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February 12, 2015
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How to use photoshop on 4K monitor? the scale of interface is too small...

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Geting started with Photoshop cc on 4K monitor faced with problem of scale of interfece-its too small. How to adjust it to that resolution 3200x1800? Thanks in  advance.

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    Correct answer Trevor.Dennis

    Preferences > Experimental features > Scale UI 200%.......

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    Barryvj171
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    February 19, 2016

    ‌Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop do not support new 4K or 5k resolution yet. Scaling the display to 200% is incorrect way to go about it. If you go to (Mac) Aplications > Lightroom 5 > Get info ! remove tic from box 'Open in High resolution' and the problem will be solved. Lightroom and Photoshop will be the same size as before. I guess it will be some time before Adobe supports 5K monitors...

    you you can do that in each of the programs and it will sort the scaling issue out... The problem with Display scaling is it affects everything... Hope that helps...

    D Fosse
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    D FosseCommunity Expert
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    February 19, 2016

    Barryvj171 wrote:

    Scaling the display to 200% is incorrect way to go about it

    The 200% UI scaling option only affects the interface, not the image.

    The image itself displays as it always has: correctly. At 100% zoom, one image pixel is represented by one screen pixel. That's the only way a professional grade image editor can do it.

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      Barryvj171
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      February 23, 2016

      ‌Yes, you are correct, but the images are too small to edit, especially when y get down to the pixel level like I do...

      IF you go to applications > get info > remove the tic in 'open in hi res', then the program and image will behave exactly as before with the old monitor... Adobe does not yet fully support  4 or 5K monitors, so you will notice the type will be imperfect... But at least now the images are editable...

      you ou can of course increase the view to 150 or 200%, but then you don't know what the correct size will be.... that's just my view...

      JJMack
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      JJMackCommunity Expert
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      February 12, 2015

      If you install Photoshop CC 2014 it has an experimental preference  for 2x UI for displays the have a hihj DOI resolution.   Photoshop UI is  scaled as though your display has half the resolution that it has. Your 3200x1800px 13.3 LCD has a 276 DPI resolution  Photoshop will scale its UI as though your display is a 1600x900PX display with a 138 DPI resolution, Each pixel in the UI will be doubled in width and height.  So four of your display pixels will be use for each of the current UI pixels. The UI will display 4 times the size it currently displays.  However the image area be greatly reduced in size.

      JJMack
      Trevor.Dennis
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      Trevor.DennisCommunity Expert
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      February 12, 2015

      Blimey JJ.  I didn't even think the OP might not be using CC.  It's true what they say about making assumptions.  My bad

      JJMack
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      JJMackCommunity Expert
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      February 16, 2015

      Here is a picture of my 280x1620 monitor (sony vaio bought for use with photoshop) It's a touch screen so naturally I have not been able to use it what so ever, my finger is 12 times as large as the icons, and the pen is too inaccurate to successfully hit the little tags in the gradient selector (i hit 1 in 30 times) I have now enabled the experimental 2X ui feature and i think it is marginally more productive... I can hit the buttons now probably. However now my painting area is about 50% of the screen size, so it's far from ideal, indeed I will continue to choose to work on a different computer when I can. I have been browsing topics like these and see they go back to 2010. Why is this not fixed yet? It's a major gripe for me. I'm 25, and I can't read the font because it's so small in the default, nonexperimental view. I am awaiting a more streamlined solution for this than filling up my windows with unnecessary dead space that is the experimental 2X size option. I am so frustrated. So very frustrated. If only I could run opensource painting program Krita without crashing I would have stopped paying for CC a long time ago.
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      Supports machine other the the Surface Pro 3

      JJMack
        Trevor.Dennis
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        Trevor.DennisCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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        February 12, 2015

        Preferences > Experimental features > Scale UI 200%.......

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