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

Forum|Forum|11 years ago
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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rflexible

Inspiring

Do the recent versions of PS automatically work with higher resolution lap top displays such as (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED- Backlit Touch Display?

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J453

Legend

The font size only adjusts the size of the font for the default scale. To get larger fonts and UI, you'd need the 200% scaling feature in more recent versions of Photoshop.

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rflexible

Inspiring

With CS6 that I've had for only about 1 year ,under preferences/interface the large option does not change the UI font size. It is still font size 2 and unreadable

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rflexible

Inspiring

I agree, when some of us bought CS6 it was much less than 4 years old

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

Inspiring

After preferances>interface, I do not see a UI scaling. Can only see IU font size and IU language where the font size is already at 'large'

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albasdad

Known Participant

Jeff,
Maybe Adobe you should take an example from Mercedes..or KitchenAid 😞
By the way, 4k monitors are not new - they existed 4 years ago as well but PS did not correctly supported the technology. So you'd be just fixing what should have been working before....just a customer's point of view and I am sure not being alone.

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J453

Legend

Hi Andre, CS6 is over 4 years old. Sorry, we are no longer providing updates for older products.

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albasdad

Known Participant

It would be somehow "Customer Friendly" if Adobe recognized the ones who are still running PS CS 6 on 4 k monitors and are straining their eyes to see the minuscule menus and retrofitted this UI fix to the previous (CS 6) version. But Adobe and Customer Friendly seem to be an oxymoron.

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J453

Legend

After the feature was complete, the control is now found under Preferences > Interface... UI Scaling.

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

Inspiring

CC 2014 how come do not see the experimental features and scale UI 200%

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