Photoshop CC / Windows 8.1 HiDPI / Retina scaling support

Maybe it's not perfect.  But I'm grateful.  InDesign is fixed too.  SOOOO glad.

Underwhelmed Adobe.

This looks like more of a work-around than a proper high-dpi implementation for Windows. This might work on my Razer Blade (2014) with 200% desktop scaling.  But it won't be an optimal solution on my Surface Pro, with 150% desktop scaling.

As a dedicated CS6 user, I was ready to pony up for a CC subscription just for proper high dpi support. But without a solution that works with Surface, I can't really justify it.

Hi !

Thank you so much for the sofwares new versions that you guys hardly worked on, I'm profoundly satisfied by it

I just have a question concerning After effect, I actually have the same problem I had with photoshop until today, it has extremely small icons making it really hard to use it.

I wanted to know if I missed new features on it or if you didn't pay attention to that one ?

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/818830petitaftereffect.jpg

The Photoshop CC UI Font Scaling helps (Preferences > Interface) , but I'd like an XL and XXL selection. That might take care of a lot of these issues. Right now there's just S, M, L

So there's no workaround? No way to allow Windows 8.1 to scale up the size of the teensy tinsy hilariously microscopic Photoshop UI like you can with Flash Pro?

I figured the people most attracted to these new high dpi screens would be professional artists, and Adobe would have anticipated that, yet of all my applications it's the least usable in high dpi. Is Photoshop no longer the standard for professional artists?

4k desktop screens are becoming more common, so it is no longer a question of whether Photoshop should or should not be used on smaller retina screens (I believe this is up to the user, and how comfortable he/she is with that). The fact of the matter is that this has been going on for about eight months now, and we see more and more users complaining and asking about Photoshop's inability to display at a working GUI scale for them on Windows machines.

It's about time the dev team fixes this. Yes, it is complex. Yes, we are aware of Microsoft's GUI api (seemingly) not capable enough to fix this easily in Photoshop (while most other applications have no issues at this point).

This is not a complaint that started last year - for years on end designers have been asking for a more scalable interface, and if Adobe had implemented the code for this ten years ago, they would not have been in this mess.

Even on my 27" 2560x1440 screen the icons are just TOO SMALL for comfort. I would like to scale those up a bit, but I cannot. In Blender a very handy screen ppi slider/setting controls the overall size of the interface. That is the way to handle it. Ideally you want to allow every individual user to have control over the GUI scale as they see fit.

If open source applications solved the GUI scaling elegantly, one starts to wonder why this remains such a challenge for the Photoshop dev team (all due respect to them, though). I suspect this entails a complete recode of the GUI code. A vector based GUI render base would be helpful.

Hopefully this issue is fixed in the upcoming month or two - 4k screens are here, and it is verging on the ridiculous side of things that the "industry standard" image editor GUI is incapable to cope with higher resolution screens that have been available for some time.

Have the same issue on my Hp Spectre 13 with 1440p resolution.

Lightroom 5.4 somehow works 1000% better than Photoshop CC. The fonts/menys/brushes is 0.1 cm.

As other ppl already told. 4K displays = Big joke and that´s the people tat buy than kind of display early (media/graphics ppl) that use adobe program heavy.

I just cancelled my CC subscription.  I have a Dell XPS 15 high resolution screen.  I was using LR4 and Photoshop CS5.  For Christmas my wife bought me SLR Lounge LR tutorial disk.  I was so anxious about the software and being able to learn LR, I went out and bought the Dell so I could practice and learn during the slow times at work.  That's when my nightmare began.  LR and Photoshop, as you well know now, aren't scaled correctly on high resolution displays.  After months of waiting for Adobe to correct the problem I spoke with a Chat technician.  He told me the CC versions didn't have any micro UI issues.  So I purchase the subscription only to find out what I was told wasn't true, in other words I was lied to.  So today I cancelled my subscription and I'm walking away.  I'll take another look at Nikon's software.  I really did like Adobe photography software, but I like my sanity even more. 

At the recent BILD 2014 conference, there was a session where the presenter talks about work Adobe is doing with High DPI and pointer events. Take a look at http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/2-535. Reference minute 39:20. Good news, Photoshop is coming "soon" with 200% DPI scaling.

On the Lenovo Yoga Pro 2 forum it is indicated that using a screen resolution of 1920 x 1080 makes PSE 12 useable.  While this somewhat defeats the purpose of the ultra high resolution capabilities of the yoga, will this indeed work?  Anyone try it?