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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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    Correct answer Trevor.Dennis

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

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    Barryvj171
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    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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    D FosseCommunity Expert
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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.

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      Barryvj171
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      February 23, 2016

      Barryvj171 wrote:

      I know how big everything is supposed to be

      No, you don't. That depends entirely on the resolution of the display, its pixel density. That's what you don't seem to understand.

      The new generation of high-density displays is why Photoshop added the option to scale up the UI elements, so that they appear roughly as they did on a traditional display.

      But the image by necessity becomes smaller on these displays. That's what you pay for. It's not a problem, it's a feature, and an expensive one at that.


      ‌i see it as a problem, not a feature. i want to edit a photo at 100% not 'roughly as they did before'... anyway, I got it right and it works for me... What ever you do or other people do is entirely up to them...

      if it is a feature, why are so many people having 'problems' with it....?

      i Think in fact you and I are talking at crossed purposes.... I am talking about display upscaling the actual display in the iMac user options... I'm not talking about upscaling in Photoshop....

      JJMack
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      JJMackCommunity Expert
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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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      Trevor.DennisCommunity Expert
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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

      gener7
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      gener7Community Expert
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      February 12, 2015

      J.J. and I type slowly so it's only after we click "add reply" that we find out someone got in with the same answer and our posts come out looking like we didn't read post #2.

      Gene

      Trevor.Dennis
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      Trevor.DennisCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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      February 12, 2015

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

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