Line Tool STILL broken

[dong59613834]

How is it that Line Tool is STILL broken with the lastest Photoshop update?

It's truly wonderful that someone in your team decided to get mathematical and insist that a line connects two points and doesn't have width.  However, Photoshop is an artist tool. Lines in art have width. 

How is it that such a fundamental problem with many complaints since it was broken with the Fall release doesn't get fixed?

Use cases:

• As an aerial photographer I want to use Photoshop to draw arrows and point to key areas in the photograph.
• As a technical writer I want to use Photoshop to draw arrows with adjacent numbers to point to features of a product.

And on and on and on.

[Guest]

Hi

This is a user to user forum so you're not really addressing Adobe here, you can of course add to this thread on the Adobe feedback forum

https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/photoshop/photoshop-220-where-is-line-weightwidth-and-p...

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Who do you think you are talking to? 

This is a user Forum, so you are not really addressing Adobe here, even though some Adobe employees thankfully have been dropping by.

If you want to add your vote to a Bug Report that has to be over on 

Photoshop Family

I do not contest that the change appears to have been unintentional and as such is a bug, but I fail to understand the problem it seems to cause to some. 

What is the problem with using Shape Layers with a Stroke instead of creating a pixel Layer? 

[dong59613834]

Until last Fall, and for a dozen years, you could draw arrows with style.  You could draw arrows that are 40 pixels wide.

Now, as you show in video, arrows in Photoshop are like Powerpoint lines with arrow heads.  Photoshop used to be better than Powerpoint.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

So set the intended width in the Options Bar before creating the Shape Layer … 

»Photoshop used to be better than Powerpoint« 

When has Photoshop been better at creating Powerpoint Presentations than Powerpoint? 

Is creating arrows the overriding measure of a program’s quality to you? 

[c.pfaffenbichler]

I do apologize, I see now that corners can appear in the arrow-head’s slopes above certain linewidths. 

But one could avoid that by increasing the arrowhead’s size …