/line-tool-not-working-in-adobe-photoshop-2021

If the issue is that you cannot find a line after you drew it with the new line tool, just set the line stroke to Center in the Properties menu.

If the line stroke is set to Inside it will not show. If it is set to Outstide, it will be 2px wide for a 1px stroke.

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Navwolf

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Since the latest Photoshop update I can't select 'Pixels' for my Line Tool. Only 'Shape' & 'Path' are live?

Any suggestions please?

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Anarchyjim

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Same problem. However you can just draw the Shape and then 'Rasterize Layer'. Same thing, but two steps instead of one. I've just wasted 40 minutes trying to draw a stupid line with arrows. Really not a good change. And just saying 'draw a rectangle' is not helpful. Since the rectangle doesn't have arrows.

To summarize what you need to do to get the same thing the old line tool did effortlessly:

- Unlike all other 'shapes', the Line tool creates a path, not a shape. It wasn't clear the 'shape' was a path that needed to be stroked. All other shapes need to be filled. Why even have the Path option in this case?
- So... Change both your Fill and Stroke colors to the color you want the line. It took me a while to figure out that the Stroke is what controls the line color and it defaults to black. Since I was on a black background, it was invisible (sort of).

- The Fill seems to only apply to the arrowheads. However, they are also always stroked unless you set Stroke to 0, but then the line disappears. So if you want the arrowhead to be a different color than the line, you need to draw the line and arrowheads seperately. Brilliant.
- If you want pixels (for applying layer styles or bc you think using a Shape for a line is stupidly complicated for drawing a line), as far as I can tell the only way to do it is to draw a shape layer then Rasterize Layer. If anyone has insight as to why the Pixels option is always grayed out, that'd be awesome info.

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