Photoshop UI very small in Macbook Pro

On a macbook pro (late 2013) in Windows 8.1 via boot camp, Photoshop UI is extremely small while other Adobe apps size just right...why?
And, what can I do to fix this?

Retina (high density / high dpi) display?
Try Edit- Preferences - Experimental Features, 200%.
-Noel

Similar Messages

Photoshop CS5 very slow performance, MacBook Pro i7

Hi, I've noticed some posts on slow screen redraw, but my issue seems to be with specific performance with web based files having many layers and layer groups.
A sample file is a 27mb psd. It has lot of layers (525), mostly type layers (limited to 3-4 typefaces in the file) and layer groups. If I select a particularly large layer group and try to move it on the canvas, I get the Adobe throbber cursor icon for at least 20 seconds. Even small layer groups bring up the throbber cursor for a few seconds. Overall, things seem much slower than CS4. Not good! And I'm just speaking of basic operations, not hitting intensive tools or major filters yet.
I've looked at the site below, but not much information except the option to purchase some scripts to 'warm-up' Photoshop. After what I spent on Design Premium, I don't think I should have to purchase third party scripts to warm it up. (I did experiment with the tiles option under performance pref's, but upping that made opening files take 2 minutes, where before opening was achieved in 10-15 seconds.
http://macperformanceguide.com/index_topics.html#OptimizingPhotoshopCS5
I have a brand new MacBook Pro i7, 8GB, 7200 internal drive. I installed everything from a fresh install of Snow Leopard. CS4 has never been installed on this Mac.
Any thoughts?

if you have 4GB RAM, the system would need about 1-2GB,
so if you quit all other apps and only run PS, it has 2-3GB RAM left.
you can set RAM-usage in percentage, in the settings menu of photoshop,
i set it to 70%, the rest is for osx.
so lets say PS uses 2GB RAM in your case, the more hires images you open at once and the more layers they have,
and the bigger they are, the 2GB RAM are gone and PS will use the scratch disc for the mentioned images you opened at once, which is also configured in the settings menu. usage of a scratch disc (PS writes data to the scratch disc permanently) will slow down overall performance, it may lagg and everything is slower than before (in my experience). best for scratch disc usage is a separate, fast, internal disc, as huge as possible (50-250GB discsize and empty, no files on it, so that PS can write continously, in order to avoid disc-fragmentation, which would slow down the writing process additionally)
thats the reason i would add 8GB RAM.
RAM is very important for photoshop CS5.
(also processor clock speed and number of cores - in the moment 2 cores are enough
as CS5 isnt optimized yet for more than 4 or 6 cores. more to come soon, i hope...
in my case, i added 24GB RAM, cause i want to avoid usage of a scratch disc at all. this is a huge gain of performance for myself.
i never liked my old scratch disc, as working was terrible slow with it. i also had only 4GB RAM in my last mac, and working was no fun
i work on large format files, 50-100cm at 300dpi and lots of layers, each layer has to be seen like an image itself, so each layer rises RAM consumption.
its a pitty that i never saw adobe delivering some kind of performance guide for photoshop, how to improve performance for professional users, like posting that guide on their main photoshop site, i had to digg for these informations for a long period of time and found it in the end at diglloyd´s comprehensive site. i wonder why adobe makes a secret about photoshop performance, a lot of my friends at work mentioned formerly, that they have had huge lag issues and dont know where to begin solving these problems, which are solvable for sure.... (new hardware, proper settings and so on)
you can read detailed instructions, on how to speed up things in PS here: (where i took it for myself)
http://macperformanceguide.com/index_topics.html
subtopic:
http://macperformanceguide.com/OptimizingPhotoshopCS5-Intro.html
enjoy your new macbookpro!
peter

Photoshop Elements 4.0 on macbook pro?

Hi!
Anyone know if it is possible to install Photoshop Elements 4.0 on macbook pro 10.6.4? Cause when I install it, restart computer, open the application then it says that something is invalid, name, licence nr, ... But I know that everything is correct and I tried to uninstall it and then again install it but the problem remains.
Any word of advice?

A quick Google search found the page below that states that PSE 4.0 is NOT compatible with Leopard so it is certainly not compatible with Snow Leopard.
If you need PSE, you are going to have to upgrade to a newer version
http://isource.com/2008/02/04/adobe-photoshop-elements-40-not-compatible-with-le opard/
|___________________
Allan

Is it possible to install photoshop 6.0 (CD) on macbook pro?

Is it possible to install photoshop 6.0 (CD) on macbook pro?
Is it possible to install photoshop 5.0 (CD) on macbook pro?

