Photoshop: Menu too small on Windows high res display

This is an absolute disgrace that Photoshop will not acknowledge this obvious problem of menu being so small especially text menu you can hardly read them a simple solution yet beyond them! And there option of edit>preferences then "experimental" 200% UI scaling makes everything so huge impossible to work with and you lose areas to work with what idiots around a table bright sparks choose no other smaller options then 200%
Oh my god words fail me.... beggars belief from a global multi- million dollar company still no solution for something that CAN so, so easily be fixed! Yet over year still same thing despite countless people telling them....
Clearly they have such contempt for their own customers let alone that pay them their wages

This is an absolute disgrace that Photoshop will not acknowledge this obvious problem of menu being so small especially text menu you can hardly read them a simple solution yet beyond them!
And their option of edit>preferences then "experimental" 200% UI scaling a total joke....makes everything so huge impossible to work with and you lose areas to see and work with.....so what idiots around a table bright sparks choose no other smaller options then 200% ?!
Oh my god words fail me.... beggars belief from a global multi- million dollar company still no solution for something that CAN so, so easily be fixed! Yet over year still same thing despite countless people telling them....
Clearly they have such contempt for their own customers let alone that pay them their wages

Adobe has to ultimately rely on the OS for arbitrary scaling and so far they have only been able to get 200% to work with what Microsoft has given them, which is incomplete support.

Are you running PS CC 2015 or something earlier?

Hey everyone! Here's the solution! I've suffered with this problem for quite a while and found a way to fix it: http://neoshamon.blogspot.com/2015/06...

Neo Shamon posted a brilliant and simple solution to this problem on his blog (PS 6). My NEC 4K monitor is set to 3480x2160. I just followed his easy directions and BINGO it works beautifully! Thanks a MILLION, Neo!!! Tools were practically microscopic prior to implementation. Now they are perfect! Here's the link...

http://neoshamon.blogspot.com/2015/06...

Gary I love you

Somebody needed to tell him that bc it works now

I wish I lived close to adobe labs. If so I'd drive there with my machine and have them show me that changing menu size in windows effects the menus in PS.

No matter what menu size I set in windows, PS remains unaffected. And I've tried in on 5 other PC's just to make sure it's not only my machine.

Hey, this isn't a complaint but rather an observation

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Photoshop Font Size too big or too small on high-res monitor.

I have a color-calibrated, high resolution monitor (2560 x 1440) on Windows 7 64-bit SP1, and the font size on Photoshop is either too large or too small. I've tried all the UI Font Size and UI Scaling options, and restarted PS each time, and no matter what I pick, the font is either too tiny to see without getting very close to the screen, or so large that only a small portion of the UI is left visible for the photo (i.e. it's not practical to use PS to edit photos). I've also been through all the Windows controls for font size. They don't fix the PS issue, they simply mess up the fonts for all the other applications. Lightroom and all my other applications (email, browsers, word processing, etc.) look fine on this monitor, it's only Photoshop fonts that are problematic. I've called support multiple times about this issue, and they always say sorry, it will be fixed in the next release, but the next release comes and it's never fixed. I updated PS again today (Aug. 6, 2015) and have the latest, and it's still not fixed. Today support suggested I ask the question here to get a better estimate as to if and when this will be fixed. Can someone help? BTW, if I use Photoshop on my second monitor (1920 x 1080), the fonts work reasonably well. But I'd sure like to use my expensive, color-calibrated monitor with PS--that's why I bought it.
Please advise, and thanks.

Looks like my question got merged with this thread. It's not clear to me that this is Answered or solved. Am I missing something?

Hi,

This will help http://www.danantonielli.com/adobe-ap...

Works on windows 10 as well.

Has any solution for this issue been found or implemented yet?
I've updated from Windows 7 to Windows 10, and yesterday hooked up my Dell 2414Q, high-resolution 4K. Upon opening my PS CS5 found the problem of the small icons, menu & task bar staring me in the face.
I lowered the resolution, but there was hardly any improvement at all. And the UI thing didn't work.
So is hacking my registry, which I'm not experienced enough to try, or using the magnifier the only other tricks of the trade to try?
I'm tired of squinting, which makes me look as though I'm suffering from constipation....according to my husband. I thought about purchasing special binoculars, but haven't quite figure out how to attach them to my face in order to keep my hands free for illustrative work in ps.
Keeping the faith.....Dody

Hi I have Photoshop cs6 and I think that I have solved the problem. Adobe deleted my comment saying that my solution would not help with scaling. I want to point out that the problem here is that the menu and tools are really small and I can solve this.

I have Dell XPS 13 2015 with QHD+ screen.



Follow the instructions here: http://www.danantonielli.com/adobe-ap...

Please do not delete this. I want to help people. Let them at least try this. There is nothing in this tutorial that could harm your PC anyway . Simply undo the changes you made if the desired outcome is not achieved.

I hope my comment will not be deleted this time.

Chris,
Thank you for the response. So what you are saying is that there is/was a compatibility problem between Photoshop software & high resolution monitors, causing my small icon problem?
And Adobe has addressed the issue with an update provided in PS CC 2014.2.x (as stated above), and I can download this update for free to fix the compatibility problem? I just click on the link above that you supplied.....this won't affect my PS CS5 in any way will it?

Thanks Again

This topic is marked "Answered". There appear to be at least some customers for which the "answer" (i.e. the Photoshop CC 2014 200% UI Scaling feature) did not resolve the issue.

I've opened a new, unanswered topic named "Photoshop CC 2015 UI font scaling produces font sizes too big or too small on high-res monitors (not fixed by PS CC 2014 UI font scaling feature)" in the hope that the remaining issue(s) can be tracked there until resolved. Below I've attempted to add a link to the new topic.

Photoshop CC 2015 UI font scaling produces font sizes too big or too small on high-res monitors (not fixed by PS CC 2014 UI font scaling feature)

If you are one of the customers still having problems, please go to the new topic and record your issue there.

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Still No Solution to Font/Icon Size on High Resolution Monitors - Really!?!.

So disappointed at the failure of Adobe to fix the menu font and icon incompatibility in Photoshop for high resolution monitors. I have complained about this for two years (back to the CS6 days) and the user groups across the web are full of like complaints.

Now even with a new CC 2015 and Windows 10 the problem is still unresolved. The PS screen either has 7 pt labels on microscopic icons or 30% of the screen real estate is taken up by the 200% UI resolution option. I would give up all of the CC 2015 updates for solution to this one problem which makes using PS stressful and frustrating instead of the pleasure it should be.

There is nothing that Adobe talent can't fix. You can fix this, if you care to. Obviously whatever your development systems are, you are not living with this issue or you would have addressed it.