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Icon size is sooooo small.

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February 18, 2019
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I have a 5K and 8K monitor and the fonts and icons are so small I almost need a magnifying glass to see them. I've gone into the preferences and raised the fonts to their max. but they're still way too small. I have Capture One and the icon sizes are a normal size. Any ideas? I know this is an issue and I'm baffled why Adobe can't fix this when one of their competitors have it right.

Thanks in advance.

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Correct answer Jeff Arola

The 5K is a little better but the 8K is what I used in my attachment in my

last reply. As I mentioned, I have Capture One and it's icons and text are

at a normal size as I hope you can see in the attachment with the 8K

monitor. I just wonder why Adobe can't do that with Photoshop?

On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 11:11 PM Jeff Arola <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

Try the following and hopefully the results will be better:

1. In the pse 14 editor go to Edit>Preferences>Display & Cursors and set the UI Scale Factor to Small-100%

Then quit the pse 14 editor.

2. Go to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 14, right click on the PhotoshopElementsEditor.exe

click on Properties>Compatibility>Change high DPI Settings>Override high DPI scaling behavior>System Enhanced.

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I have been using Photoshop Elements 11 for years on an older computer (upgraded to Windows 10) and recently installed it on a new one. I got the tiny icons-menus problem. Method 2 above fixed it completely. Thank you Jeff.

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s_T_s

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Hi all,

I tried the

'Edit>Preferences>Display & Cursors, set the UI Scale Factor to Large-200% and restart (PSE)'

method and it worked like a charm for me. This was in PSE 19 and was driving me mad as the icons had been getting smaller and smaller over the past few days.

Many thanks to Jeff Arola.

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sipson

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Thanks for this solution. Adobe needs to AT LEAST promote this so that it is found in a FAQ or something promonent. I have a 1920x1080 13" monitor on my Samsung notebook and Elements was the only one giving me menu font size problems. It was almost unusable. Frankly, there should be provisions for this in the Preferences options. At least I didn't have to fire up Tor and search the Dark Web to find your solution, but it seemed that way.

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peterm93786985

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Windows 10 using PSE 2 and PSE 10.

Icon size OK on PSE 2 but too small on PSE 10. However I decidied to uninstall and then renstall PSE 10, the small icon size remains and I now have a further problem: I get the PSE 10 screen OK but as soon as I click File the whole PSE 10 disappears. Re loading it just causes a repeat.

Jeff Arola

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What adobe application and operating system are you using?

brucer92058711Author

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Elements 14.

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Steerpike58

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Try the following and hopefully the results will be better:

1. In the pse 14 editor go to Edit>Preferences>Display & Cursors and set the UI Scale Factor to Small-100%

Then quit the pse 14 editor.

2. Go to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 14, right click on the PhotoshopElementsEditor.exe

click on Properties>Compatibility>Change high DPI Settings>Override high DPI scaling behavior>System Enhanced.

I tried installing my existing PE 14 on my new windows 11 laptop, but ran into driver issues so decided it was time to try the new version - PE 2022. I installed it, and the menu text was monstrously large. I changed the setting in Preferences / Display and Cursors and set UI Scale Factor to Small-100%; now the text is microscopic. I then changed it to 200% - back to being too large. So then I went to the program location, and modified the properties of the executable file, setting properties/comatibility/high DPI settings/Override high DPI scaling behavior/system (enhanced) - no change - text is still either too small or too large.

My laptop has a 2560x1600 resolution, and I've set scaling in windows to 175%. Every other application I've run so far on the laptop behaves 'perfectly normally' - the menus and text are 'just right'. I read this article where Adobe are saying how excited they are to have worked with Microsoft to get scaling 'just right' ... "Photoshop on Windows 10 Creator’s Edition now offers a full range of choices for UI scale factors from 100% through 400%, in 25% increments.". So was this feature not added to PE?

Basically, 100% is too small, 200% is too big. There are dozens of Adobe support threads that agree with this - all saying exactly the same - 100% too small, 200% too big. This one example - Solved: Photoshop scaling issues - Adobe Support Community - 8925179 suggests it can be addressed by creating a 'manifest' file. Would this work for PE 2022?

Here's a screenshot of my display showing PE at 100%, plus excel and notepad for reference. Compare the 'File/Edit/xxx' rows for the three apps.

At 200%, the File/Edit/Image ... row becomes 'reasonable', but then the drop-down menus are monstrous, and the amount of space taken up by the 'layers' bucket on the right is massive.

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