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.
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.
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...
Not sure how I can explain it any differently. I have a 31" LG monitor plugged in as display #2. The resolution is set to 1920x1080, and is not set to widescreen mode purposely to avoid distortion. If my Windows display is set to 100% scale ALL my app work fine, and I can see everything OK; except for Photoshop. If I change the scaling factor to 125% (which Windows recommends) everything gets blown up, and I have to resize every window. This happens regardless of how I try and size the interface (Auto, 100%, 200%, and Large Print). The ONLY time I can get a full Photoshop interface/workspace is with the font set to "tiny"; and by then the menu across the top is too small for me to easily read. If I scale WINDOWS back to 100%, it is unreadable, but everything else I use is readable.
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?
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.
6
Replies
AdChoices