Photoshop: Please let us change the Pen tool path size and color

Where is the change? All I want is a thicker line and larger anchor points. I can't see if a point is black or white or the plus and minus signs are visible. I just talked with text who said can't be done. Please someone post an easy work around. HOW HARD IS THIS PROBLEM TO FIX CONSIDERING THE NEW CURVATURE MUST HAVE TAKEN A YEAR TO DEVELOPE. DOES EVERY ONE AT ADOBE HAVE THE EYSIGHT OF THE 6 MILLION DOLLAR MAN?

There is a thicker line and it's much better than in previous versions.  What version of PS are you using?

If it helps, making sure the pen tool is selected, go to the top of the screen and click on the little cogwheel settings button.  You can set the stroke and colour values for the pen tool there.

with selection option the the wheel is greyed out. Only works with shapes. 

I have the latest version cc2109.

Try looking in Preferences> Guides, Grids, and Slices. (I know, not exactly intuitive). Almost at the bottom there's a Path option where you can set up to a 3 pixel width (and the anchors scale with it), as well as a color.

If you need to make changes to either line thickness or color on the fly, it's under the cog wheel on the Options bar when the Pen tool is selected, as Mr. Blacker said. Choose it as soon as you've selected the Pen tool, before you try click on anything else in the Options bar. It works for both Shape and Path.

If not, you may have some kind of corruption in your interface, and it would help if you showed a screenshot of the missing Cog Wheel option when either Path or Shape is selected in the Options bar.

Thanks for the advice. When I contacted Adobe they said I couldn't make it larger. I will try these suggestions. Hopefully were on the same page communication wise.

none of these ideas work and I have the latest version on cc. All these ideas are greyed out. one try was shape vs. path, I can get the wider outline with shape not with path. Adobe says I can't change the width of selection tool. If there is a work around I would love to find. I've tried adding adjustment layer and pushing to the extreme, might help in some circumstances but I would love to find a real solution.

You're not working with the Pen tool or one of its relatives (freeform, curvature)? What tool are you using?

I’m also baffled.

Make certain that the hardware acceleration in the menu bar is on, turn on and restart photoshop

After a mere 8 years, the Pen Tool can be adjusted. Nice to have the adjustment in a toolbar, as well as in Preferences. Now, let's have the options in a Contextual Menu! Thank you, Adobe (finally).

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU .I was on in a conversation with an official Adobe help line and after 20 minutes said it couldn't be done. Just love education.

Are you saying it was not having the GPU preference enabled that was preventing you from being able to set the Pen tool's preferences? It would help us all to troubleshoot in the future if we know if that's a potential issue.

Yes it was just clicking that box in preferences. Preferences - performance - to right of box - check mark "use graphics processor. Thanks again for the solution Ron

Thanks. I'm sure this will come up again with someone, maybe even me, since sometimes that gets turned off for no apparent reason. Mostly it's not a problem—99.9% of the time here— but occasionally, there's a hiccup when PS tries to decide if my GPU is any good or not.