Photoshop: Menu too small on Windows high res display

It worked! Thanks, man!!

Abbas Zakeri less than a minute ago
HI
If you have 2 photoshop in system you have this problem run old verstion and run photoshop cc2014 then close old phtopshop and clos photoshop 2014 and find photoshop.exe on location then right clik on icon select compatibility chek mark run whit win 7 and chek mark run 256 color then chek mar run 640 clik ok and open yor photoshops
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David, you know very well that the above-mentioned setting does NOT affect the menus, which is what people are complaining about here. While it DOES control other UI elements, the menus are still flyspeck or gigantor.

This fix works for me with all ADOBE Apps which open with tiny fonts in Hi Res screens - for Win 10 Creators Edition –
1. Right click on App > Properties > Compatibility Tab > Check "Override Hig SPI scaling behavior" > Select “System” from dropdown box.
2. Open App > Edit > Preferences > Interface Tab > Select Font Size “Automatic (default) > OK
Restart App and all will be well.

Thank you for your solution, Gary! After many attempts to solve this issue, your solution has worked perfectly. This is awesome! 

Did you enable the 200% scaling for Windows in CC 2014 preferences?

It sounds like you just didn't turn on the feature you were looking for.

Nothing works - plenty of complaints online about this flaw. Adobe need to fix it. PS CC 2014 is unusable on my monitor

This comment is for chris cox. So you probably remember me from the other forum and my complains. As far as I remember you mentioned I need to upgrade to CC 2014 to solve my issues with high resolution displays. As I read more here, it is clear that your recommendation does not solve my problem. It seems that you dont even know your own software company that you are working for. Your title in this forum is "Sr. Computer Scientist" so maybe people expect a more smarter answer. Seriously? Are you recommending to go as high as 200% scaling to fix the small menu text problem? adobe products are not the only software people use on their PCs. You are saying make everything gigantic but dont worry about everything else. as long as our software looks fine then there wouldnt be any problems. You are missing the point and the fact that why people are using high resolution monitors. If they want to make everything too big, this would kill the whole purpose of using a high resolution monitor. They might as well go back to a 1920 by 1080 resolution. How about some smart answers that actually helps people who paid and purchased your company's software? REALLY

See this post: http://neoshamon.blogspot.ca/2015/06/...

The post is in Arabic!

See this post: http://neoshamon.blogspot.ca/2015/06/...

too bad there isnt anything higher than 200%. Otherwise adobe would recommend it.

This works: http://neoshamon.blogspot.ca/2015/06/...

This has been going on for several years.  Seems to me that if Adobe wants to charge a monthly membership fee, they should fix this yesterday.  No reason it can't be fixed.  Everything is fixable if it's a high enough priority.  Please, Photoshop, FIX this problem.  Otherwise, will we be getting a discount because we can't use your software?

Hi Karen, You’re posting on a thread that covers old versions. Current versions scale all the way up to 400%: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/...

I am sorry to hear that, John and Jaki. Adobe's solution is to go to 200% UI upscaling. The draw back is that everything will be super gigantic which by the way kills the main purpose of having a big screen.

But dont you worry, you can fix this by adjusting your distance from the screen and sitting back at least 5 feet from the display.

See this post. It takes a little savvy, but works: http://neoshamon.blogspot.ca/2015/06/...

I would. They sell you a software that is not working based on what you expect.

I am sorry to hear that Linda. I think adobe's solution to this would be to ask all their customers to sit back at least 4 feet away from the screen. That way everything would look normal.

See: http://neoshamon.blogspot.ca/2015/06/...

See: http://neoshamon.blogspot.ca/2015/06/...

Phil good luck getting an answer from these guys.

I seriously cant tell what they are getting paid for? I am guessing not answering customers problems. Good job you two. Chris and Jeffrey

If you have time you can go back 3 years and see how very old this issue is.

The older requests were for people with vision problems, not about newer high res displays. And we could not ship a solution for UI scaling until Microsoft worked with us to address the scaling problems in the Windows APIs. We had been working with Microsoft on the issues for quite some time.

Chris, accusing people of having vision problems on this forum is a sort of profanity. I think you should voluntarily remove your own comment.

Just saying since you are so quick on the delete button

See this: http://neoshamon.blogspot.ca/2015/06/...

Have you enabled the 200% UI scaling in preferences?

do you know if windows offers anything over 200%? Maybe 400% might work better

nice solution Chris

Chris I'll have to say all these users here spend a lot of their presious time to write their frustration on this forum and the only reply that I see from you who happens to be a Sr. Computer Scientists at adobe, is about two lines and nothing more than "enable the 200% UI scaling"

I think you spend a lot of time answering people's questions, I recommend just copy and paste your two lines of answer to save some time for yourself.

Not mentioning that they actually paid a high price for a useless software from adobe so I think it would be more professional if you address them more properly.

Really? 200% scaling

No, because Photoshop CC 2014 contains a solution for the UI scaling issue on Windows.

It sounds to me like it doesn't help, from what misterjacket says. So even if I took the financial plunge (Which my employer won't do) I"d still be up a creek without being able to see my menus.

It does help for high res displays on Windows.

Lucy they say upgrade to CC 2014 but even when you do that, it doesnt fix your problem. They recommend that you use a 200% scaling. Thats would be fine if you want to fix photoshop a little but if you dont mind to deal with giant everything else.

Chris is an expert on this. He can explain it better

See this; it works:http://neoshamon.blogspot.ca/2015/06/...

It's been going on between the time that high resolution displays appeared on Windows, and when Microsoft fixed the OS APIs to support UI scaling or provided ways to work around the OS bugs. And many other applications are still having problems.

Again, this has already been addressed in Photoshop CC 2014.

I do NOT want to be on CC... I need access to PS offline (work in rural areas sometimes). Besides... other CC users seem to have the problem too. Will just have to find another software to use (not Adobe since they don't seem to care to fix this issue).

You can still use Photoshop offline even with CC. That hasn't changed.

Again, the high res display issues was already addressed in Photoshop CC 2014.

No it hasn't - on my monitor the menu is either too small to see - or if you use the 200% feature too gigantic. Not a problem in PS CC, ONLY in PS CC 2014.

I downloaded the trial version of PS CC 2014 and the "tiny" problem still exists. Regardless, folks that paid big bucks for adobe products and don't want to pay big bucks to upgrade should not have to deal with this issue. Saying something is addressed in a software that a person has to buy is not an acceptable answer.