Icon size is sooooo small.

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February 18, 2019
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I have a 5K and 8K monitor and the fonts and icons are so small I almost need a magnifying glass to see them. I've gone into the preferences and raised the fonts to their max. but they're still way too small. I have Capture One and the icon sizes are a normal size. Any ideas? I know this is an issue and I'm baffled why Adobe can't fix this when one of their competitors have it right.

Thanks in advance.

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Correct answer Jeff Arola

The 5K is a little better but the 8K is what I used in my attachment in my

last reply. As I mentioned, I have Capture One and it's icons and text are

at a normal size as I hope you can see in the attachment with the 8K

monitor. I just wonder why Adobe can't do that with Photoshop?

On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 11:11 PM Jeff Arola <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

Try the following and hopefully the results will be better:

1. In the pse 14 editor go to Edit>Preferences>Display & Cursors and set the UI Scale Factor to Small-100%

Then quit the pse 14 editor.

2. Go to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 14, right click on the PhotoshopElementsEditor.exe

click on Properties>Compatibility>Change high DPI Settings>Override high DPI scaling behavior>System Enhanced.

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I have been using Photoshop Elements 11 for years on an older computer (upgraded to Windows 10) and recently installed it on a new one. I got the tiny icons-menus problem. Method 2 above fixed it completely. Thank you Jeff.

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s_T_s

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Hi all,

I tried the

'Edit>Preferences>Display & Cursors, set the UI Scale Factor to Large-200% and restart (PSE)'

method and it worked like a charm for me. This was in PSE 19 and was driving me mad as the icons had been getting smaller and smaller over the past few days.

Many thanks to Jeff Arola.

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sipson

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Thanks for this solution. Adobe needs to AT LEAST promote this so that it is found in a FAQ or something promonent. I have a 1920x1080 13" monitor on my Samsung notebook and Elements was the only one giving me menu font size problems. It was almost unusable. Frankly, there should be provisions for this in the Preferences options. At least I didn't have to fire up Tor and search the Dark Web to find your solution, but it seemed that way.

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peterm93786985

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Windows 10 using PSE 2 and PSE 10.

Icon size OK on PSE 2 but too small on PSE 10. However I decidied to uninstall and then renstall PSE 10, the small icon size remains and I now have a further problem: I get the PSE 10 screen OK but as soon as I click File the whole PSE 10 disappears. Re loading it just causes a repeat.