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mattstix
mattstix
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January 23, 2018
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Jan 2018 update - UI scaling

  • January 23, 2018
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Can anyone help with the following? I've just updated Photoshop CC to the latest release and the UI in Ps has become significantly smaller. I don't want to change the Windows 10 display settings (currently scaled to 150% - the recommended size for my 4k screen).

Changing the Edit>Preferences>Interface>UI Scaling to 200% doesn't do anything even when I restart Photoshop.

Is there a way I can get back the scaling I was happily using until yesterday without changing my PC's general display settings?

I'm squinting to see what I am doing in Ps!

Thanks in advance

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EveryNameIsRejected
Participating Frequently
June 14, 2018

BTW, I've been wanting to use a high res monitor for years, but avoided buying anything higher than 1920 x 1080 because UI scaling is absolutely pathetic. There is no excuse for this issue to continue for so long. In fact it should have been fixed BEFORE final product release.

My contract for CC is up in a couple of months. I'm moving to Davinci Resolve until Adobe fixes such basic basic issues related to useability. I suspect that Adobe will ignore this issue until or unless they lose a massive number of clients. But if you keep paying, Adobe will keep laughing all the way to the bank.

Patagraham
Patagraham
Participant
June 6, 2018

Fix please, This is still a nightmare.

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    ejtentrepreneur
    Participant
    April 29, 2018

    I am returning a brand new HP 27er high performance monitor (sigh) and reverting back to a 10 year old 22" monitor so that I can use Adobe CC.  Not a big fan of online services, but was a big fan of adobe.  Now, Meh... seems like 1998 all over again.

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    harisg44090322
    Participant
    April 20, 2018

    same here...latest PS ver UI is WAY BIG and will not fit on 15in laptop with 4k screen ,running the commented 250 per cent scaling.

    Had no issues till I installed latest version...

    Lr on the other hand no issues, was scaling and still scales well...

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      Frank_L_Hawkins
      Known Participant
      April 16, 2018

      I found that the 32bit version of Photoshop CC 2018 UI scaling works fine set on Auto for my 4k display.

      However the 64bit version Photoshop CC 2018 UI scaliing does nothing at any setting and icons are impossibly tiny.

      I'm running Win 10 64

      Shameful lack of reponse by Adobe

      agatar40102869
      agatar40102869
      Participating Frequently
      February 25, 2018

      How can you mess up this badly? Completely not taking into consideration the fact that...I dunno, people have different screen resolutions?

      Everything on my mobile studio pro is tiny now just so Photoshop can be usable.

      It's ridiculous that it's been a month now and this hasn't been fixed.

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      RickyD55
      Inspiring
      February 5, 2018

      I'm sorry Adobe but this is an absolute disgrace!!!! When are you going to get this sorted!!!

      Its now more broken than ever. Doesn't seem to matter what setting I have in Windows I can't get Photoshop to scale its UI. At least at 200% I had some semblance of high DPI support.

      Why we can't just have a slider that lets one choose the scale factor you want or even if it worked like Illustrator and InDesign that would be ok.

      Get your finger out Adobe this just isn't good enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

        eduaurrai
        eduaurrai
        Participant
        January 31, 2018

        I had to roll back to the previous version.

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        grahamnelson
        Participant
        January 30, 2018

        The drop down menus are so small I would need a magnifying glass to view them on my main monitor (2560x1600)  .  One panel on my second monitor (1920x1200) is 3 times the size of others. Windows 7 operating system. Everything fine before update.

        gwood
        gwood
        Participant
        January 30, 2018

        All I can say is "Do what I did" -- I rolled back to the previous release of Photoshop CC just before the latest update.  Everything's back to normal, but from the various replies I've seen to this problem in this and other threads, including Adobe's contributions, it looks like the next time I'll be able to successfully update my Photoshop CC 2018 will be when I end up getting a Win10 machine, and that's probably not until after official security update support for Win7 ends (January 14, 2020), or if my stupidly-high-end Win7 machine borks prior to that.  So my subscription's gonna be paying for several years of updates/upgrades/fixes that I can't, in fact, actually use.  :-/

          mattstix
          mattstixAuthor
          Known Participant
          January 30, 2018

          feel your pain, but unfortunately windows 10 doesn’t help either!! The official line is to change the scaling of the entire PC, just to satisfy Photoshop, sadly this screws anything else you want to use your pc for...

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