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February 12, 2015
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How to use photoshop on 4K monitor? the scale of interface is too small...

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Geting started with Photoshop cc on 4K monitor faced with problem of scale of interfece-its too small. How to adjust it to that resolution 3200x1800? Thanks in  advance.

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Preferences > Experimental features > Scale UI 200%.......

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Participating Frequently
February 19, 2016

‌Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop do not support new 4K or 5k resolution yet. Scaling the display to 200% is incorrect way to go about it. If you go to (Mac) Aplications > Lightroom 5 > Get info ! remove tic from box 'Open in High resolution' and the problem will be solved. Lightroom and Photoshop will be the same size as before. I guess it will be some time before Adobe supports 5K monitors...

you you can do that in each of the programs and it will sort the scaling issue out... The problem with Display scaling is it affects everything... Hope that helps...

D Fosse
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February 19, 2016

Barryvj171 wrote:

Scaling the display to 200% is incorrect way to go about it

The 200% UI scaling option only affects the interface, not the image.

The image itself displays as it always has: correctly. At 100% zoom, one image pixel is represented by one screen pixel. That's the only way a professional grade image editor can do it.

Participating Frequently
February 23, 2016

‌Yes, you are correct, but the images are too small to edit, especially when y get down to the pixel level like I do...

IF you go to applications > get info > remove the tic in 'open in hi res', then the program and image will behave exactly as before with the old monitor... Adobe does not yet fully support  4 or 5K monitors, so you will notice the type will be imperfect... But at least now the images are editable...

you ou can of course increase the view to 150 or 200%, but then you don't know what the correct size will be.... that's just my view...

JJMack
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February 12, 2015

If you install Photoshop CC 2014 it has an experimental preference  for 2x UI for displays the have a hihj DOI resolution.   Photoshop UI is  scaled as though your display has half the resolution that it has. Your 3200x1800px 13.3 LCD has a 276 DPI resolution  Photoshop will scale its UI as though your display is a 1600x900PX display with a 138 DPI resolution, Each pixel in the UI will be doubled in width and height.  So four of your display pixels will be use for each of the current UI pixels. The UI will display 4 times the size it currently displays.  However the image area be greatly reduced in size.

JJMack
Trevor.Dennis
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February 12, 2015

Blimey JJ.  I didn't even think the OP might not be using CC.  It's true what they say about making assumptions.  My bad

Inspiring
February 16, 2015

You too.

Its nice to know the Adobe appreciates user that help their users and also does not censor forums but for inappropriate content.  I am a big fan of Photoshop and have also been very critical of Adobe support sill Adobe recognized me..  While Photoshop is the best game in town I would still like to see bugs fixed.   Adobe's programming staff is outstanding they can fix them.  Adobe does fix major bug.

This experimental 2x UI is a case where Adobe realizes when something does not work I have confidences Adobe and Microsoft will come up with a solution.  While the current patch may be OK for laptop and tablets with high resolution 4K displays it does not actually work well for Laptop and Tablets that have high resolution displays that are not 4K tablets.  Displays with less the 2056x1536 pixels do not meet Photoshop requirement when run at half resolution.  If you look at the above append you would see the a machine like Microsoft Surface Pro 2 which has a high resolution 1920x180 pixels. When you use Photoshop on it and use the 2x preference its equivalent of running Photoshop on a machine with ad display with 960x540 pixels.  The display does not meet Photoshop Requirements so Photoshop UI does not fit on screen, A Surface Pro 3 screen 2160x1440 becomes a 1080x720 close to the required 1024x768 just 48 pixel short in height.


Here is a picture of my 280x1620 monitor (sony vaio bought for use with photoshop) It's a touch screen so naturally I have not been able to use it what so ever, my finger is 12 times as large as the icons, and the pen is too inaccurate to successfully hit the little tags in the gradient selector (i hit 1 in 30 times) I have now enabled the experimental 2X ui feature and i think it is marginally more productive... I can hit the buttons now probably. However now my painting area is about 50% of the screen size, so it's far from ideal, indeed I will continue to choose to work on a different computer when I can. I have been browsing topics like these and see they go back to 2010. Why is this not fixed yet? It's a major gripe for me. I'm 25, and I can't read the font because it's so small in the default, nonexperimental view. I am awaiting a more streamlined solution for this than filling up my windows with unnecessary dead space that is the experimental 2X size option. I am so frustrated. So very frustrated. If only I could run opensource painting program Krita without crashing I would have stopped paying for CC a long time ago.
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Trevor.Dennis
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February 12, 2015

Preferences > Experimental features > Scale UI 200%.......