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David W Hedley
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July 25, 2018
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Changing Font size on the Elements main screens

  • July 25, 2018
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Hello - very basic question - probably has a very simple answer that I've missed!  . . . . I've used Photoshop for years but my last upgrade to 15.0.0.0 has a very small font size on the working screens - which is driving me crackers and I can't find a way to enlarge to match previous versions. Any bright ideas please?!

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    Jeff Arola
    Jeff Arola
    Community Expert
    July 25, 2018

    If in the pse 15 editor, you go to Edit>Preferences>Display & Cursors you should be able to change the UI Scale Factor to Large - 200%.

    Then restart pse 15 to see the change.

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      David W HedleyAuthor
      New Participant
      July 26, 2018

      Thanks Jeff - appreciate you taking the time to reply.

      I tried it, but 200%is far too big I'm afraid.

      I need to enlarge the font size for both Editor and Organiser and can't find a route for Organiser.

      The drop down menus in Organiser have now stopped working but work fine in Editor - ?

      I don't have this font size problem with any other application I use on my laptop - its a Lenovo with a 1920 x 1080 resolution display - is simply that Photoshop Elements doesn't work with this size display?

      MichelBParis
      MichelBParis
      Community Expert
      July 26, 2018

      The organizer does not use the 200% factor. It uses the standard Windows display options to display fonts offered by Microsoft. Use 25 or 50% for instance. Most of the time the Microsoft settings are good for all other applications.

      The problem with your Lenovo 1920 x 1080 is that the display dimensions in inches are too small. The default menu and tool palettes layouts were optimized to display large menus in 1902 x 1080 (HD) monitors ranging from 20" to 27".

      The solution to enlarge the fonts works very well for high definition displays (4k) in the same range in inches. For smaller screens, the fonts are too big to display the menus and palettes which are truncated.

      The solution for the editor is unfortunately to set the resolution of your display to a lower resolution, like 1440 x 900.

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