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

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February 12, 2015
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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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‌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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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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‌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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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.

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risak22

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I installed CS 4 creative suite on a new Lenovo Yoga 13.3" QHD+ (3200 x 1800) IPS, - photoshop is tiny scale. I tried changing lenovo system settings scale to 200% but that did not help. Do I need to reinstall the Adobe CS to find the preference settings you mention? What else do you advise?

JJMack

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1800/768 = 2.34375 so the max scaling you can do is 225% and meet Photoshop 1024x768 UI requirement. Your 13.3" display has a 16:9 aspect ratio and a 276 DPI resolution. Scaling that display 225% would make it like a 123DPI display. Photoshop UI was designed for a 96dpi resolution. You should find Photoshop UI a little small but it should be quite useable. If you have the Latest Windows 10 updates and Photoshop CC 2018 version 19.1+. when you set your Displaye"s windows scaling setting to 225%.

For old versions of Photoshop with Windows 10 you can force Windows scaling onto Photoshop. Both UI and Image will be scaled by Window. Using a Windows shortcut to opens Photoshop and override High DPI Scaling to System enhanced. Set your display's Windows scaling setting to 225%. Do not set any Adobe Photoshop scaling setting to other than 100%