Folder icons view-Macbook

[Misty24607846njm8]

I have a Mac Book Pro and I am a new user of mac.  When I am in Photoshop and I go to open/view a file, the icon is super small and I can't see what the photo looks like.  How can I make the icons larger without zooming in the entire screen?  I have tried command+, I have clicked on every drop down and nothing gives me an option to make the icons larger.  Please help!

[Michael Bullo]

The Preferences can be found in the Photoshop menu on a Mac and the Edit menu on Windows. Within the Interface section is the ability to change the UI Font Size and scale the UI. Don't forget to restart Photoshop. Does this help?

[Michael Bullo]

If my above suggestion doesn't help, could you please post a screen capture to show exactly what you are trying to scale.

[Misty24607846njm8]

That did not work.  The icons are still very small.

[Lumigraphics]

Apple sells Retina displays, which are normally scaled down to usable size. I have a 15" MacBook Pro and a 21" 4K iMac, and both are scaled to 50% of native resolution.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202471

[Jeff Arola]

The issue is the thumbnail size is fixed in the file open dialogs, however, you can change the size as explained here by gener7.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/increasing-size-of-thumbnails-for-mac...

[Misty24607846njm8]

I had already changed the size in Finder, but I think my issue is, is that I don't have the option to "use as default" for some reason.  I'm not sure why.  I am posting a pic of what the link shows and then what my screen looks like.

[Jeff Arola]

You need to edit the com.apple.finder.plist  as explained in the thread linked to above.

(the answer marked as correct)

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/increasing-size-of-thumbnails-for-mac...

[gener7]

The Open/Save dialogs are basically limited Finder windows served up by MacOS.

Editing the plist is a way to increase dialog thumbnails, but not sure I'd want anyone new to the Mac doing this quite yet:

You can use the Spacebar on your Mac to get an expanded view. My trick is to use List View, press the  spacebar on a selected image to look at it. Spacebar will close the expanded image, but keep it open and use the cursor keys to scroll through your images in expanded or quicklook mode.

Bridge 2022 is Adobe's File Manager program free for downloading from your Creative Cloud Desktop. You can adjust your thumbnail sizes there and open your files in Photoshop.

If you want to you can try the plist adjustment, but I've only used it on Catalina--MacOS 10.15.7  You have to purchase the Plist Editor from the app store.