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

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

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.

[J453]

After the feature was complete, the control is now found under Preferences > Interface... UI Scaling.

[albasdad]

It would be somehow "Customer Friendly" if Adobe recognized the ones who are still running PS CS 6 on 4 k monitors and are straining their eyes to see the minuscule menus and retrofitted this UI fix to the previous (CS 6) version. But Adobe and Customer Friendly seem to be an oxymoron.

[J453]

Hi Andre, CS6 is over 4 years old. Sorry, we are no longer providing updates for older products.

[albasdad]

Jeff,
Maybe Adobe you should take an example from Mercedes..or KitchenAid 😞
By the way, 4k monitors are not new - they existed 4 years ago as well but PS did not correctly supported the technology. So you'd be just fixing what should have been working before....just a customer's point of view and I am sure not being alone.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

After preferances>interface, I do not see a UI scaling. Can only see IU font size and IU language where the font size is already at 'large'

[rflexible]

I agree, when some of us bought CS6 it was much less than 4 years old

[rflexible]

With CS6 that I've had for only about 1 year ,under preferences/interface the large option does not change the UI font size. It is still font size 2 and unreadable

[J453]

The font size only adjusts the size of the font for the default scale. To get larger fonts and UI, you'd need the 200% scaling feature in more recent versions of Photoshop.

[rflexible]

Do the recent versions of PS automatically work with higher resolution lap top displays such as (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED- Backlit Touch Display?

[ssprengel]

For Windows, there is a UI scaling option in PS / Prefs / Interface, where the choices are 100%, 200%, Auto, with Auto choosing 100 or 200 depending on the screen dimensions.  So if you have things set to Auto I'm sure it'll use 200% on a 4K monitor, but 200% is as much increase as PS has currently.

[peterf33554845]

I also have this problem with 200% and 100% the font is very small.

[rflexible]

I am trying the CC for both LR and PS, but I've had problems. When I call the tech support number they do not call back for 2 days. The waiting has wasted 3 days of the trial, and they say no one can extend it. Poor model for encouraging purchases.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I can't us Photoshop CS6 because on my Surface Book makes the UI too small. UI Scaling is not shown in Preference>Interface... Help

[Alex_R84]

200% makes the UI unwieldy and large on a 4K display, requestion 150%

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Experimental Features , doesn't appeared at all UI only have the text size of S,M,L , but even "L" is selected still very small on the screen 

[J453]

UI scaling is under Preferences > Interface in current version of Photoshop CC

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

The UI scaling and Font sizing option has no effect on m Dell XPS15 with 4K display. Using Photoshop CC 20155.5 on Win10Pro. See attached snapshots. Please advise.

[J453]

Did you restart Photoshop between changing the setting?

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Yes, I saw the information message and restarted PS after each setting change trying each setting 3-4 times. Good news, bad news though. I tried again today and low and behold it's working (good news) only the screenshots I posted it turns out are the Large/200% setting which is still too small for my 15" 4K laptop screen. I'm probably going to need a setting between 300-400% before I can comfortably read/view fonts and icons. So please consider this a feature request to provide more scaling options.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

For those of us using a 27" 4K display 200% scaling isn't especially useful, as it's way too big, and 100% is way too small. It's normal when using a 27" 4K panel to set windows to 150% scaling.

Some applications respect the windows scaling value and resize accordingly. I hope Photoshop will be able to do the same soon.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I am NOT a fan of this new feature. It needs adjustment. Here's the problem (which I confirmed is not fixable last night via Adobe's remote agent):

- 200% scaling cuts off the Tools on either/both my 13" laptop screen and my 20" extended display, and makes it necessary to click a down arrow from any top menus to reach items near the bottom (File, Edit, etc.). Two-finger scrolling won't work here.
- 100% scaling makes it so the Tools fit, but the text for menu headings is nearly illegibly small (20/20 vision reporting). To make things worse, the items in each menu's drop down remain at 200% size no matter what the overall interface scaling is set to, so even at 100% a user must arrow down to reach the bottom of longer menus such as "Edit." Plus, the huge menu items underneath such tiny headings look and feel absurd.

All in all, it's not THAT bad, but it hurts more than it helps. Sure, I could suck it up and go with a two-column set of Tools (and grumble), but if 100% scale reduces the size of the interface overall, it should also reduce the size of the items that drop down from menus. If the "auto" scaling option could resize the interface when dragged over to a larger screen, that would be nice, too.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

There are different scaling settings for my two different screens, but Adobe seems to use the same for both my screens. On one it's fine, on the other menus are huge. Works perfectly fine in other apps I have.

[J453]

Per monitor scaling is in the works.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Taking the approach that this is Microsoft's problem isn't the right public relations choice. Microsoft has addressed almost all scaling issues in Windows 10 (Redstone). InDesign, Illustrator, Microsoft Office, and Google Chrome are basically perfect now. It sounds to me like Adobe developers need to start openly and realistically discussing Photoshop's technical debt (Bridge & Acrobat as well). 

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Fixing an OS bug is a new feature? CS 5.5 is obsolete?