full-screen preview background colour

Hi Shelley,

Full-screen Preview is an enlargement of the active window.  The so called true "background" is not shown. The "background" within the active Window can not be changed so far as I know.

Just in case you don't know how to do it, you can get any color you

want for the genuine Application Background in Windows 7.

Control Panel > Appearance and Personalization

Click on the icon on the center bottom of the screen called "Windows Color"

Scroll down on the item list till you get to Application Background.

Pick a color.

Here's black for the official background color.  The space surrounding the image within the active window is not the application background




Only the active window shows up in Full Screen Preview.

Phil

Hi Shelly,

I just thought of a way to get the area surrounding the image to be black.

1. Duplicate the image to a layer.
2.  Enlarge the paper size so that it will always be greater than the active window.
3.  Fill with black.

Here's what it looks like initially.  When you use Full Screen Preview, the "background" will be black.



Personally, I don't like the effect.  The colors look much more saturated to the creator than to anyone else who will view it on a normal background.
phil

Top image - from Paint window

Lower image - full-screen preview window

The colour I'm referring to is the vast expanse of grey outside the block of colours in the lower image. I will call that the "Application Background colour when in full-screen Mode". What colour do you see when you go into full-screen mode? I note that it's exactly the same colour as Windows Menu, but this is probably coincidental as it doesn't change when I change the colour for Windows Menu.

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