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
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)?
So far as I can tell, there is no way in Photopaint X6 with Windows 7, to change the color of that background. Neither can I find any way to change it from Windows' Color and Appearance.
The only work around that I could think of was to:
1. Duplicate the image to a new layer
2. Enlarge the paper size so that it is always larger than the image window
3. Fill the background with black or any other color.
If you don't mind working without an interface, tiny text on the top level menu, and no interactive gradient tool, then you can use Adobe Photoshop. It has an option for that background.
Phil
The dark background for CorelDRAW X7 is under Tools / Options / workspace / customization, requires a Premium membership
Shelly at one time the graphics industry was only concerned with quality and during that period they commissioned millions of dollars of studies. Out of those studies came recommended work environment colors, neutral grays, 5,000 kelvin or 6,500 kelvin lighting with no exterior lighting to mention a few.
The soft gray interface for graphics applications is some of what came out of that. During that period I dedicated myself to creating a working environment that matched those specifications and after doing so I tested my results of color correction in and out of that environment. To my amazement the studies were correct and I don't mean a little bit correct. I found that I could no longer be satisfied with my work if I didn't work in this controlled environment.
That was during CorelDraw 11 and I still follow those procedures. Today what we see is designers wanting a stylish more modern work environment (their words not mine) and what we have is a quality of work that is awful (in general), over sharpened, improper gray balance (hue shifts), contrast out of balance and in general a lessor level of quality than existed 10 years ago.
In my office I light to 5,000 kelvin, (you can receive light therapy in my office). My windows are thickly draped, I have shaded displays I calibrate my displays regularly and follow all proper color management practices.
With that said Corel can make the interface customizable but in my opinion the default needs to be dedicated to quality.
shelley said:Ariel - looks like I need to upgrade to Premium. Unfortunately, that's not going to happen, especially not for $99! Wow, and that's a yearly subscription too. I'm a hobbyist not a corporation. Seems cheap of Corel not to provide this basic feature on standard installs. Oh well. I'll just carry on as normal.
I don't try to sell programs, specially if you don't need it. just mention where is the internal option. That was not available on X6 and was added as special feature for X7. The advantadge of the subscription is to upgrade automatically to CorelDRAW X8 (and X9, etc) when the program was available, Meanwhile, you can use the Phil advice. Also, you can use Corel PaintShop Pro, and affordable and complete program for image editing, that also uses a dark interface
http://www.paintshoppro.com/en/products/paintshop-pro/?hptrack=us2bb4&_ga=1.233439390.1485613407.1434591473
http://www.paintshoppro.com/images/products/paintshop-pro/x8/screens/faster-photo-processing.jpg
Seasons greetings [<:o)] !
David - I personally don't like the black working background as is becomes a strain on the eye after a while. I use CAD and create my own working backgrounds which are pretty similar to Paint (more green/grey). The point was that I post pictures to Flickr which use a black (or almost black) background and I simply wanted a dirty way of seeing how they would look in that environment. As Flickr just revamped their entire site, it's a shame they didn't think is suitable to let people choose their own background colour, something which would have been quite easy to do.
Ariel - I see the point of subscriptions in order to keep up to date but as I only upgrade every fourth issue it doesn't make financial sense. PaintShop Pro is certainly cheaper and appears (?) to have more bells and whistles than Paint.Guess I'll have to download the trial version and see. Too late to ask Santa for it! But as I explained to David, I don't really want to work in a black environment, it was only to get a quick view before pictures were uploaded to Flickr.