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P: Introducing scale the UI 200% for high-density displays for Windows

  • May 2, 2014
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The Photoshop team welcomes your feedback on this experimental feature. Let us know what you think!
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Photoshop user interface controls may appear small and hard-to-read on high-density displays. Also, on touch-enabled screens, you may have trouble clicking the smaller controls. 200% scaling solves this issue by doubling the size of the user interface.

Since the user interface elements increase in size by 200%, depending on the size and resolution of your display, you may need to adjust the layout of existing workspaces. For example, on a 1080 px screen at 200%, the Tools panel extends off the bottom of the screen. You can change to double-column orientation in order to fit the panel on the screen.

Note: This feature is only for Windows users. HiDPI on Mac has been available for high-density Retina displays since Photoshop CS6.

Caveats

You may encounter some cosmetic issues while using this feature. While many Photoshop dialogs have been reworked so that they fit on the screen at 1080 px, viewing some dialogs (such as Smart Sharpen) completely may require you to collapse sections.

Disable 200% UI scaling

If you need to return to the default 100% scaling, do the following:

1. Select Preferences > Experimental Features.
2. Deselect Scale UI 200% For High-Density Displays (Windows Only).
3. Restart Photoshop.

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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 8, 2014
    How do I get to this feature in photoshop elements 12?
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    leehu123456789
    Participating Frequently
    August 5, 2014
    lol

    i guess it's what you call a new feature really

    anyway, moved my web development and photography stuff to other apps - seems that other people don't seem to find the scaling such a massive problem as to be calling it a new feature...
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 5, 2014
    maintain != getting new features
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 5, 2014
    Features don't just disappear by themselves.

    You're running the wrong version of the application. You need to be using CC 2014 to use the 200% scaling. Photoshop CC doesn't have that feature.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 5, 2014
    The "Experimental" option was pointed out to me by an Adobe techie after many hours of struggle w my HD screen and invisible UI. Went to Prefs, clicked Experimental, ta-da the grave flaw in Photoshop was solved.

    But then soon after, in the middle of a huge project of course, the UI shrank back to unreadable and the Experimental choice disappeared, never to return despite reboots, etc. As post-ers above mentioned, this is contemptuous behaviour on Adobe's part, but I have become accustomed to it.
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    leehu123456789
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    July 30, 2014
    everything up to CS6 is fine at 1920x1080
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    July 30, 2014
    I've heard about the problems that Photoshop CS6 has with high-retina displays on Windows 8. Will a native screen resolution of 1920 x 1080 work ok with Photoshop & Illustrator CS6 work ok with this? Or will this give me the same squinting problem everyone talks about? Please don't tell me to upgrade to CC, my business has not been authorized to do this, but they have given me permission to get a new laptop to replace the broken one I have that has been running CS6.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    July 29, 2014
    I have vision issues but the 200% option is TOO big. A 150% increase would be perfect!
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    SG...
    Adobe Employee
    July 24, 2014
    Resetting the preferences won't remove this option. It gets stored in a registry key.

    I see Marcos figured out how to disable using the keyboard (see below).
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    July 21, 2014
    200% is too big size for 2560 x 1600 resolution 30 inches monitor. I think, that 150% will be a better solution.
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