Using photoshop and Bridge CC with 8k monitor

[Oliver Sparrow]

I am using a high end computer with a Dell UP3218k monitor and NVIDIA RTX4000 graphics card. I have resolution magnified to 500%, which makes the screen readabel in most apps. However, photoshop and Bridge do not respond and give minuscule font and controls. Thge mouse curson in Bridge, in particular, is a single pixel. This won't do. 

Searching the net, I have tried the fix Properties => Compatibility => Change DPI settings => Check override DPI settings. In Bridge, this gives a normal looking UI, but the mouse remains invisible and the product is unusable. Photoshop reacts badly, with the UI normal looking but the menues offset and unusuable. Removing this option gives a mor eor less normal system. However, if you fire up RAW from Bridge you get a disaster, with the image being processed shown mostly off screen and the end session buttons concealed. Mouse cursor is small buit usabel, but impotent. 

There is also a fix mooted which involves side-by-side registry modification, and a file containing code that needs major modification to worlk at all. (Set for AMD, onsolete Windows version.) This has no effect in Bridge and causes run errors in Photoshop, so not recommended. 

This is a farrago: neither product works with high res screens. I could, no doubt, use a duela setup and throw the image alone onto the 8k screen, but having spent many thousands on this, I am not willing to compromise. Does anyone have a fix to offer? 

[Oliver Sparrow]

Self-reply.

You can fix Photoshop and RAW by setting magnification to 400% and script size to around 180%. Everything looks too small, but is usuable. Bridge, however, remains a disaster with the cursor completely hidden. Th s is truly not good enough, Adobe. 

[davescm]

What version of Photoshop?

In current versions you should be able to set your Windows scaling to whatever you need, then the Photoshop user interface will use that scaling. No registry or compatibility settings should be needed.

Note - I stress interface. 100% zoom will always use 1 image pixel mapped to 1 screen pixel so will be almost invisible at that screen's pixel density, which is far too high for critical image adjustment.

For bridge you might want to ask in the Bridge forum.

Dave

[Oliver Sparrow]

Yes, I have read that too. But it is not the case. The release is 22.4.3, compleetly current. 

[davescm]

If it does not work on your system, you might want to raise it with Adobe at the link below, giving your full system details from Help > System info:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/

Dave

[Oliver Sparrow]

OK: here is a clumsy solution, but it works. Go to catnip5.com and download the free mouse highlighter. This is a tiny exe, which does what it says in the title. Pin it to your taskbar and you can toggel on or off a highlight which can be whatever size and colour that you wants. This makes Bridge useable and p/shop more friendly. The highlight stays with the pixel choice that you make in the native UI. I use magenta and 30px.

Hint: in the set up, do not permit "highlighting", as this leaves undesirable brief duistractiosn in p/shop. It adds very little to the utility. Warnoing: if you click "About" you will get a cat wail and a screen that is possible to remove only by killing the app. 

[Oliver Sparrow]

Whoops: typos. Toggle and want, distractions and warning