Text in PS With a Retina Screen?

Question

Hi everybody, I am working on a file in PS that is 72 dpi because it’s intended to be displayed on screen. However, I’ve got one of those stupid retina screens, which are, I think, 144 dpi, and everything displays at half the size in PS. Anyway, if you work on the image at 200% in PS you can see it at the right size. However, when you put text on, the text is very pixilated and looks rubbish. Can you have clear text at a good resolution in a 72 dpi file if you are making it with a Mac with a retina screen? If so what do I need to do? Thanks for your help, Gareth.

Lumigraphics · Accepted Answer

First of all its PPI not DPI. Second, for on-screen use, resolution is irrelevant. It can be 72PPI or 72,000 PPI and it will display the same. Third, are you using the native resolution or one that is pixel doubled? Photoshop will always show ACTUAL pixels. Windows and Mac handle hi-res/Retina displays differently so that matters too.

D Fosse · Answer

Photoshop displays it correctly. Other, consumer-oriented image viewers and web browsers scale the image up to 200% when they detect a high-density (small pixel) screen. This is the industry standard workaround to ensure the same material can be used everywhere, regardless of what screen technology the user happens to have. Photoshop set to View > 200 % does exactly the same thing. Also note that Photoshop, as a pixel based raster editor, will always display text and vector elements rasterized to the base document resolution (pixels). This is in contrast to a true vector application like Illustrator, which will always render text/vector at full screen resolution. In other words, there is nothing wrong and nothing to fix.

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