[Upgrade, upgrade, upgrade!]
I recently changed the setting on my RecRoom monitor to 3840x2160 to see how it'd go. Great on an Opensimulator view, provided you were careful with your UI scaling, not so great on Firefox (I had to use the hack at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Pane_and_menu_fonts to make the UI readable), and Photoshop, because it's CS6 (and not CC) was an issue, as the full size screenshot shows below.
A quick search of Adobe forums found that people either misunderstood the questions advising to use Edit .> Preferences > Interface settings, which only seem to affect drop down menus. The other main response was It's 5 versions old and UPGRADE TO PHOTOSHOP CC! Now the second response might actually be the simplest, but I've never done that because it involves an ongoing commitment to paying Adobe a monthly fee. I bought the studend edition while I was doing my Masters. It was a one time payment which I could budget and save for, but the subscription model seems more like life insurance in how it works, and problematic for someone on a fixed income.
As per this article at https://www.crn.com.au/news/adobe-blames-us-exchange-rate-as-it-hikes-australian-prices-460815 from last year, living in Australia I'd have to pay an exchange rate making it far higher in $A. The last time I remember the $A being worth more than the $US was the 70s! The cheapest plan for me to use Ps CC is a photography plan (as I'm no longer an active student) at A$14.29/mo3. My CS6 pack cost me about $A350 and I got a whole collection of apps, not just two. At the subscription rate it's cost that in 2 years, just for Photoshop and Lightroom! Any monthly subscription computes with my utility costs, so this is why I haven't upgraded to anything CC, and probably won't.
#photoshop #UI #Adoboe #subscription
Of course the simplest workaround is to go back to using a 1920x1080 display resolution, and only swap to the higher resolution when I need it (very useful for building in-world in Opensim). I did find this Hack to sort out Ps, but it involves editing the Registry direct, and that's fraught all sorts of potential issue!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.danantonielli.com/adobe-app-scaling-on-high-dpi-displays-fix/
There's a similar hack here as well:
ReplyDeletehackymchackerson.blogspot.com - Adobe Photoshop CS6 - How to Increase the Font and Text Size of the User Interface Menu
Usually in discussions like this someone asks "Why not go over to GIMP?" It's a valid question, but I have a long long history of being frustrated and disappointed with GIMP. Others can do wonders with it I know, but about the only use I have for GIMP is the occasional use of plugins on an image, or opening a file in XCF.
ReplyDeleteBack in the days of my Masters, I committed to using Adobe Ps and Il because ALL the university terminals had those by default. I could work on graphic novel at home or at the un, so it was convenient. I don't really like Illustrator that much, but I find Photoshop is a great compositing engine, and works really well with making a machinomic from shots taken in-world in OpenSim.