How can I enlarge tool icons in Photoshop?

[nicole anjolie]

I need to increase the size of the menu names and tool icons so I can see them. The standard download size is much too small for my eyes. Can this be done?

ps. I work on a 17" laptop

[Jeff Arola]

Try this:

https://danantonielli.com/app-scaling-on-high-dpi-displays-fix-2019/

[JJHI]

I'm having the same problem. I just got Creative Cloud with PS 2020, I'm using a just-updated version of Windows 10 on an HP Envy 14. Bloody Hell, Adobe - are you trying to make us go blind? I've tried increasing the size of the tool icons by using preferences > interface > font size large, and it does nothing at all. I've tried changing the settings in Properties, as suggested in various places - also nothing. I've restarted PS and rebooted my laptop - nothing, nada, zilch.

Does someone from Adobe have a fix that actually works, or am I going to have to get a different company's photo editing software? As it stands, my brand new verseion of PS 2020 is completely useless to me.

[Ed11F]

After making the changes in interface, did you close and reopen photoshop?  That might help.  I got new monitor, computer and CC Adobe programs now.  Had problem with small size.  Changed resolution to 1920 X 1080 in settings, display, display resolution and that helped.  Also changes in programs in preferences and restarted programs.

[kind_Walrus5E75]

Thank you! This one solved the issue.

[5doxies]

Thank you so much! This worked and I can see. I know my Photoshop is an old version. I don't use if often enough now to warrant buying a monthly version. Thanks! Becky

[Gregg5E2C]

I am having a similar issue. The 'Tools' icons are about a quarter of the size of screen icons - way too small to be useful.

I have set the UI Font Size to 'Large', UI Scaling to '200%', and checked 'Scale UI To Font'. Restarted PS and nothing seems to have changed.

I tried the steps in the referenced article - NO CHANGE.

What can I do?!

I am using lastest updated version of Win 10 and renting PS (so it should be the latest version).

[D Fosse]

Photoshop should pick up the system UI scaling, and scale icons and UI elements accordingly. So what is it set to in Windows?

You're not supposed to do anything beyond that (as long as you have a reasonably current system).

[Gregg5E2C]

...but if I change the 'system > display > scale and layout' to a higher setting (125%) EVERYTHING is bigger and screen 'real estate' is compromised.  I just want the tool icons to be a similar size as the desktop screen icons. Right now the tool icons are about one-quarter the size of screen icons (not much bigger than text).  It sounds like this is just not an option.

To give you an idea of how small the icons appear, when I put my mouse pointer on an icon, the pointer 'arrow' overlaps halfway onto other icons. 

[Teri21868530tcdw]

This worked for me too. Thank you. 

[Craig30226024sbx2]

The best, fastest, easy fix.  Took me three days to find this, and thirty seconds to follow directions and fix the issue.   THANK YOU!!!!!!

[Kay30282869n5wh]

Thank you so much!!  That worked perfectly!!

[lesliet64987402]

After much searching I just found the video below which shows how to change windows settings, top menu text is still on the small side and it makes all screen text larger but does help with icons; I changed my setting to 200 and may twiddle with it a bit but this does seem to help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_RiMMPOSXc

See attachment.

[Bethany303631069uxh]

Navigate to where the actual application file(.exe) is,

right-click it and select properties,

choose the compatibility tab and select "Change high dpi settings" under the settings section,

in the next window, select the checkbox that says "High DPI scaling override",

and choose "System" from the drop down.

-Hit ok to save the changes, and then re-open Photoshop

[Gregg5E2C]

Nope...  The icons are still 33px by 26px.  

[Ed11F]

Hi.  I'm having the same problem after getting a new monitor and computer.  Annoying.  I finally changed the settings, system, display, display resolution to 1920 X 1080 and it's better.  No black wasted space on left and right sides, size of the taskbar (bottom) of windows is better as well as menus and tool icons in photoshop and illustrator.

[Fowltactikz]

Everyone tells you go to your preference UI system screw that that's not what you're looking for. What you want to do is go into your program files look for Adobe scroll down until you find the Photoshop version folder that you are using.  Go into that file and look for the Photoshop exe file / application file. Right click on it and click  properties.  You'll see a tab say compatibility click that. At the bottom of the menu you will see change High DPI settings click that. You will then check off a box that says hi DPI scaling override. Underneath there would be a drop-down box that you will change to system. Click OK on that box and then apply on the previous one. Close everything out and restart Photoshop and your problem will be fixed. Hope this helps out anyone else having this issue

[D Fosse]

@Fowltactikz 

It only solves the problem insofar as you have succesfully turned your expensive high resolution display into a standard HD display.  This just scales everything on screen 2x, including the image itself. It now uses four screen pixels to represent each image pixel.

Scaling the Photoshop UI, but not the image, is done through the scaling factor in Windows settings. Yes, this naturally scales all applications, but it's hard to understand why Photoshop would need different scaling than any other application.