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Line Tool in Photoshop

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Line Tool in Photoshop

Introduction to Line Tool in Photoshop

Line tool helps Photoshop users to uses lines to compose and orient their artwork or objects for creating a clean and well-structured design layout and also a line tool can come in handy in various project areas from creating a simple line, adding a flow cart, add partition to the design document, for architectural drawing to creating design elements – a line tool caters all these and more.

This tool is also interesting with its properties which are well described further in the content. For the student and the beginners of Photoshop usage, it is going to be very useful to know how a line tool is used for different projects in industries. The line tool is used to draw lines, make a flow chart, divide workspace into an equal or adjustable number of splits, to draw civil, electrical and plumbing layouts for construction use and many more it just depends on the project we are using it for and it easy to use.

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How to use Line Tool?

Once Photoshop and Line toolhow to use line tool 1 form shape toolshow to use line tool 2 in the tools menu. Before starting to draw a line on the workspace check and configure its properties shush as Arrow if needed at start or end, lines length %, width % and concavity % of the arrows along with the weight of pixel count of the line. We can use different modes to show our line on the image with adjustment of opacity % of creating the line. Make sure the properties of the line which we are supposed to create are configured before drawing because after drawing we can change its properties instead we have to erase and re-draw the new line as required.

Long press on shift key from your keyboard helps in drawing straight lines from start to end accurately. Shift key technique can also be used to draw 45 degrees angular arrows in any direction as per your mouse curser ends. This trick helps in drawing layouts, article boundaries on newspapers, engineer technical drawings and many more.

Arrowheads can be set as required before drawing. There are 4 types of arrowhead setting with our arrows just a line, the arrow only at the start of the line, arrows on both sides of the line and arrow at the end of the line. Below are the examples for all of them.

line tool 1

Few more advanced options are Mode, Opacity and Anti Alias. Modes help in creating line and creating linear hallow (erase) on the layer users must test all the layers to get the idea when to use them effectively. Opacity deals with the visual display appearing of the line based on the % set. Anti-alias must always be turned on because it helps in non-pixel rating the color of the line drawn to other pixels which affect the quality of the image.

Steps with screenshots

  • After opening Photoshop “U” is the hotkey to activate shape tools and select line tool. To make the line on the work area. The tool is located below the text tool in the tool menu bar. This contains all the other shaping tools in the hub. Once after selecting the line tool the properties of line tool will be displayed on the top menu bar of the application.

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  • Click the dropdown arrow to get the arrowhead properties list for the line. We can configure them as required based on the demand. Make sure the line properties are configured before drawing because the first time doing right is more accurate than alternating the design using other tools.

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  • We have Line propertied, Weight pixel configuration as per count of pixels can be done. We can set modes of the line as needed, use opacity if required, and activate Anti-alias to avoid line pixel blur issues at boundaries of creating a line with enriches the quality of work done.

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  • Let’s try line using shift key without any arrows, start and end line by dragging the mouse courser from start to endpoints to draw a straight line. Using shift straight lines can be drawn with 45 degrees angle displacement towards any side of the work area.
  • Hand-free drawing can also be done without using the shift key which leads to change in pixilation which is not recommended by many professional users of Photoshop.

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  • Line with an arrowhead at the start with the required width, length, and concavity. We can see the start of the arrowhead is active.

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  • The line is drawn with both directions arrowheads we can see both start and end are active before drawing the line. Similarly, we can turn off the start arrowhead and draw only the end arrowhead to the line.

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  • Different lines are drawn using differ % of concavity.

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  • Activating anti-alias helps in avoiding line pixilation at the edges of the line.

anti alias

  • The opacity of the lines drawn can be set for reference boundaries.

opacity

  • Modes help in getting solid lines, erase data in the shape of the line, etc.

modes

  • The weight of the line is nothing but the occupancy of line pixel count while drawing on the workspace.

weight of line

Conclusion

The line tool in Photoshop is very effective in use by much professional need like newspaper making, texturing for gaming and characters in VFX, and many more other project demands can be fulfilled by the line tool with good quality. The practice is also much needed for every Photoshop professionals this is going to help users to know how to use the Line tool in Photoshop with trying different properties and attribution changes of the line. Making interesting things and bringing imaginations to reality can only be done by an artist who uses Photoshop and its tools. Use the line tool and explore your experience in making the best visual outputs.

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