P: Support scalable user interface UI for high resolution monitors

ok, how?

The UI font size is already changeable, and has been for a few versions.

I have this fear that a simple thing like making fonts large enough to actually read is going to cost us a whole bunch of money.

For Mac there is a retina supporting version of Photoshop now. Why is there no way to use the higher resolution icons and all on regular displays too. Not to heighten the resolution of each seen icon but to enlarge it? On my PC with a 2560x1450 27" display, all the menu bars and icons are pretty small and I really hoped the retina changes would me integrated in a way so you can increase the size of all the menu bars/icons, too.

Hi William, I assure you, they're not gone, though they may have been hidden/collapsed when the comments sections for replies become longer than 3. (see the 'view 3 more comments' link at the bottom of your reply above.

I made at least 5 posts here, and probably more, most of which were responding to those of others. All are gone now. I suppose two of them were "redacted" as I offered software alternatives in them. As for the many others, a system DC gremlin must have eaten them I suppose.

Hi Jeff, thanks elaborating
- for the FAQ, I kinda already knew the purposes - but I still have to poke a little *smiles*

However, I would totally and wholehearted chime in to be a beta tester!
Where do I sign up?

It's a multi-facited problem. Retina support is one aspect, the ability to display the UI at at enlarged factors is another (e.g make the text and icons 2x larger)

Retina support was added in within the past year (but note we didn't mark the thread implemented - as we still need to address some aspects of customers requests.)

We can't talk about specifics on future releases at this time. There are customers actively testing and giving us feedback on future releases in our beta program.

The faq I posted above gives a lot of good information on how we leverage customers input on this site. I've reposted the link here:

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...

Silly observation maybe... But if focus is on Retina displays, that's lovely, but it may not actually address the issue :

Option one is to detect and increase automagically based on screen rez - that's hard, and may not be user configurable.

Option two would be to have a selectable "level" with built in icons and the current scalable font option. So "simply" add a small medium and large level for icons?

Most people in here are not worried about "resolution" per say - they are worried about actual size of the UI icons and text... Photoshop allows font enlargement so that should rollover to AI, indesign, etc.

But the tool icons themselves seem to be the prevalent "request".

I may be misinterpreting what you're saying, but potentially having more pixel density in the icons is pretty, but not exactly an improvement right?
We don't "need" a highrez icon as much as we need a larger icon.

So when you say it's in the works, can you elaborate?
Can we chime in during the process rather than after?
When you say future support, what kind of timeline is that?
This thread is a year old, and a year ago staff said they were "looking into it".

3 comments were removed by another admin. 1 was spam, and 2, according to the notes, didn't conform to the community guidelines.

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...

We appreciate everyone's vote for this request. The topic is marked appropriately and the team has been actively working on future support for higher resolution displays.