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150% UI Scaling Option for Photoshop

Forum|Forum|11 years ago
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.

elibroftw

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If you're on windows (where your DPI is set at 150%), right-click on the photoshop .exe or shortcut, then click properties, then Compatibility, then Change high DPI settings, and then check the High DPI scaling override, and then put dropdown as System. Then click Ok, Ok, and enjoy.

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noirvision

Participant

Four years have passed and the issue has not been resolved. Ps 2020 (21.0.1 Release). Still same Auto / 100% / 200% UI scale. I do not want to use a 150% Display settings (Win 10 btw), I use 125% (OS Recommended). I also Change high DPI settings in my photoshop.exe file. All the same, or a microscopic interface or a giant one. We can save files to the Cloud, but we can not work with the naked eye )))

D Fosse

Community Expert

Don't do any of that! The UI scaling is now automatically picked up from the OS setting, in 25% increments. No action required whatsoever. Leave the setting on "Auto". The 200% setting there is just for people with older Windows versions.

If you expect the image to scale with the UI - don't know if you do or don't, just saying - it will not and it should not. The image window needs to maintain independent scaling from the UI, so that at 100% one image pixel is still represented by one screen pixel. This is what made 4K support in Photoshop much more complicated than in other applications.

In short, the issue has been resolved a long time ago, and it has been working flawlessly and seamlessly ever since. Very few people have complained about this function and those who do, generally misunderstand how it's supposed to work.

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auxiliaryjoel

Inspiring

this is still an issue, on Mac, latest version of CC updates.

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deaddreger

Participant

It's almost 2019, they just did an update and actually mentioned UI scaling feature. Here we are several years later and still no 150%!

100% is still way too small, and 200% way too big. Auto UI scaling does nothing for me, and changing the font does nothing for me, only setting the scaling to 100 or 200% works and 200% is ridiculously too large that it's unusable.

Please, for my sanity and vision, add a 150% scale to the UI.

JJMack

Community Expert

If you are using windows Photoshop UI scaling issues were resolved in Windows 10 creators edition and Adobe CC 2018 version 19.1 is automatic and each of your displays are scaled using you window 10 scaling settings in 25% increment up to 400& so 150% is supported. In CC 2019 Adobe added some refinement I have not tried, It based on some text size you choose in you Photoshop CC2019 preferences. If you on an old version of windows I guess you will still have problems

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Paul-M

Legend

I had Photoshop cc 2018 64 bit installed on my 14 ich YOGA which seemed to the scaling right unfortunately some plugins don;t work ion the 64 bit so I had to install 32bit Photoshop CC 2018 and the interface/display is either way too big set at auto or 200% or way too small to work with at 100% .... Crazy .....

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D Fosse

Community Expert

That setting is irrelevant now, unless you run an old OS.

With an updated Win 10 OS, Photoshop picks up the system setting for UI scaling. Don't do anything in Photoshop.

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Paul-M

Legend

I have 32biit and 64biit versions of Photoshop CC 2018 installed and the scaling is wrong on the 32 bit version. That's a fact, I'm not making it up

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chaggygirl

Participant

Me too. I agree- Need 150% UI interface for Adobe Photoshop CC 2018.

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tommasov89

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After last update this issue is resolved. Now super-sharp with 150% Windows Scaling. So HAPPY!!!

Adobe Photoshop: 19.1.0 20180116.r.238

Set automatic in photoshop scaling options

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amyt2150532

Participant

I did the Photoshop update last night and that fixed my problem. Now All adobe needs to do is fix Illustrator and InDesign.

D Fosse

Correct answer

Community Expert

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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gomi_at

Participating Frequently

Note - all updates in Windows are done...
Note - Nothing has changed

davescm

Community Expert

Have you set the scale in Windows > Settings > System >Display ?

Photoshop will pick up its UI scaling from there

Dave

JJMack

Community Expert

The creative cloud Desktop shows I'm up to date. And I see the some of the bugs the were in CC 2018 have been fixed. However, I only see auto, 100% and 200% UI options. Can you capture your CC 2018 Preferences interface and show the pull down options you see,

JJMack

donbarrum

Inspiring

I have the same Preferences as you but Photoshop doesnt use those settings. I can absilutely 100% confirm that I got HiDPI on one screen and rescaled for the other. Probably the option is there in Preferences for those that hasn't got the latest windows version, which had a lot of UI updates.

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Paul-M

Legend

With Windows 10 anniversary edition and Photoshop CC 2018 version 19.1.1 and newer Photoshop UI scaling works no registry hacks or Windows 10 overrides are required.

Not true. I have the latest versons of both 32 bit & 64 bit Photoshop installed on a fully up to date Windows 10 system and the 32 bit version was not scaling correctly.

Paul-M - Community Expert

donbarrum

Inspiring

Just to inform everyone, the latest update to CC 2018.1 which came out yesterday has the new HiDPI UI implemented correctly. Now everything seems to be fixed and we can put this discussion to rest! Finally!

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vincentd39784015

Participant

The update from yesterday only GAVE me the problem when I didn't have it before. Now everything is way too small on 100% and auto, and way too big and messed up on 200%.

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