images in photoshop too small

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@mgooo wrote:

is there a way to view it as it is viewed in other applications? zooming to 200% makes it a different, blurry quality and i wanna be able to edit it as it is displayed in other apps.

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You will find that most “other apps” — especially other image editing applications — will display 100% at the same size as Photoshop. So if you decide Photoshop is doing the wrong thing and switch to another image editing application, you’ll find that it does the same thing.

You will probably also find that the only apps that always enlarge images by 200% are web browsers and maybe email applications, but certainly not most apps.

»but everytime i open files in photoshop, 500px there is smaller than 500px in chrome for example. my google chrome display is at 100%.«

Are you mistaking px for a unit of measurment of length? 

Please post take a screenshot, measure the number of actual pixels each of the two applications uses to display a length of 500px and post them here. 

Hi @mgooo ,

It is because Ps screen res is set to 72ppi, and screen resolutions have gotten better.

Follow the steps in this post. You'll be good.

https://www.thegraphicmac.com/how-to-make-photoshops-100-view-actually-be-100/

Keep us posted on your progress ok?

Good luck

mj

Mohammed Jogie | Morning Star Design | BA CUA |

That's what a retina display does. That's what you paid for.

Photoshop displays correctly. Your other image viewers and web browsers don't!

Consumer-oriented viewers scale up images to 200% when they detect a high-density display, so that images appear at the same physical screen size that people are used to from standard displays. This is the standard industry workaround, to ensure the same images can be used whatever the screen technology.

In Photoshop, 100% has nothing to do with screen size. It means that one image pixel is represented by exactly one screen pixel. To mimic the behavior of those other apps, set Photoshop to View > 200%.