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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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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 26, 2015
    Hi,

    150% would be the sweet spot for my Toshiba Kira (2560x1440).
    I hope you can add this scale to PS experimental features!

    Cheers,
    paulo
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 23, 2015
    Lightroom's UI is fundamentally different from Photoshop's, and much simpler than Photoshop's.
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    harefort
    Participant
    April 23, 2015
    Lightroom has a 150% (among others)
    Is Photoshop fundamentally different, or will these options come to Photoshop, too?
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    Esge01
    Participant
    April 22, 2015
    Agree entirely. It's like the new Lightroom 6 not having a 4k slidehsow video export feature. Just doesn't make sense.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 20, 2015



    I recently purchased a Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro and it came with an offer to subscribe to Adobe Creative Cloud with Lightroom and Photoshop, which I have taken. The problem is when I open the program on my Lenovo, the task icons are so small that I can't even see them. How do I fix this please?

    Danny.

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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 15, 2015
    Again, we are continuing to work with Microsoft to address the OS issues necessary to allow more flexible UI scaling on Windows.
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    DaveWarrenPictureteam
    Known Participant
    April 15, 2015
    Spot on Mike, you could not have put it any simpler or clearer.
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    Mike the frog
    Participant
    April 15, 2015
    I just got a medium sized (13 inch) Lenovo laptop with 3200 x 1800 resolution. The Adobe products I hoped to use are not easily useable on this machine in any convenient way. I can dumb down the resolution some but then most other applications have huge text so i end up changing resolution frequently which is a huge nuisance. I tried the experimental 200% feature and it is a big improvement for PS but I use BR and CR and LR most of the time so I definitely want this capability on all of those products. A slider that provides a range from 100 to about 250 would be a convenient implementation and a range that would meet almost everyone's needs that responded so far. I use a 27 inch Dell U2713 and all of the products work beautifully with native resolution but I need some help when on the road. Thats what the laptop is supposed to be for but it is hard to use it as is.
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    denniR
    Participating Frequently
    April 9, 2015
    Well there you have it! Thanks! I do appreciate the feedback.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 9, 2015
    Other apps have not - they are seeing a lot of bugs. That's why we (and some other large software development groups outside Adobe) have been working with Microsoft to address the problems in Windows UI scaling code.
    Also, Photoshop needs a lot more accuracy than many other apps in order to work correctly on high resolution displays.
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