Inspiring

Question

When I open an image in Photoshop the window is auto-resized to the image dimensions. I would like to have the option to be able to leave the image-size fitting maximally on my monitor space where the image gets centered position

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February 20, 2026
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I would like to have the option that the window-frame in which my image is opened is resized according to the monitor -or- stays at the resized size. See attached image Left = current behavior, requested behavior on the Right.

What would be helpful if the last used size gets remembered because now I have to resize my window for every newly opened image.

(I know this exists when using the app in Application-frame-mode but that option has disadvantages in my perspective because I can't see through to any app in the background to click on that to switch apps or go to the Finder in an instant).

lambiloon

Community Expert

Hi in Photoshop then wondows > go to workspace> reset ur workspace > close photoshop and run again if you open the any image then it will be in center of frame...regards

Ali Sajjad / Graphic Design Trainer / Freelancer / Adobe Certified Professional

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

This has been an issue for awhile:

https://community.adobe.com/questions-712/photoshop-workspace-automatically-resizes-the-workspace-window-when-opening-files-1069912

100pkAuthor

Inspiring

Could be an issue for a long time, hopefully a new mention in this feature-request thread would make it possible to fix!

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ExUSA

Legend

I don’t believe zoom level is recorded into saved files. How would that work if you used a different monitor resolution or opened it on a different computer? What about formats that can’t be extended to support this? You can script zooming a window to fill the screen but there are still some technological limits that make this impossible.

100pkAuthor

Inspiring

If resize an InDesign document-window, the window of a second opened file inherits the size of the already opened file.

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ExUSA

Legend

Because you are opening a .idd file that is Adobe’s format, and they can store the settings in that file. How does this work with a jpeg file that can’t store window size?

D Fosse

Community Expert

Well, you can't see the desktop in your second example either, so it seems to me the appplication frame is equivalent.

100pkAuthor

Inspiring

In this case I took the screenshot to show the max difference, I would usually scale the window like half way, thing is: every time I open another file the window is autamatcally resized to the imagesize which is very inconvenient.

D Fosse

Community Expert

As for the actual screen size the image opens in (disregarding the window size) - an image opens at the largest available size in the so-called image pyramid. This is the cached versions referred to in preferences as “cache levels”. If you have cache levels at 4, then 4 incrementally smaller versions are kept there to speed up preview rendering.

Here’s the thing: this is to manage images bigger than the screen size. If the image fits on screen at 100%, then it always opens at 100%. It never enlarges above 100%.

Then obviously you can drag out the window size. I take it you want this to be remembered for the next image. I suppose that’s doable. So it remains to be seen how many votes it gets.

It’s also possible that this can be scripted, I don’t know.

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