Recently, the change canvas dialog in photoshop looks different: smaller, uglier, and defaults to pixels no matter what my units are set to. Why?

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March 5, 2026
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Recently, the Canvas Size dialog in photoshop looks different: smaller, uglier, and defaults to pixels no matter what my units are set to. Why?

Correct answer jane-e

@ArtScrollCreative wrote Canvas Size dialog…defaults to pixels no matter what my units are set to

The Photoshop team is aware. Here is the link to the Primary thread.

https://community.adobe.com/bug-reports-711/p-ps-27-4-setting-the-default-in-preferences-units-to-inches-is-ignored-by-canvas-size-1551535?postid=1551535#post1551535

The workaround until it is fixed is to disable the Modern User Interface in Preferences > Technology Previews.

Jane

jane-e

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@ArtScrollCreative wrote Canvas Size dialog…defaults to pixels no matter what my units are set to

The Photoshop team is aware. Here is the link to the Primary thread.

https://community.adobe.com/bug-reports-711/p-ps-27-4-setting-the-default-in-preferences-units-to-inches-is-ignored-by-canvas-size-1551535?postid=1551535#post1551535

The workaround until it is fixed is to disable the Modern User Interface in Preferences > Technology Previews.

Jane

kglad

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post this in the ps forum, https://community.adobe.com/p/photoshop

and change your title slightly to avoid a duplicate post error.

John T Smith

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Moving a message to the correct forum is not working
This is the USING THE COMMUNITY forum... this is where the forum is discussed
This is not where you ask program or account questions
Start here https://community.adobe.com/community and find the correct forum for your question

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