Can anybody tell me what determines the background colour when viewing in Full-screen Preview? I'd like to set it to black.
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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I think the easiest way to demonstrate this is for you to use Full-Screen Preview (as highlighted, two places - same tool.This is from the default workspace) and show me what you see.
Just bring in a smallish image and hit the button. Take a screen grab and post it here.
For Flickr, all you have to do was click on the link to see how images are displayed there. You'll then understand why I'm asking the question.
Changing the Application Background Colour in Windows 7 doesn't work for me. I tried it. Maybe it's because I use the Aero theme and that overides it. Windows, huh!.
I see you have a customised workspace. Revert to X6 Default Workspace to use the Full Screen Preview. You'll find it under Tools > Workspace.
You can revert to your customised workspace at any time providing you've saved/exported them. Warning - If you only have the one box (X6 Default Workspace), then you don't have a copy of your existing customisations. It's highly recommended you Export them or you're likely to lose them in a crash (it happened to me, never again)!
The background I'm talking about is the one you defined as - "The blank area around the image within the image window shown as white" - except it's not actually white, it's a very pale blue/grey, as I said earlier. Now that we know the background/field/space I'm referring to, the question is - how do you change that to black (or any other colour)?