Photoshop Elements UI font too small on high-resolution display

I have the same problem.....Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro QHD+ 3200x1800. Please help.

Unfortunately there is no option in PSE to vhange the UI fonts (other than switching to System Font' in preferences. So traditionally changing the Windows display font size has been the only workaround, and even that can cause problems with individual menus disappearing and being replaced with a hard to spot  >> drop-down menu.

If you have a dual-display system you could have the menus on the lower resolution screen with images on the hi-res.

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Dear crew !! ..any news on that?? ..official fix??

I paid a lot of money for registrationkeys that are totally useless! I

3-4 months of workingtime to scale the fonts?? fix??

regards from Austria !

Same Problem here

Samsung Ativ Book Pro 9

Lightroom looks Great / Photoshop & Dreamweaver not.

How long will a fix take ? As i see the problem exists for quite a Time

I have the exact same Problem.

Dell XPS15 laptop with a QHD+ (3200x1800) running Windows 8.1 and just purchased Photoshop Elements 12.

Any solution?

The program is very hard to use with the small menu font.

If there is no solution I will cancel the purchase.

Cheers

i had a call last week with the cloud team. they said the team is working on a solution.

Yesterday the update for dreamweaver came and works on QHD Displays - so i´m looking forward that PS & PSE will follow soon

Thanks for the information.

That sounds promising.

Than I hope it will not take to long for the PS and PSE update which supports HiDPI displays.

Does an administrator here maybe know a time line?

I tried working yesterday with PSE on QHD+ display and it is just a pain.

Cheers

At the weekend I installed the Adobe Photoshop Elements 12.1 Update.

But it does not solved the high resolution problem (HiDPI displays).

I thing I have to look for an alternative. Any suggestions?

I have a Yoga 2 and have the same issue.  The program is only usable for the simplest of tasks.  Very irritating.

I also have this problem on Dell XPS 15.  Hopefully they will fix PSE to recognize this screen resolution soon.

I deactivated and uninstalled PSE today and installed the 30 day test version auf Lightroom.

Lightroom works fine with HiDPI displays, found so fare only two minor resolution problems, but nothing really annoying.

Now I wait for Adope to refund me PSE, before I purchase Lightroom.

So, I'm out.

I got PSE refunded and switched to Lightroom.

I got the information from Adobe, that HiDPI support is still not on the road map for PSE 12 and will be coming with PSE 13.

Cheers

I cant believe this product is stil being sold! It is not fit for purpose anymore and without a well comunicated factoryfix timeline it should be removed from sale. this is very frustrating as a life long user of this product i now have to try to learn a brand new piece of software.. is Lightbox the general concensis on a valid alternative?

Totally frustrating!  I just purchased a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro with the anticipation of utilizing Lightroom 5 to edit photos.  Unless I adjust my screen resolution to accommodate Lightroom, I can barely see any of the functions.  Adobe needs to fix this a.s.a.p.  This is ridiculous!  Remove the products from the shelf or at the very least, put a big disclaimer in the shopping cart.  It's hard to believe software companies as innovative as Adobe and Microsoft have yet to figure this debacle out.  As usual, the customer is on the losing end!

just in case anyone at photoshop cares, I too got the Yoga last week  finally getting to set up and cant read the print!! Sameful there is no fix and a man landed on the moon HOW long ago???  I sure wil not upgrade to another adobe product for editing unless this is fixed PDQ...

Hello  is anyone at adobe working on this,?  You do not appear to be up to speed with technology...

I have a Dell XPS 27 hi-rez all in one decked out. Just up-dated to the NEW Photoshop CC 2014 and I can barely see the dam icons and texts as well! This is ridiculous! On top of that I have to now wait for all my plug ins to be updated so I can load them into the new Photoshop program!  I just had a shoot and had to run the old version to use them.This sucks...

I too, just bought a Yoga 2 Professional.  Love the machine, but I need a microscope to read the UI on Photoshop. Isn't this what Adobe does, make products to make digital content beautiful.  Why aren't they paying attention to this huge problem.  As an aside, Articulate Storyline has a similar problem, the UI is not quite as microscopic, but definitely difficult to use.  I hope this will be fixed soon.  In the meantime, I will use PowerPoint for my editing needs.

After an angry e-mail I got a response! They have a fix ( UI and font) to mock it up to 200% AND it works! I can look up the instructions when I get home if anyone is interested.

Now its toward the end of June.. Does anyone have an elements fix that works?

Sent from Windows Mail

please do let us all know!

