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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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    happynikon
    happynikon
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    February 9, 2015
    It's a TV on HTPC, not on monitor. Computer monitors are different in pixel size.
    ssprengel
    ssprengel
    Inspiring
    February 9, 2015
    I am 2-feet away from my 2-foot diagonal monitor. Why are you more than 4.5 feet away from your 4.5 foot monitor? The angle of view and the pixel sizes would be similar on the retina. Is there some other consideration that requires pixels to be more than 1/4 the size on your retina because your monitor is 52"?

    CS6 was released May 2012, and was obsolete the moment CC was available June 2013. After that, the only work on CS6 was for licensing and allowing ACR to still run with it. Adobe still sells it as a courtesy for users who don't want the cloud, but that doesn't mean it's being actively updated, which is what my term obsolete refers to.

    Hopefully Adobe will be able to get cooperation out of Microsoft and have a more arbitrarily resizable interface, but it's not going to be in CS6, I'm sure of that.
    happynikon
    happynikon
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    February 9, 2015
    Well, for starters, sitting closer to 52" HDTV is not comfortable to the eyes and it's not a monitor. Maybe for a short time but not for an hour. And no, not using the CC '14. I would have preferred my HTPC as it is more than capable hardware compared to my laptop. And not every one has to fund to keep adding devices.

    I'm just looking at both sides and I do understand each person's vision and visual tolerance are different. CS6 is not obsolete and it came out at the time where high native res monitors are out. If the OS have adjustable DPI for fonts/icons, it seems an over sight that all adobe software don't have such features as it does serve a diverse population.

    You can't look this one sided as what works for you doesn't work for someone else. We are at an age in tech the things like this should be standard, rather than an addition. To those who are professional and buys this software would be glad to have this feature as an update, rather than upgrade.

    But then again, I'm just one of them small consumers so it doesn't really matter. It is what it is.
    ssprengel
    ssprengel
    Inspiring
    February 9, 2015
    I sit 2 feet away from a screen that is slightly less than half the diagonal of yours and I'm pretty sure if I sat 5 feet away from mine I'd have problems, too, and mine is only a 1.6K monitor, so no I'm not joking.

    I didn't see any other recent replies from you, so perhaps there is more information further up that I didn't see, but what is your 52" monitor's pixel dimensions? Is it a 4K or 5K monitor or just a standard HD 2K monitor?

    I don't have much patience for people complaining that their obsolete software isn't magically supporting their new hardware.

    Now, if you are using the current CC 2014.2 and it is slow, like others have complained about, then I'd have a more positive attitude about the issue being reported.
    happynikon
    happynikon
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    February 9, 2015
    Steve, read my comment again. Then think about what I said. If your respond is just to spite, it didn't work and you're not contributing.

    Chris, I know. Hence the move itself is as described. Business decisions has to be made right?
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    February 9, 2015
    Again, the new feature for UI Scaling by 200% was introduced in Photoshop CC 2014. Photoshop CS6 is two full versions behind the current release, and will not get new features.
    ssprengel
    ssprengel
    Inspiring
    February 8, 2015
    Sit closer? CS6 is not a video game. There are actually pixel-level details that are important.
    happynikon
    happynikon
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    February 8, 2015
    I reinstalled CS6 extended on my HTPC since it's a lot faster than my laptop along with SSD. But the font is way too small on a 52" monitor, sitting 12 feet away. And after reading all the consumer frustration, Adobe seems to sound like Activistion/Blizzard where the devs don't really care for the consumers.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    February 6, 2015
    Again, we are continuing to work with Microsoft on the issues that need to be resolved in order to allow more flexible UI scaling on Windows.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    February 5, 2015
    I agree with what others are saying - great to have this feature at last but.... I have a 25in 2560 x 1,440 display - 200dpi is too big and standard is too small. Please add 150% or even better - custom input!
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