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.