March 23, 2013
Adobe
To whom it may concern,
I'm not sure how unique my situation is but let me briefly explain. In a prior life I was a photographer (about 12 years ago). At that time I had purchased Photoshop and upgraded it a couple of times. When I stopped photographing I was up to photoshop 5 with the CD and appropriate serial numbers. Recently I decided to get back to photography and went to install Photoshop 5 on my computer (MacBook Pro) but it was not compatible. What can I do to use it. I do not really want a newer version especially at full cost. My first preference is to somehow install Photoshop 5 even if there was some cost to the adaptation process. If this is not possible (hard to believe, as we've put men on the moon) then at some compromise cost I am willing to upgrade. But again, this is not my first choice. As I completely understand that you would not want to allow customers to skip numbers of additions at a fixed upgrade cost, you must understand that I really don't want or need the current version. I simply want to be able to use what I have purchased, even if it is out-dated.
I look forward to hearing from you, as I would like to solve this issue legitimately.
Sincerely,
Erik Simmons

How do I convert Adobe Photoshop elements 12 to my macbook pro? [was: Need Help!!]

How do I convert Adobe Photoshop elements 12 to my macbook pro?? Note: my pro doesn't have a disk drive

Download the Mac version from the Adobe website
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=photoshop_elements&loc=en
Install then enter your serial number to license the software on your computer.

Photoshop elements 12 on my MacBook pro cannot uploading Raw pictures.

Photoshop elements 12 on my MacBook pro cannot uploading Raw pictures.

Have you updated the application?
Go to expert mode and from the top menu click:
Help >> Updates
Install camera raw 8.4 if available

Dictation isn't very accurate on MacBook Pro - my iPad does much better

Dictation isn't very accurate on MacBook Pro - my iPad does much better. Is anyone else having the same issues ?

Sure - it's not really meant to be a full-fledged dictation software solution. If that's what you're looking for you can purchase the just released (I think) Dragon Dicate 4 for Mac. At $200 it's not cheap but I've used it on Windows-based machines and it does, as advertised, deliver 99% accuracy.
It's also very important to have a good USB mic/headphone set. The one that comes with Dragon will do but I prefer the Microsoft LifeChat LX-3000 headset.
Good luck,
Clinton

Ist Photoshop CS3 Extended auf einem Macbook pro mit retina problemlos verwendbar?

Hallo,
mich interessiert, ob Photoshop CS3 Extended auf einem Macbook pro mit retina problemlos verwendbar ist?
Ich würde mich sehr über eine Antwort freuen.
Martin

Nein, ist es nicht. Erst mit CC werden Retina-Displays unterstützt, CS3 läuft auf aktuellen Versionen auch nicht mehr.

How to transfer adobe photoshop elements13 from PC to MacBook Pro?

How to transfer photoshop elements13 from PC to MacBook Pro?

PSE 13 Trial - http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=photoshop_elements

Why icons and text on photoshop are very small, (i checked edit preferences interface)

why icons and text on photoshop are very small, (i checked edit>preferences>interface)

In summary:
1. You have a "high dpi" screen. The advantages to this are that things that are painted on the screen in a reasonable size will be made up of a lot of pixels, and will be very crisp and clean looking.
2. Photoshop has not yet embraced "high dpi" operation. It's complex to do so, in that Adobe has to rewrite the software for all the controls on the screen to be able to use more pixels. That's not to say it's impossible, it's actually fairly straightforward for a given control - but there are a HUGE number of controls in many, many different places in the application.
Adobe has said they're working on it, and have made some noise about Microsoft not having supplied everything they need to succeed at the full reimplementation. But the current version does not have the ability to size itself up to be a reasonable size on your "high dpi" display.
That said, if you really, really want Photoshop to be "magnified up" to where all the controls (AND the pixels in the image you're editing) are much larger on your display, there is a workaround/hack... It's a bit geeky and requires registry editing, and one day when Photoshop really does gain "high dpi" support you'll need to remove the hack, but here it is:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/5962765#5962765
I can't vouch for its performance, but it might make it usable for you in the interim.
-Noel

My very expensive 2010 MacBook Pro hard drive died over a year ago (never bothered to fix it as the dvd drive had also failed so not worth it). Nevertheless, I finally decided to sync my iPhone to the replacement laptop pc and it wiped out all the music

My very expensive 2010 MacBook Pro hard drive died over a year ago. I finally synced my iPhone to the replacement laptop pc and it wiped out all the music on the phone including most of the purchases. Can I get the music back (restore didn't help)?

Okay, I finally got the couple of songs left on the phone to play by uninstalling and reinstalling itunes on the pc and re syncing. The last version I installed (just prior to my original post) failed to start due to some unspecified error?!?. Great!. But I still couldn't sync the itunes purchases from the PC to the iPhone. Then, after about an hour of googling and reading assorted posts mostly about using google to resolve the issue, I finally figured out that I have to actually download ALL the purchased albums from iCloud back onto the iPhone! There are hundreds of them, and some are not even available anymore.
Why do I have to do that when I originally purchased and downloaded all the music to the phone? Why are they all on the PC to begin with and why won't they go to the phone via the USB cable? Why didn't all the music get wiped out on the phone when I synced with the dodgy itunes I had to uninstall. never mind.
I accept that all my original music from cds and shared collections is gone on the failed mbp hard drive, but how come this once okay experience has become a trauma? Hundreds of songs to download all over again, sheesh, this has not exactlybeen a "That Was Easy" experience guys.

