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Photoshop CC menu items are too small to be read.

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January 7, 2014
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I have installed Photoshop CC on my new laptop with a screen resolution of 3200 x 1800. The menu items and text on panel items on the program are so small I can barely read them. Any help would be appreciated.

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Correct answer Mylenium

There is no high-DPI support in Windows versions of Adobe products. You will have to lower the system's screen resolution to improve matters.

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allisonb83609373

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I followed a very detailed path of suggestions including an online video about changing the manifest file (no idea what that is, but managed to get through it all) for Adobe Photoshop - only to find when I was ready to save that file that I did not have administrator privileges to do so. In the end, I went back to the "Preferences" in Adobe Photoshop and, where I had already selected "Interface-->UI font size Large", I also changed "UI Scaling" to 200% from 100% - and it miraculously solved the problem.

c0untryg1rl

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Glad that worked for you, Allison!

On Tuesday, October 17, 2017, allisonb83609373 <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

lauras26196365

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Seriously! It has been 3.5 years since this has been going on and Adobe STILL has not corrected this? So because I have a higher screen resolution, I have to decrease what my computer is capable of doing so that they don't have to have a fix to their issue! Ridiculous that on a GRAPHICS program you have to have a lower screen resolution to use a GRAPHICS program!

c0untryg1rl

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Go to Edit>Preferences>Technology Previews
In that dialog, in the left panel, click Interface
Go down to Text section
There you can change UI Font Size to Large
You can also change UI Scaling to 200%

Restart Photoshop for the new settings to take effect
Experiment with those to get the best sizing for your screen resolution.
I set both (Large & 200%) on my laptop to get text I can read.

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allisonb83609373

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Just noticed this, countrygirl . Got tired of reading through all the help that wasn't helping, I guess. You are right.

Wanda Halpert

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I have the same problem on my new Microsoft Surface Pro. The Adobe software that I pay for monthly cannot be used as the menus and toolbar is too small to read. Crazy and silly that this has not been correct. Time to look elsewhere for compatible software on high res screens.

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robertb3050087

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Is there a fix for this yet????
Basic STANDARD (native) resolution of 1920x1080 on Windows 8 machines is EXTREMELY COMMON... c'mon ADOBE!!!

gwilliam

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When I change my resolution down to 1024x768 the font is still too small to read. Changing from 1920X1200 to low res, has no effect whatsoever. I can't even use Edge Animate, because I can't read the menus. Please fix this, or prepare to provide refunds to a lot of upset users.

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drabain

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Had the same problem with AutoCAD2014 and Photoshop C6. Searched internet and found this website that has a work about that works:

http://www.danantonielli.com/adobe-app-scaling-on-high-dpi-displays-fix/

Took me about 5 minutes and I now have it working with menu text the regular size

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spdev

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Has this been fixed yet? Even on 1080p monitors, the text for the dropdown menus on the top bar is way too small. It should correspond to the setting of font size you have set in Windows preferences but it's not. Any ideas on when this is going to be fixed?

lbhopkins

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I have the same problem but I noticed that Illustrator CC menus are displayed fine on the same screen. I took a screen capture of the 2 UIs side by side on my screen which has a resolution of 3840 x 2160. On this screen I cannot use Photoshop CC because the menus are simply too small to read but I can use illustrator CC with no problems because the menus appear to be double the size with this application. Why can't Photoshop CC be updated to work like Illustrator CC ?

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skandadesAuthor

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Exactly my problem. My screen res is 3200x1800 and the Adobe Photoshop menu items are too small to read. However I have no problem with my Adobe Lightroom menus. I was hoping that Adobe would solve this problem in one of their updates, but so far nothing.