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May 2, 2014

P: Introducing scale the UI 200% for high-density displays for Windows

  • May 2, 2014
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The Photoshop team welcomes your feedback on this experimental feature. Let us know what you think!
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Photoshop user interface controls may appear small and hard-to-read on high-density displays. Also, on touch-enabled screens, you may have trouble clicking the smaller controls. 200% scaling solves this issue by doubling the size of the user interface.

Since the user interface elements increase in size by 200%, depending on the size and resolution of your display, you may need to adjust the layout of existing workspaces. For example, on a 1080 px screen at 200%, the Tools panel extends off the bottom of the screen. You can change to double-column orientation in order to fit the panel on the screen.

Note: This feature is only for Windows users. HiDPI on Mac has been available for high-density Retina displays since Photoshop CS6.

Caveats

You may encounter some cosmetic issues while using this feature. While many Photoshop dialogs have been reworked so that they fit on the screen at 1080 px, viewing some dialogs (such as Smart Sharpen) completely may require you to collapse sections.

Disable 200% UI scaling

If you need to return to the default 100% scaling, do the following:

1. Select Preferences > Experimental Features.
2. Deselect Scale UI 200% For High-Density Displays (Windows Only).
3. Restart Photoshop.

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    rikjax
    Participant
    June 23, 2015
    Hi - all very well saying turn off UI scaling auto but as you can see from the screen shot that option seems to be disabled on my macbook

    Please help - photoshop now unusable and Ive got loads of work to do!!

    Thanks

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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 21, 2015
    That's only true even using native Windows controls, Win32 and WinForms which Photoshop doesn't use. Everything is custom in Photoshop which is why this problem exists.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 21, 2015
    The menu size is controlled by the OS settings, including the top level menu labels.
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    DaveWarrenPictureteam
    Known Participant
    June 21, 2015
    just updated to PS2015CC, now at 200% If I open image resize, the box doesn't fit onto my Dell 12" so I can't alter the values to re-size my images, so back to tiny fonts for me for the time being..........

    by the way Chris, I solved my file info problem by buying another program that allows scaling for caption information.
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    cyberwasp
    Inspiring
    June 21, 2015
    Chris, I think what everyone Is complaining about is not the text in the pull down menus but the original menu. If I use windows to change the size of the menus in windows everything changes except this:


    Although when you open file, edit, etc. the menu selections under those do indeed change.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 21, 2015
    Photoshop has 200% UI scaling for it's UI elements on Windows, and the menu size is controlled by the OS UI scaling controls (assuming you have 2014.2 or 2015).

    To make the menus larger, set the OS UI scaling controls to larger text for the menus.
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    Fungirl2009
    Participating Frequently
    June 20, 2015
    PS cc 2015 tiny menu issue

    Adobe pass the buck as so, so many say and they blame OS and MS etc (with respect Chris broken record going on way to long....)we are all sick of it..... I cannot use photoshop as I cannot read menus especially text do not need or use glasses and have to get right upto laptop monitor it hurts gives me headaches like many using this darn software now when before master collection days etc it was fine!
    (200% way to big)

    Countless forums all over the www folk wasting their time spending hours trying to get solution as I have no other software does this problem ( I have many) and other adobe products I have of which frankly I am about to dump now
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    cyberwasp
    Inspiring
    June 20, 2015
    Hey guys. Chris is not the bad guy. Adobe is working with Mickeysoft to try and find a solution for the problem. If you want to yell at someone try Microsoft as they keep changing things. Tell them to leave the stuff that works, alone!
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 20, 2015
    See previous answers. Photoshop is far from the only product encountering such issues with UI Scaling on Windows.
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    Loaker
    Participating Frequently
    June 20, 2015
    Someone told me that graphic scaling is probably one of the hardest things to accomplish on 4k+ displays. I hope they get it worked out also as I just bought one. And AOL is worse than PS 2015 by a mile.
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