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

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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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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

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Thanks for replying so quickly. Without going into too many technical (or commercial-in-confidence) reasons, why is Photoshop the only Adobe product (in fact the only product fullstop) that I'm having this problem with? After Effects' UI is just as complex. Cinema 4D is even more complex. Neither have this problem with scale. I'm sure that there are quite a few loyal but frustrated 'Shoppers who would be grateful for any explanation (no matter how simple)

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

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Again, we are still working with Microsoft on the issues required to implement more flexible UI scaling on Windows.

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

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After the problem with CC 2014, I was looking forward to having this fixed.

Now I can have either a UI that is way too small, or way too large.

Would it be difficult to implement a 150% scaling? -seems the people actually want that option judging by the mood in here...

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Mervyn_Edwards

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Thank you for that - all fixed now

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

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MacOS has had UI scaling for several releases (since CS6), and it is automatically applied according to the OS scale factor for your display.

ssprengel

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PS / View / 200% should scale your documents, as will using the regular zoom function keys (on Windows this is Ctrl-minus and Ctrl-plus)

The UI 200% for Windows is for the menu fonts, not the document pixels which you can always zoom in on.

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

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Can someone tell me why this feature isn't available for iMac Retina 5k displays?

Eg 100px by 100px documents are miniscule on this monitor. Having the option for Photoshop to scale it up to 200%, so it looks like it would on a "normal" monitor, would be fabulous.

Is there any way?

ssprengel

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