Can Adobe make the UI bigger in Photoshop?

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November 13, 2024
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I'm new to Photoshop, and cannot see the font on the photoshop workspace. I've made the interface font as large as I can, and scaled it to 200% but it's still too small. I can make the scale larger in Windows, but then everything else I use is out of whack and needs some tweaking.

Here's a thought! Why not give photoshop the functionality to increase font sizes and the size of tool icons based on how the user customizes their environment? Hopefully there will be a solution, or my Photoshop experience won't be a long or happy one.

Windows

D Fosse

Community Expert

The Photoshop interface (not the image) scales according to the scaling factor you set in Windows.

So I don't quite get this. The Photoshop interface has baically the same scale as any other application interface. The text is roughly the same size as any other application text.

So if the Photoshop interface needs scaling up, why doesn't everything else? What's different?

Mike851Author

Known Participant

When I scal it as Windows recommends, which is 125% it looks OK, BUT everything else looks way too large, and the different windows are pushed off the screen. Attached is a PDF with screenshots from LrC & Ps before and after scaling with windows. Note that after I change to what Windows recommends, the menus and toolbar in Ps are truncated. Also all my other apps (email, password manager, Excel, etc. are all either partially shown, or shown looking like full screen.

Photoshop_font_size.pdf

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

Hi Mike. What is your screen size and resolution?

Do you use multiple screens?

Mike851Author

Known Participant

I use a laptop, and a widescreen monitor. The monitor is set to 1920x1080. It works fine for everything else, including LrC. Windows recommends a setting of 125% scale, but I find that most windows work better for me at 100%. The only app that is giving me trouble is Photoshou. Everything seems compressed, even compared to Lightroom Classic. I posted comparison images in a PDF to another reply on here.

D Fosse

Community Expert

What do you mean by "set to" 1920 x 1080? Is that the native resolution of the screen?

At normal desktop monitor screen sizes, 1920 x 1080 (standard HD) shouldn't require any scaling at all - unless it's a very small laptop screen.

Sorry for being dense. I still don't understand why no scaling doesn't work for Photoshop, when you say it works everywhere else. I'm probably missing something here...

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