P: Support scalable user interface UI for high resolution monitors

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I agree. I can't see the small type in Photoshop and there is no way to adjust it. Adobe needs to respect their customers more and make this correction.

A lot of the responses, including from Adobe people, have centered around the fact that a 30" 2560x1600 is, at 100 DPI, not a high-density screen like the Retina.

This is true, and if I had a 100 DPI 15-17" laptop I would likely not be having problems.

You're overlooking that one must sit quite a bit farther away from a 30" screen to see everything without turning one's head. Additionally, for me at least, sitting too close causes headaches. I like to be at least the monitor's diagonal away from it (30" from a 30" screen, for example).

Hello Chris Cox,

I see now that I've failed to properly update!! I'm doing so right now. My apologies for my original comment, I obviously didn't read and research my issue throughly enough. Thanks very much for the reminder in your post.

As far as the quarter inch icons are concerned, I'm probably much too far from my monitor at times. With eyes ~20 inches from the screen I can still make them out, indeed. I'm excited to have the option to adjust the UI for those times when I'm further from my monitor due to not currently having proper office furniture.

Please know that I had no intent to offend or frustrate, especially with my opening remark. I should have chosen my words more carefully and read about the issue more throughly before contributing to the conversation. I'm sorry.

Thanks so much.
-Paloma

What release? CS6.? or CS7.? Or when?

What does that have to do with Paloma's post or my response?
It really sounds like you are confusing large displays (like Paloma's iMac) with high resolution displays (like the retina displays).
And why do you seem to think that we aren't addressing this when we've already said (and SHOWN) that we are?

Yet another non-answer, answer. The icons are too small when they are displayed on high resolution monitors, which for professinals is the norm. Do you realy think that we are going to spend a lot of money on software and then display the UI on a cheap, low/medium resolution monitor?

A quarter inch icon should be visible assuming you have proper corrective lenses. The display you are referring to is still about 100 dpi -- aka "normal" resolution. And we already released some scalable UI for Macintosh with the 13.0.2/13.1 release.

The remaining problems are for people with really bad vision, and scalable UI on Windows -- that's why this topic is still marked "under consideration" instead of "implemented".

You should also note that the Photoshop engineers are mostly in their 40s with corrective lenses, reading glasses, bifocals, etc. And we use Photoshop daily on normal and high resolution displays.

Thanks Paloma. Seems like Adobe has written off the over 50 crowd, perhaps actuarial tables imply that we're low marketing potential as repeat customers.

However, when the young and talented are dissatisfied......well, who Do they care about?

Hello,

I'm a fairly young person with pretty good vision. I have astigmatism which only effects my vision of objects very far away. I'm in a creative field and use photoshop and illustrator every day. Your software isn't just important to me, its how I feed and clothe myself.

I've got a nice big shiny iMac with a native screen size of 2560 x 1440, which makes working on my artwork so much better. However, I can't make out the UI of Illustrator and Photoshop without staining or staying closer to my monitor then I'd like to be. The icons are so teeny tiny! The tools themselves end up about a quarter inch on one side, and most buttons smaller then that.

I do get around well enough simply by memory and what I can make out. Anchor points, however, are a nightmare. I've used preferences to make them as large as possible and even then, they can be difficult to select.

I appreciate a neat organized screen as much as the next person, but if someone with average vision like me can't make things out easily, it must be awful for those worse off. I'm sure it will take a lot of work, but please consider making more UI size options. Until then I'll do my best to take care of my eyes!

Thank you,
Paloma