Text layer icon resizes on aspect ratio

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February 24, 2023
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I'm not sure if this is intentional, but it can certainly be a feature:

Is there anyway to stop Photoshop resizing the text layer icon?

See exhibit 1, background and text layer

And now when the image is rotated by 90 degrees (and changing the aspect ratio) it shrinks:

Naturally, I've wasted a lot of my mind and time figuring this out.

Is there any way to stop it happening?

Windows

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Jeff Arola

Community Expert

Same thing happens in both photoshop 6.0.1 circa 2001and photoshop 2023 (ps ver 24.2)

so there is nothing wrong with your version.

photoshop 6.0.1

photoshop 2023 (ps ver 24.2)

Imaginerie

Community Expert

I have it too, and I always thought it was meant to be 🙂

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Ghoul FoolAuthor

Inspiring

I didn't think there was anything wrong with my version.

And now that I think about it, I have seen it happen in previous versions.

Whist it is sensible and logical to show a preview of the layers in the layers preview (which change as you rotate the document) it makes no sense to change the "T" in a square to a smaller "T" - though linked by the same code no doubt.

Imaginerie

Community Expert

Sorry, I missed the bit in your screenshot where it shows you rotated your document (I thought you rotated the layer)
This is definitely by design.
I don't think you can stop it happening.

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Ghoul FoolAuthor

Inspiring

And pray tell, what purpose does that serve exactly?

Ged_Traynor

Community Expert

@Ghoul Fool I can't replicate the issue with Photoshop version 24.2 on Windows 11, I tested with rotating the canvas and rotating layer, the type thumbnail stays the same size, maybe try manually resetting your Photoshop preferences

https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/photoshop/using/preferences.html#Manually