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tedco
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October 17, 2021
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Menu fonts in Elements 2022

  • October 17, 2021
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Just purchased the new Photoshop Elements 2022 and noticed the rather large fonts used in the various drop down menus.

Compared to 2021 version, they are huge as far as I am concerned..

I have tried to Change high DPI settings in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 2022 but does not work.

My monitor is a Dell 27" at 3840 x 2160 resolution.

Any way to get 2022 to look like 2021 ?

Any help is greatly appreciated

    Correct answer Snarltoof

    to follow up - the above is premiere elements but still how am I supposed to alter text size in that programme?

     

    Also, I made the alteration in photoshop elements and it was awful - selecting "large" created huge text in the drop down menus but all the text in eg. menu headings and buttons remained too small.


    Me too.

    I found a solution that works for me -- go to the shortcut icon, right click, open Properties, then go to the Compatibility tab.  There's a high DPI button there.  

    In the "High DPI scaling override" section, check the "override high DPI" box, and choose "System" from the dropdown. 

    I'm way happier with the results.

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    Gabrielle28486472pzv5
    Participant
    February 19, 2023

    I have the same problems in Elements 2023 on a Surface 5 Laptop. None of these fixes worked. 

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      Robin25081851swao
      Participant
      June 30, 2022

      I'm just going to reinstall the former version until there's a fix. I tried everything and this is just awful the way that this update has turned out.

       

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        Dave24357315zf8k
        Participant
        May 7, 2022

        This issue has made the product almost unusable.  For a product that deals with graphics it is amazing the developers can't figure out how to do fractional scaling of the UI.  A 150% option would probably fix this.

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          Spainy53
          Participating Frequently
          January 3, 2022

          ALL OTHER applications I use have approximately the same text size in menu drop-downs as the menus from which they drop.  ALL of them.

          More to the point:  So did PhotoShop Elements 2018 right up to the moment I uninstalled it today.

          PSE 2022 is different. 

          This is NOT a Windows setting.  This nonconformity is exclusive to PSE 2022, so the fix must be applied to this application, not the OS.

          Ball is in your court, Adobe.


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            defaultcafkjlbytuha
            Participant
            January 13, 2022

            I find much of the text in PSE22 too small, but it offers me no option to alter it in "preferences". Where is the option to amend "Diplay and cursor" settings???

             

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            Spainy53
            Participating Frequently
            February 12, 2022

            I was able to reverse it.  Did you hit "Apply" when you made the changes?


            Indeed I did use [Apply].

            After wrangling with this thing a half hour or so, I decided to uninstall PSE 2022 (taking care to remove Preferences in the the process!) and reinstall it.

            Whew!

            Those gigantic drop-downs never looked so good.

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            Adobe Employee
            Priyanshi Handa
            Adobe Employee
            October 18, 2021

            Hello,

             

            This used to be an issue wherein fonts used to appear very small on high DPI set-up. We have fixed this issue in PSE 2022.

            If you do not wish to see large font size in drop downs, you can change the UI Scale factor of the application to 'Small - 100%' from Edit >  Preferences > Display & Cursors. Please relaunch the application to see the changes.

             

            Thanks,

            Priyanshi

             

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              tedcoAuthor
              Participant
              October 19, 2021

              Thanks for your reply, 

              I have Elements 2021 and this has exactly the same High Density Displays UI Scale Factor as Elements 2022.

              The fonts on the various menus in 2021 is much more user friendly than in 2022, so not sure as to what have been fixed in 2022.

              Thanks

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                Raymond23270675k951
                Participant
                February 22, 2022

                Each year since 2018 Adobe adds a major bug to Photoshop Elements. The submenu fonts in Photoshop Elements 2022 is a major disaster. 

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