Photoshop CC 2014 (NEW one) :Open Photoshop, edit, scroll down to preferences, experimental, check box to scale UI 200% and check touch box if you have a touch screen.

It worked for me but personally I would like the option to set the scale myself (say to 150%) but at least I can see things now. I don't have elements but I hope this helps, Mako.

That works perfectly for PS thanks very much! The option isn't there for any other program, I'm going blind looking at Premier Pro and AE. Any solution and I'd be forever in your debt

Hi there

Has a solution for Photoshop Elements been released?

It is in every way unlikely that adobe would ever issue this as an update to an existing PSE version, I'm afraid.

I have exactly the same issue. I've bought a Dell XPS15 laptop with a QHD+ (3200x1800) display. I'm running the latest version of Photoshop CC on Windows 8.1. The suggested fix by makosartor at Jul 1, 2014 6:41 AM is working for me but I'm yet to download other programs in the package such as InDesign and Dreamweaver. Sort yourselves out Adobe!

I just subscribed to Photoshop CC 2014 Ver 2.1.  I can not find the location of EXPERMENTAL in order to change the GUI setting.  What is the latest and greatest version of Photoshop CC?  Where is the EXPERMENTAL selection.  I'm not an idiot, but PS sure make me feel like one.

Stepperheimer ...

I don't know about version 2.1.  Make sure you have Photoshop CC 2014.1 (august). 

Select (menu) edit/preferences.  Then from side menu popup, select General (top selection).  Select Experimental Features from list on left and edit in right pane as per makosartor instructions above.

Alternatively, select Experimental Features directly from side menu (second from botton selection) and edit resulting window as per Makosartor instructions.

Save result, (OK)

... I've been waiting for almost a year for this fix for my Yoga 2 Pro. Great to have it.

I too have a Yoga 2 pro and am TRYING!!! to use elements 12.  I have 20-20 vision but apparently that is nowhere good enough since I can't read much of PSE 12.  It seems to me that Adobe could do better by at least letting us know when we will be able to use PSE 12.  Since PSE 12 is due to be replaced by PSE 13 in a few weeks, can we expect that the new version will have a fix.  Can we also expect that ADOBE will replace our non functioning PSE 12 with 13 for free.  I know ................. I am just dreaming .................. bearing in mind how inadequately this problem has been addressed by Adobe.

200% is way too big for my laptop. 

Same problem on an EIZO 27-inch screen 2560x1440, the size of tools PSE10 becomes very small, there he has a trick to have tools comfortably sized?

I have this on my Lenovo Yoga Pro 2. In the store, the high resolution seemed so obviously great, but in practice, there is so much software that runs with serious GUI problems.

Has anyone yet tried PSE 13?? Supposed to cure this problem. (Picture editing software | Adobe Photoshop Elements 13 - Features search for DPI)

-kc

Hi kaare

I am going to try the pe13 - will probably order it in a couple of weeks

- check back.  I also have the problem with Quicken and several other

programs.

Karin

I just installed photoshop on my Lenovo yoga and the same thing.

I am infuriated. I cant see the icons, and need the resolution for my photo editing!

This is typical non-compatible computer bulls##t. I bought pse 12 in July and bought lenovo yoga 2 in September and now pse12 is unusable due to micro font size . they are blatantly selling a product which is now unfit for purpose.  I have tried contacting Adobe with  no joy. Emails unanswered and their "chat" service is an absolute joke. Looks like they have some guy sitting in a shed in Bangladesh dealing with 20 complainants at the same time. I am going to wrap my pse 12 contents in toilet paper and send it back to them which might give them a hint what I think of their product and so called customer service.

Note for PS CC, the "experimental" fix identified above has been removed from the latest release, so PS CC is now back on par with PS Elements - tiny icons.

So, some users with the previous release may not to "upgrade" to the latest. Too late for me. 

I am running the latest PS CC 2014.2.0 r236 and still have Experimental Features in Preferences and there is a UI 200% option, still.

Thanks ssprengel,  my error.  I have two versions of PS CC on my computer, and I opened the wrong one after update. Indeed, the experimental 200% option is still available and works pretty well on Yoga Pro 2.

Apologies to all for the incorrect post.

can anybody recommend an alternative to photoshop elements 12 ? is it too much to ask for photo editing software (which adobe are still selling) which works with modern high res displays ?

I am looking for a non-adobe alternative because their customer service is a disgrace ! I have emailed them and got no reply and when I finally got through to their chat "support" I was told to go to these forums.all I am getting here  are people like me asking the same questions with no answers.

Yes DxO is very good and Capture ONE too.

http://www.dxo.com/fr

Capture One Pro 8