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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!

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.

339 replies

Participant
November 19, 2014
Yes, 150% would be better for 27" 2560x1440. Some work areas/dialog boxes exceed screen size and cannot be re-sized. 'Save for Web' is one of them. Would like Bridge to allow larger fonts as well.
SG...
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
November 17, 2014
Hi Eric,

The feature update is not available to the perpetual Ps CS6 version, sorry.

You can read more about support for 200% scaling on Windows in this post too:
http://blogs.adobe.com/crawlspace/201...

regards,
steve
SG...
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
November 17, 2014
Hi Eric,

The feature update is not available to the perpetual Ps CS6 version, sorry.

You can read more about support for 200% scaling on Windows in this post too:
http://blogs.adobe.com/crawlspace/201...

regards,
steve
Inspiring
November 17, 2014
Where can I download this? I'm running CS6 standalone; not CC. Does that matter?
Inspiring
November 10, 2014
Just awesome on my 3200x1800 13.3in notebook ... can't wait for this option in the rest of Creative Suite (mainly After Effects, Premiere, Media Encoder and Dreamweaver)
Inspiring
November 1, 2014
This is still ABSURD. Is everyone missing the elephant in the room here? Adobe has completely IGNORED software standards.

Every program "should be" inheriting my system settings. That means when Surface is set to 175% font sizes and my desktop is set to 200% that Adobe programs should inherit this.

Simple as that. This should not be an "experimental" feature.

This has been on the Adobe feature request for 5 years, FIX THE FONT SIZES. The menus in every program and especially the absurd 7pt spell check font in inDesign.

How does this topic make me feel? Like a fool who has been "investing" in Adobe since Flash was owned by Macromedia...
Inspiring
October 22, 2014
That's because those features were not added until CC 2014, which is two major versions beyond CS6.
Inspiring
October 22, 2014
I installed the photoshop CS6 extended on surface pro 3 and found "experimental features" menu missing. I need that menu to scale up the UI. Thanks.
Inspiring
October 16, 2014
Elements 13 includes UI scaling on Windows.
Inspiring
October 16, 2014
Yes, ACR and some other teams are still catching up on the Windows UI scaling work started in Photoshop.