Restore Pixel Mode to the Line Tool

I am an architectural illustrator that has been using Photoshop since version one. I have taught PS at the college level for 12 years, and for the first time in 30 years I am considering ditching PS. Disabling the pixels on the line tool feels like a slap in the face from Adobe - even more so their resistance to changing it back. What next? Axing blending modes? Will I be able to rely on PS current features in the future? Please fix this to restore our faith that you care about the community if nothing else.

For those asking for the tool to be changed back. 

As explained by Jane in her earlier post. This forum is answered by volunteer users. We do not work for Adobe and cannot change anything back. The forum to make such requests, where Adobe developers will see them, was linked by Jane but here it is again.  https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/photoshop/photoshop-220-where-is-line-weightwidth-and-pixels-options/5f9039ee917fbb3a9931cc53

Posting in this forum asking for such a change, may get it off your chest but it will achieve nothing.

Dave

This is one of the stupidest 'improvements' I could fathom.  However, for anyone looking for a quick, simple workaround that is almost as easy as the pixel line tool - just create a round brush preset at whatever pixel size you want your line.  Make sure to turn off any shape or transfer pressure settings.  Then just click (or tap), hold shift, then click(or tap) again to create a line between your 2 click points. Only problem is if you want to undo the line, you have to undo twice for both pen clicks. Save your brush preset and you have your own custom line tools and can even create a whole folder at different  pixel diameters.

Yes, bring it back!

Adobe, please stop messing with things that just cause us to waste time.  If you want to add fancy new features by all means do it and then MAKE THEM OPTIONAL ADD ONS instead of forcing us to become unproductive.  I am going back to Photoshop 20 so I can draw a line - wow how hard should that be?  I do not want or need Photoshop 21 that gets rid of basic things like drawing a line with a line tool in pixels.  Please listent to your users, thank you.

Totally agree.

I believe that Adobe didn't realize how important this feature was for its users when they decided to remove from Photoshop.

So we're doing our part, as users, and giving you this feedback: the pixel option for the Line Tool is very important for our relation with the software and it's absence has slowed us down very much. 

Sometimes we don't need something fancy, we just want something easy, fast and reliable. Whick you have just removed.

Sure, it would be nice to having more options and possibilities to our lines, but just as long we can still have a simple, rasterized way, of quick doing it. 

Please, add it back. 

Oher than having our product back, it would be nice to buy from a company that actually listen to its consumers. 

"I really don’t think we’re going to cease pestering you and your team until you restore pixel mode to the line tool."

Hi @Dave Arcade 

This is a user-to-user forum answered mainly by volunteers. You can add to this thread where the Adobe developers will see your comments:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/photoshop/photoshop-220-where-is-the-line-weightwidth-option/5f9039ee917fbb3a9931cc53

@Ciellchan , you mentioned Adobe Fresco and @KazVorpal , you mention three non-Adobe programs. I have been curious: do these programs create rectangles instead of lines as Photoshop did until this version? And do they create vector or pixel lines?

~ Jane

I agree. I'm a professional graphic artist with clients in both media and politics, as well as a consultant both corporate and private, and I have already run into more than one task where this change breaks my workflow. Aside from having wasted a huge amount of time even figuring out how the new system "works", and workarounds for what I need to do.

This change — and the way Adobe marked the problem as solved simply by telling us "it's not a bug, we did it on purpose, so you guys can suck it" (in slightly different words) — is why I'm trying out three alternatives to Photoshop:

• Affinity (my favorite so far)
  • Pretty much everything Photoshop does, lacking only the recent bells and whistles that all do things that were already possible.
  • The complex range of tools is organized in a self-explanatory way that's easy to figure out
  • Believe it or not, faster and more stable than PS has been in the last year or two
• CLIP Studio
  • Interface is strongly similar to Photoshop
  • Largely the same tools, lacking nothing really important
• GIMP
  • Open source, been around for over twenty years
  • Not only does all the normal Photoshop stuff, but has a wide array of plugins that can do most of the rest, even a few things PS does not. This is thanks to it being open source since the mid nineties.
  • Free. Because open source. But worth a separate mention.

Backing you here.

Adobe is forcing 2D artists who does not rely on vector graphic out of PS. That's all I'm getting from this issue. 
They either want to move us to Fresco or have no intention on cater to our industry anymore.
This is hitting all kind of productions from animation to print media. I work for a well known company doing comics and my workflow has been severly damaged by this move. 

They seem to be focusing on designers working with Adobe XD along with Photoshop, or at least that's all I got when reading several discussions here and at the photoshop official community. It's been almost a month now, we got a PS update a few days ago and this issues hasn't even been officially addressed. 

If not addressed I believe many of us will be forced to move to another software as Fresco it's still pretty much in diapers to cater to this industry. At least for me it's nowhere near to photoshop regarding color profiles, filters, gradients and so on.