Photoshop-Taper the ends of Line Tool?

[markdouglasgrant1]

Using only the Line Tool/Straight Line Tool in Photoshop 24.2 on Mac OS, can I taper the ends of the lines instead of them being blunt and square? Arrowheads setting will not do this.

[Ranjisha Sengupta]

Hi @markdouglasgrant1 

Thanks for reaching out.

Photoshop is a great tool to get all the creative imaginations to reality. The answer to your question is: Yes; In Photoshop, you can taper lines according to your wish. There are a lot of ways to achieve the results.

You can check this tutorial for more details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDQ2V6FwC7I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlKoZ_xAr98

Let us know how it goes.

Best,

Ranjisha

[markdouglasgrant1]

Thank you but not what I asked -- "Using only the Line Tool/Straight Line Tool" 

[Mike_Gondek]

Best you can do is roudn the edges, ntoy a pointy taper.

You could use the line tool to draw a vector path, and then change your brush setting to taper by setting fade in the brush settings.

I don't like that as is hard to guess how many pixels to set and takes alot of back and forth. I would recommend you do in Illustrator, copy and paste it into photoshop.

[Mike_Gondek · Accepted solution]

Actually, you can do it with arrowheads with the right settings

In Illustrator use stroke profile

[jane-e]

@markdouglasgrant1 

I can't think of any way to do this in Photoshop, but Illustrator does it quite easily.

In Illustrator. you use the Width tool  (Shift+W) and add a width point as wide or as narrow as you desire to the middle of the path. Then you double-click the top anchor point and set the total width to zero. Repeat for the bottom anchor point.

Photoshop excels at image editing with some drawing ability. Illustrator excels at drawing with close to zero image editing.

Jane