Pixel problem with new laptop

I have just bought new laptop with a screen resolution of 1920x1080 px. However as the screen is only 13 inches, the text is too small to read. In order to get around this I have had to increase the size option in Display to 150%.

However because photoshop still deals with a pixel as a pixel, I can't take any screenshots from websites and overlay things as the pixels of the screenshots are bigger and so the relative sizes are each thing are different.

Any advice on this?

 

Change the resolution in display? (assuming you are using Windows)

 

I can do that yeah, but it kind of defeats the point of having a high res screen

 

13 inch screen is not something I will recommend to a graphic designer. Your best option is trying an external monitor.

 

I use it to travel. If I really have to I will reduce the resolution. I just want to know if there were any other ideas.

 

Sorry, out of ideas. Would have been helpful for you if chose a laptop with bigger screen. I guess what you use is a Windows tablet/laptop convertible.

 

Zoom in on the webpage? "Ctrl" and "+" or hold Ctrl and Scroll. Zooming out is "Ctrl" and "-". As others have said, easiest is to scale down resolution to a good value. You can use a resolution while editing to make things easier and for example when watching a movie change to 1920x1080 to get a crisp screen

 

What exactly are you dicking around in photoshop actually doing to screencaps? Not certain I follow why you're having a 'problem'.

Of course, you could always just set one browser to ignore the native font size -- Chrome is usually a good choice for that since half the time it ignores the OS setting unless it was set before chrome was installed.

 

Yeah, I think I'm going to go with that option. It seems to be the best way. thanks.

I paste things into photoshop and as the resolutions are different, it doesn't work properly if I add stuff on top.

Yeah, I hadn't thought about setting one browser up differently.

 

I think that's the part I'm failing to grasp the point of... Just what are you 'adding on top' and to what end?

 

Screenshot of a site and adding a graphic to see if it works/fits before I add it to the html.

 

... and the content auto-fits around that how exactly? Seems like a wasted step to me; but I don't dick around in photoshop and call it "design"; I add content to the markup then have the markup and content dictate the layout.

Of course, that's assuming the images are content.

Much less if you have a semi-fluid elastic responsive layout like you're supposed to, what good is the screencap since there is no fixed size.

Or are you working with an inaccessible crappy little stripe fixed width layout? You know that sleazy shortcut we've been told since HTML was invented not to do?