{"id":44915,"date":"2022-04-14T23:06:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T23:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/other-photo-softwares\/illustrator\/frequent-question-why-do-my-lines-disappear-in-illustrator\/"},"modified":"2022-04-14T23:06:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T23:06:42","slug":"frequent-question-why-do-my-lines-disappear-in-illustrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/other-photo-softwares\/illustrator\/frequent-question-why-do-my-lines-disappear-in-illustrator\/","title":{"rendered":"Frequent question: Why do my lines disappear in illustrator ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 Correct answer. Check your alignment in &#8220;Stroke Options.&#8221; If it is set to inside (the top setting) your stroke will not show.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Correspondingly, how do I make <strong>lines<\/strong> stay in Photoshop? Click and drag To constrain the line angle to a multiple of 45 degrees, hold down shift as you drag and draw the line.<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, why is my pen tool invisible in Photoshop? If the pen tool path is not visible, this is likely an issue with Photoshop&#8217;s display feedback and may affect other vector tools in the program. Some users have reported being able to fix the issue by turning the Layer&#8217;s visibility off and then on. The bug is also triggered when you rename the work path.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, how do I make my pen tool visible? <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Reset the pen tool.<\/li>\n<li>Go to Preferences Performance and ensure that Use Graphics Processor is turned on and that it shows your GPU.  <\/li>\n<li>Reset Preferences using Preferences >General >Reset Preferences on Quit then close and restart Photoshop.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Also, where is stroke options in Photoshop? <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Select the area in the image or a layer in the Layers panel.<\/li>\n<li>Choose Edit > Stroke (Outline) Selection.<\/li>\n<li>In the Stroke dialog box, set any of the following options, and then click OK to add the outline: Width. Specifies the width of the hard-edged outline.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Why Does the Photoshop Line Tool Stick on Arrow? There might be various reasons for why the Line Tool is not operating in the way that you would like it to. The most likely explanation is that you could have accidentally clicked on something whilst changing the settings of the tool at the top of the screen.<\/p>\n<h2>How do you use the line tool in Illustrator?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Found in the Tools panel (it looks like a diagonal line), the Line Segment tool allows you to draw straight paths with a few mouse clicks. You can also select it by pressing the  key. Choose the Line Segment tool and then move your cursor where you&#8217;d like the straight line to start.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Why can&#8217;t I use the pen tool in Illustrator?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Go to the layers panel and make sure the Artwork layer is selected, rather than the Text layer. This solved my problem.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do you reset the pen tool in Photoshop?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:100%;height:420px;\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tm6V8k2uSLg\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Where is the pen tool in Photoshop?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>By default, the Pen Tool is located in the lower half of the Toolbar. If you click and hold on the Pen Tool in the Toolbar, you&#8217;ll see six separate Pen Tool options in both Photoshop CC 2018 and 2019 (if you&#8217;re using an older version of Photoshop, you may only see five Pen Tool options).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do you show a Pen line in Illustrator?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>To start with the Pen tool, select the Pen tool in the Toolbar and, in the Properties panel, set the stroke weight to 1 pt, the color to black, and the fill to none. To create straight lines with the Pen tool, click and release to create an anchor point.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do you show the Pen tool lines in Illustrator?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:100%;height:420px;\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tXpnKlUMZQA\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Why can&#8217;t I see my lines in Photoshop?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Check your alignment in &#8220;Stroke Options.&#8221; If it is set to inside (the top setting) your stroke will not show. In Photoshop pressing return will delete the line. That is normal. There&#8217;s no need to press return when drawing a line.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do you add a stroke in Illustrator?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:100%;height:420px;\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pmHCcMIJYMw\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do you add a stroke to an image in Illustrator?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Choose File > Place and select an image to place into Illustrator document. The image is selected. Open Appearance panel and from the Appearance panel flyout menu, choose Add New Stroke. With the Stroke highlighted in the Appearance panel, choose Effect > Path > Outline Object.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do you change the stroke in Illustrator?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Access the Illustrator Stroke panel by clicking the Stroke hyperlink in the Control panel. In the Stroke panel, you can choose to change the Width height by clicking and selecting a preset width from the Width drop-down menu, or you can type in a value.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Correct answer. Check your alignment in &#8220;Stroke Options.&#8221; If it is set to inside (the top setting) your stroke will not show. Correspondingly, how do I make lines stay in Photoshop? Click and drag To constrain the line angle to a multiple of 45 degrees, hold down shift as you drag and draw the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}