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
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
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.