Photoshop PIXEL line tool

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December 10, 2020
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Where is my pixel line tool? It's there, but greyed out.

I'm a professional concept artist and designer and have been using photoshop for decades. I absolutely need the photoshop pixel line. It's useful for a million things, like drawing perspective lines, adding a harder edge to a vehicle, drawing buildings... If you had consulted with actual artists about your new line tool, you would realize that the barebones, basicness of the tool is what makes it so useful. ALL OF MY COWORKERS ABSOLUTELY HATE THE CHANGE. PLEASE, PLEASE bring it back!!! now i need to revert to an older version of PS in order to be as productive as I need to be. You did a bad thing.

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DCordes

Participant

Adobe broke it.

They even left in the pixel option greyed out for further aggravation. Thankfully, I have an older version on another system for just that purpose. What a waste.

I've used PSD since 1990. I’m looking into Affinity as a replacement. For concept work, the now broken line tool takes too long.

Nice work Adobe!

In reality, they could care less. IMO.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

If you have been using Photoshop so long and can’t figure out a valid replacement for the Line Tool within Photoshop itself I wonder what exactly you are using it for.

Is it about the Arrowheads?

War Unicorn

Community Expert

Well...it's not *horrible* but it is confusing for those that used it the old way. I always have to remember to do this (in the Properties panel):

An inside alignment (and relatedly, a fill) only applies to when something like an arrowhead is activated. Lots of users get confused and frustrated because it defaults to inside, therefore only showing the path. I'm surprised it doesn't default to center.

beng36081917Author

Participant

Umpf. Thanks for the effort, but that sure is a lot of steps just to make a 1 pixel line. The easiest for now is to revert to 2020 and hopefully auto update doesn't kick back in. At least Adobe makes it easy to go between versions now.

Thanks again.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

»hopefully auto update doesn't kick back in«

If you don’t set it to auto-update then it should not auto-update.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

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

Anyway: What you seem to be desribing can easily be achieved with the Brush Tool by click/alt-clicking.

beng36081917Author

Participant

Yes thankfully there are work arounds, but that's not even close to the same functionality I am used to, nor is it as precise. I don't get why they would remove the functionality we are used to, leaving the option visible yet greyed out. Just turn it back on Adobe!

If this isn't the right place to post my grievances, please do suggest a better alternative.