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150% UI Scaling Option for Photoshop

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January 21, 2015
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I'd been trying to get some feedback from the guys at Adobe regarding this, but seems like no one has seen or heard this pleas. I'm currently using a Surface Pro 3 to work on Photoshop, and while I really appreciate the fact that Adobe introduced the 200% scaling option, it's really too big to do anything productively. It's definitely usable, but is it the best scaling? I would really hope 150% scaling option to be added as well. So we could toggle between it base on our preference.

What do you guys think?

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Correct answer D Fosse

The way this is supposed to work now, is that Photoshop UI scaling automatically follows the Windows setting, in 25% increments.

The crucial point is that the image window itself maintains independent scaling, so that 100% still means one image pixel represented by exactly one screen pixel. This is what's new, and this is what has been difficult to implement before. This is what took so long.

Note that this requires Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, and it does not work on Windows 7 or 8.

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edmundl65592352

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Just making sure everyone does know you can change it manually by clicking the percentage in the very lower left of the screen and typing your preferred setting.

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jayjapanb

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This is about UI scaling. Not the document zoom setting.

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Anonymous

At first I was the same but after using 100% @ 4k I hands down prefer it now and my eyes have gotten used to it. Plus the extra screenspace is great. When I seen 1920x1080 again I thought there was something wrong with the drivers or the monitor. Would be nice to see how 150% looks but think I'll be sticking with 100%.

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coroners

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This should be added asap =) 4k all that room and 200% feels like duplo. Please let us set the % value ourselves or add more stages like 100-125-150-200 at least. Pretty please! (can send Swedish Fish in return for immediate action and update). Will now try to modify my registry and hack my way to success .

D Fosse

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coroners wrote
4k all that room and 200% feels like duplo.

I'd just like to remind everyone that at 200% on a 4K display, the interface is exactly the same size as 100% on a traditional 1920 x 1200 display.

Nobody complained about duplo then...

Just goes to show how expectations change

Anyway, 150% scaling is currently in beta testing, and it shouldn't be too long. Most people really expected it in CC2018.

donbarrum

Inspiring

It's funny how people keep showing up trying to tell us what we are asking for isn't nescessary.
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For the record, what you are mentioning is NOT the reason at all why people are complaining...
So yet again I'll explain...
If I only had a 4K display it is NOT a problem. But, since Wacom doesn't deliver any larger cintiq displays in 4K yet, but usually you would buy a regular monitor now today with 4K, you need the programs to be able to adapt to both displays at the same time, agree?. Which the current photoshop Windows version does not. If you make the UI 200% for the 4K display you simply cannot work in Photoshpo on the Cintiq display, and if you keep it 100% so its workable on the Cintiq, the UI is super tiny on the 4K display. and the ironic thing here is that all other Adobe programs (including Photoshop on Mac) does this adaptation perfectly.

and the others that have complained here that doesn't talk about Dual display issues, they complain because they have hybrid screens, like around 3K resolution, which neither 200% or 100% works properly (you have to choose between tiny UI or menus going off the screen)....which a lot of newer laptops today has....

...SO, I'd just like to remind you, it's often good to read up on a thread before making assumptions and telling people how things are

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xam_xaman

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Hi Wong,

You are absolutely right. Though Adobe Photoshop CC has no option to change the 150 scaling at high DPI then we should use the system setting to kept it working as well. I think Adobe will resolve this issue as soon as possible. Surface Pro is really incredible device for graphic designing and of course Surface Dial is very much important digital tools which you can do anything on your designing. Let see hope for the best.

Regards-

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xam_xaman

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Hey Guys,

Good morning! I got a solution for this. Please follow the below instruction to get correct UI scaling with the system default scaling.

