Well, technically the pictures aren’t smaller – they are just being displayed smaller because the monitor is showing more pixels in the same amount of space.
Actually, you’ll probably like the larger resolution, even though the images are smaller onscreen. A higher resolution gives you more room for things like Palettes and toolbars.
You can always zoom in on the picture in photoshop to make it larger.
As for the operating system’s desktop fonts you can enlarge them via this setting in the Control Panel section (or right click and Properties) Display>Settings>Advanced>General>Font Size
thanks all it gives me an education and also food for thought.i thought it would give me the same picture size with better detail.
Quinton,
If your screen is really too small for your liking, you can always try a different resolution. You can do this through your video card’s driver and you don’t have to accept the default. Hopefully, you have a decent video card that will let you take advantage of your new monitor (ATI, nVidea, Matrox).
However, as Jonathan and hot_denim have indicated, there are definite advanatages (more screen real estate, options to enlarge fonts, etc.) to using the higher resolution in Photoshop. Try different settings until you find the one that works best for you. Personally, even though my monitor can display at a much higher resolution, I keep mine at 1024×768 which is a kind of compromise that works for me. Many people around here — I think — use the 1280 x 1024 setting for the reasons Jonathan mentioned.
Jake
Hold done the Ctrl Key and hit 0 (zero) or go to View- Fit on Screen.
Stay with your Resolution.
i thought it would give me the same picture size with better detail.
Only on TV and at the movies.
Don
Want to see good detail?
Alt+Ctrl+0 (zero) or View-Actual Pixels.
Remember that the minimum resolution to run Photoshop is 1024×768…
Remember that the minimum resolution to run Photoshop is 1024×768…
What does that mean?
