Photoshop fonts

vince3 · 28 Oct 2006 at 17:21

I've just installed Photoshop Elements 5 tryout (30 days free) and the main window fonts are tiny on my 1680x1050 20" LCD. I mean the main menu bar stuff (File, Edit, etc), the tool 'popouts' - that is all operational text, and the 'Help' which appears to use an embedded version of the Opera browser.

Photoshop Preferences don't deal with this and Windows desktop settings have no effect at all, and neither does changing the screen resolution from 100 dpi to 120 or 150 etc.

This link which bleddyn posted shows the problem clearly http://bleddyn.co.uk/forums/ocuk/pshop.jpg
If you enlarge this to browser full screen it is pretty close to the real thing.

Fonts in the 'Text Tool' are fine - it's just the working stuff.

The Adobe Photoshop forum can't offer any help. I (and a lot of Phtotshop users over on their forum) would much appreciate any help or ideas.

whitecrook · 28 Oct 2006 at 23:28

That picture looks fine to me.

Perhaps the setting you are looking for is in Desktop properties -> appearance, then adjust font size in there.

fini · 28 Oct 2006 at 23:33

whitecrook said:
That picture looks fine to me.

fini

whitecrook · 29 Oct 2006 at 20:41

fini said:
fini

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fini · 30 Oct 2006 at 00:35

I was quoting the person above without making a comment (just signing off 'fini') meaning I agree entirely with the quote - I'm suprised you haven't noticed lots of other people doing it with nearly 500 posts behind you...

fini

whitecrook · 30 Oct 2006 at 01:25

I see. For some reason I thought you were the OP which confused me..

Never mind.

bledd · 30 Oct 2006 at 01:43

since you're using my picture i'll comment!

you mean the menu text/buttons are too small? they're just the right size in my opinion..

unless they're just teeny on your screen?

vince3 · 30 Oct 2006 at 16:51

I thinks it's tied up with the display resolution being 1680x1050 on a 20" screen and the fact that Photoshop they doesn't use Windows settings. I may install the product on another PC with a 17" CRT display and see how it looks there.

I noticed that changing from a 1024x768 CRT to the LCD immediately made all text much smaller, presumably because the resolution change was proportionately greater then the screen size change.

Incidentally, I have another serious problem with PSE5. It seems to show images in their ppi form rather than dpi. This results in a distorted view of images with 'mixed' resolution. I inmterested there is more info on the Adobe Photoshop Elements User to User forum in Technical Issues.