PSE 13 UI Very Small on Surface Pro 3

I am running Photoshop Elements 13 on a Surface Pro 3, the UI is very small, not useable. How can this be adjusted?

Hi Keith,
Elements 13.1 provides manual control for settings 200% scaling for HiDPI:
Choose 200% and see if it resolves your issue.
Choose Help>Updates... to install the PSE13.1 update.
Thanks,
Anwesha

Photoshop CS5.1 Pixelated on Macbook Pro Retina Display

Hello!
I am a photography student who just bought a new macbook pro retina display. I use Photoshop a lot for my course so need help with this as quick as possible.
Everything on Photoshop seems to be pixelated which is not ideal right now. I also have an iMac which runs the same version of Photoshop and that is absolutely fine, never had a problem. My friend suggested downloading a trial version of the CC as this automatically sorted hers out but did not mine. Any suggestions at all will be SO helpful as I've researched into this problem and are yet to find an answer!

Very simple. The hiDPI Macintoshes and MacOS support for same were released after CS6 was released. Some of the CS6 applications got upgrades to support these hiDPI displays; others including InDesign did not get such upgrades until the CC 2013 version.
Sorry, but there is not anything you can do about this with CS5-vintage software.
- Dov

Photoshop CS2 keeps crashing on MacBook Pro running snow leopard

I have been using CS2 on my MacBook Pro for more than two years. Just two days ago, the Photoshop application began to UNEXPECTEDLY QUIT every time I opened it. All other apps in the CS2 are working fine. I have NEVER had a problem with the CS2 or this application. I did download a trial of QuarkXpress 9 and a trial of Office for Mac 2011, but that should not have any effect on the CS2. I went to the Apple store and we reloaded my system software (Snow Leopard) and updated back to my original 10.6.8 system but Photoshop keeps quitting. I called Adobe tech support just now and we spent over 90 minutes, re-installed Version Que and still Photoshop keep quitting. We changed the Administrator and that had no effect, Photoshop keeps quitting. There is no common action that causes it. I can be cloning and it will freeze, I can flatten, cut and paste and save, then it quits. Any suggestions? I cannot afford to upgrade to CS5 and I am more concerned WHY this would happen out of the clear blue...I have not added any typefaces. Any suggestions?

Wilder Ideas wrote:
…why would the Rosetta bugs just miraculously show up now (after running on the same system for at least 6 months)…
Maybe you applied an update to your OS recently?
Illustrator is from a different planet, as are other point applications artificially lumped together into a "suite" by marketing fiat. How other applications behave is irrelevant.
You really, really need to upgrade.
I didn't want to upgrade beyond Photoshop CS4, so I stopped upgrading all my hardware and all my software. Therefore, I experience no problems whatsoever.
2.5 GHz Power Mac (PPC) G5-Quad; 16 GB RAM; mutant, flashed 550MHz nVidia GeForce 7800GTX, 1,700 MHz 512 MB VRAM; ATTO ExpressPCI UL5D LP SCSI card; Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11 and Leopard 10.5.8 boot drives; Spotblight, Dashboard and Time Machine permanently disabled; dual 22" CRT monitors; USB wireless 'n' available but connected to the Internet via wired Ethernet; FW flatbed scanner; 2 SCSI scanners (one tabloid-size transparency scanner and a film scanner); various internal & external HDs; FW Epson 2200 and Ethernet Samsung ML-2850ND printers; 2 x Back-UPS RS 1500 XS units. Photoshop 11.0.2. Illustrator 10.0.3, Acrobat Professional 8.3.1, InDesign 2.0.2 .
The fallacy is the attempt to get away with piecemeal upgrading—as in just the OS, or just the CPU.
Wo Tai Lao Le
我太老了

How do I install Adobe Photoshop Elements 12 on new MacBook Pro without DVD drive?

I just purchased my first MacBook Pro and am trying to get everything set up and installed. I purchased Adobe Photoshop Elements 12 and retrieved my serial number and have the redemption code -- but I can't figure out how to install Photoshop without a DVD drive. The Photoshop package I purchased only provides DVDs and I don't have a DVD drive. Is there a website I can go to to install Photoshop and enter my serial number or redemption code?

Have you tried downloading the trial version and using your serial
number to activate it?
The trial version is a complete product and can be activated by
inserting the valid serial number.
Good luck.

Photoshop UI very small in Macbook Pro

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for