1. Open your Adobe Photoshop CC 2017

2. Go to >> Edit Menu >> Preferences >> Interface >> then select UI Scaling 100% >> then click OK to close the window.

3. Now go to Start menu >> Find the Photoshop icon and then right click on the icon and click Properties >> select Compatibility tab >> now enable "Override high DPI scaling behavior. Scaling performed by:" System

4. Now click Apply button then click OK button to close the window. Now again open the Adobe Photoshop CC 2017. Now you got the correct scaling with your system UI high DPI.

Hope you enjoy the solution.

donbarrum

Inspiring

Thanks...But we know of this workaround and it's mentioned before. This and similar workarounds is what makes it possible to keep working...But it is NOT a solution and you won't get HiDPI UI. Its low res UI scaled up by the OS. But thanks for the suggestion.

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xam_xaman

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Though Adobe Photoshop CC has no option to change the 150 scaling at high DPI then we should use the system setting to kept it working as well. I think Adobe will resolve this issue as soon as possible. Let see hope for the best.

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xam_xaman

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Hey Guys,

Good morning! I got a solution for this. Please follow the below instruction to get correct UI scaling with the system default scaling.

1. Open your Adobe Photoshop CC 2017

2. Go to >> Edit Menu >> Preferences >> Interface >> then select UI Scaling 100% >> then click OK to close the window.

3. Now go to Start menu >> Find the Photoshop icon and then right click on the icon and click Properties >> select Compatibility tab >> now enable "Override high DPI scaling behavior. Scaling performed by:" System

4. Now click Apply button then click OK button to close the window. Now again open the Adobe Photoshop CC 2017. Now you got the correct scaling with your system UI high DPI.

Hope you enjoy the solution.

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Anonymous

I totally agree, these new settings have spoiled my experience when using Photoshop!!!!

JJMack

Community Expert

Then why use them? You appended to a two year old thread about the Surfack Pro 3 which does not have a displays that can be scaled 200% for it does not meet Photoshop Display requirements scaled 200%. Adobe bug scales it 2X you need to set UI scaling to 100%. You can use windows 10 to scale it 150% and override Application scaling use System (Enhanced instead). Set the display to be scaled 150% by Windows. Whatever Photoshop Displays will be scaled 150% by Windows (UI and Image). The surface Pro 3 display will be very useable with Photoshop.

JJMack

Dabatross

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If you read the other posts above you'd see that adobe released a prelease version of PS 2018 that has UI scaling on it which fixes these problems.

mahmoudd89714797

Participant

I was on prerelease and updated to CC 2018 today and the scaling doesn't seem to work anymore. Anyone else is having this problem?

donbarrum

Inspiring

They didn't include it in the new release. Its still under development apparently.

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gadwire

Participant

I agree. Illustrator sizes perfectly automatically - why can't Photoshop do this?

JJMack

Community Expert

Illustrator is not Photoshop and is a vector editor not a pixels editor. I do not use Illustrator and for all I knon its UI may be vector based or Adobe may simply use your OS Display scaling feature where Image and UI will both be scaled by your operating system.

Adobe is trying to scale UI and Image separately in Photoshop. It not east to to for Photoshop UI is scattered all over the place. Script create their own UI and Photoshop features like Liquify, ACR and other features have their own UI. Photoshop Image scaling is done and will alway be done by scaling your actual image to an image with a different number of pixels and display the scaled image not your actual image. If Photoshop used your OS display scaling your OS would scale the Image Adobe scaled as well as scaling Photoshop UI. Adobe would like you to be able to use your displays High resolution, Not have your OS to scale it to a lower resolution.

JJMack

LittleGreenDog

Participating Frequently

Thanks for the tip about the beta. I was dealing with Photoshop UI scaling issues too, on the Wacom Cintiq Companion 2. I finally wound up down-rezzing the 13-inch display to 1920 x 1080 to make it usable with PS. That's been fine but it's still a shame considering the native res of this tablet computer is 2560 x 1440.

Curious to see what the developers have in mind to address this.

D.R. Greenlaw - Artist/Partner, Little Green Dog | (Formerly Lead Digital Animator, DreamWorks Animation)

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