UI Scaling

[cworkman]

Adobe needs to fix the UI scaling in Photoshop. The Adobe ecosystem has different scaling for each and every app. Some work on high end Mac monitors - some do not. 

Photoshop is an epic failure whereby the font size and icon sizes are miniscule. It is getting hard and harder to work in this app as the sizes are so offensively small.

And PLEASE do not tell me to scale my monitor's resolution each and every time I want to use Photoshop - this mandates that after every session I have to manually re-set my desktop. This is NOT a workable solution.

How is it that Illustrator can scale properly, ditto Bridge but Photoshop is a nightmare and everything is micro size.

Please Adobe provide a fix this!!!!!!! It's been going on way too long!!!!!!!!!!

Photoshop 26.1.0

Sonoma 14.7.2

Apple Studio Display 2560x1440 (default)

[D Fosse]

I don't do Mac and someone else will have to explain MacOS display scaling. As I understand, this is really a 5K panel natively, so 2560 x 1440 is scaled in the operating system.

But as for

How is it that Illustrator can scale properly, ditto Bridge but Photoshop is a nightmare

the explanation is that Photoshop needs to scale the UI and image window independently. That has a lot wider implications than most people think about. Vector applications like e.g. Illustrator and InDesign don't have this problem - they can just scale everything, UI, image, the whole thing, in one go. Photoshop can't do that. At 100%, one image pixel still needs to be represented by one physical screen pixel.

[cworkman]

thanks d fosse for replying and for your explanation about illustrator vs photoshop. much appreciated!

And while I hear what you are saying - again thank you, adobe invests lots of time working on new features - but why develope new features if the environment you are providing to use them in (the UI scale) doesn't work for people on modern monitors on mac? This makes no sense...

and I know I'm not alone in using top of the line apple monitors for adobe's creative apps.