Opened Image and Program Border Creeps Off Screen

[Neal_J...@adobeforums.com]

I just installed CS4, but this same issue arose with CS3 just before I installed CS4. I am running XP on a 12-inch screen Dell M1210 laptop, but often edit onto a 22-inch Viewsonic screen. The issue occurs on both screens.

When I open an image from Bridge to Camera Raw, the ACR borders fit within the screen just fine. But when I open the ACR image into Photoshop, both the right-hand side of the program border and the bottom of the image go off the screen. I thus cannot see all of the image at the bottom and cannot see all the buttons/controls on the right-hand side of the program border.

It was not always like this. What am I not doing, or what did I do to get to this point? How do I fix it?

[Neal_J...@adobeforums.com]

Interestingly, now the image fits on the editing screen, but not on the laptop screen.

Anybody?

[Free...@adobeforums.com]

Do you have extended desktop or mirrored screens?

[Neal_J...@adobeforums.com]

Not sure what those mean, but I don't knowingly have them. The auxiliary screen replicates what is on the laptop screen (which goes to sleep when I plug in the big screen -- triggered by the FN F9 toggle.

[Neal_J...@adobeforums.com]

Actually it's Fn-F8. Sorry.

[Free...@adobeforums.com]

That sounds like a mirrored setup.

If the two screens have different native resolutions (and they probably do, one being a laptop) items will show in different sizes. Higher resolution = smaller size. There's no way around that, since LCDs must be run at native resolution.

You may have to readjust sizes going from one to the other.

On the other hand, maximized window will fill whatever screen it's on.

[Neal_J...@adobeforums.com]

How do I readjust the size? We're talking about the size of the program space on the screen, not just the image in PS. And how did this come about?

[Free...@adobeforums.com]

Say your Viewsonic is 1680 x 1050 pixels, just to pick some numbers, and the laptop screen is 1024 x 768.

So when the ACR window fits on the Viewsonic screen, it's 1680 by 1050 pixels. That isn't going to fit into the 1024 by 768 of your laptop. You'll have to make it smaller by dragging the corner inwards.