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3. Basics of PhotoLine

## 3.7 The Line Editor

The line editor allows to change the visual appearance of lines.

The most common property is the Line Width. This value adjusts the thickness of a line. 0 represents a hair line. A hair line is - regardless of the current magnification - always exact 1 pixel wide.

Line Join defines the how the strokes of a line are joined. You can choose between "pointed", "round" and "flat".

The appearance of the Line Ends can be square, round, square with offset and arrow. If you choose the arrow, you can change its Width and Length relative to the line width. If Min. Size is turned on, the arrows will always be drawn with a minimum size of 8 pixels. Hair lines always use this minimum size.

Beside that there is a field, that can be opened by clicking. This field allows to choose a line pattern.

Below the Line Width there is a preview field, that shows the result for the current settings.

Line styles which are used more often can be dragged to the list field at the bottom of the editor. There you can call them off by simply clicking on one of them. The list field is also displayed by right-clicking (Windows) respectively by Ctrl+click (Mac OS) a line style field. This way you have fast access to the most common used line styles.