16 months later.. The only solution is to set photoshop to "Open in Low Resolution"? Who wants to look at pixelated garbage while they are trying to be creative? I certainly don't and I don't think I am alone on this one..
Adobe made the scaling work nicely with Illustrator, but why not Photoshop?
Here is an example:
I have my 13.3" MBP with Retina set to the 2560 x 1600. By comparison with a NON-Retina display, it renders about the same viewable space as 1280 x 800.
I am viewing a test website In a browser that has an image on it that is 1200px wide. When viewing it on my macbook pro with retina in a browser, it almost reaches the edges of my monitor, as it does on another computer with a NON-Retina display. My Browser is set to 100% view. So far so good.
I then open photoshop and create a new document and set the width to 1200px wide. However, when photoshop makes the canvas, it is only half of the size it should be in reference to the web browser. This is what I believe is the issue people are talking about. What I find interesting is that if I open Adobe Illustrator and create a document with a width of 1200px, it takes up as much space on my monitor as the test site in the browser. What this tells me is that Adobe Illustrator is scaling, where Photoshop doesn't.
The answer about setting photoshop to "Open in Low Resolution" is a completely useless answer for anyone who is an artist with attention to detail. With software as expensive as this, one would think that it would be a priority (which I hope it is).
