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embee
Jun 1, 2005
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I just booted up PS CS, started working on a picture and needed to go to full screen mode. WTF! The background colour (ie. the non-image area of the screen) has gone black, instead of the nice neutral grey I’ve grown to love. And frankly, I HATE it, it’s hard om the eyes and makes editing difficult. I must admit that in 5 years of using PS I have never had the need to change the background colour and I can’t seem to find out how to do it. Anybody got any idea of why this has happened and how to fix it (ideally without dumping my Preferences)?

Cheers.
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Mike Russell
Jun 1, 2005
Mike wrote:
I just booted up PS CS, started working on a picture and needed to go to full screen mode. WTF! The background colour (ie. the non-image area of the screen) has gone black, instead of the nice neutral grey I’ve grown to love. And frankly, I HATE it, it’s hard om the eyes and makes editing difficult. I must admit that in 5 years of using PS I have never had the need to change the background colour and I can’t seem to find out how to do it. Anybody got any idea of why this has happened and how to fix it (ideally without dumping my Preferences)?

Set RGB(128,128,128) as the foreground color, and shift click the paint bucket tool on the background.
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Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
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KatWoman
Jun 1, 2005
did you click the 3 little boxes on the bottom of the tools palette? not the image ready or mask ones, the ones between

"Mike" wrote in message
I just booted up PS CS, started working on a picture and needed to go to full screen mode. WTF! The background colour (ie. the non-image area of the
screen) has gone black, instead of the nice neutral grey I’ve grown to love.
And frankly, I HATE it, it’s hard om the eyes and makes editing difficult. I
must admit that in 5 years of using PS I have never had the need to change the background colour and I can’t seem to find out how to do it. Anybody got
any idea of why this has happened and how to fix it (ideally without dumping
my Preferences)?

Cheers.

BH
Bill Hilton
Jun 1, 2005
Mike writes …

I just booted up PS CS, started working on a picture and needed to go to full screen mode. WTF! The background colour (ie. the non-image area of the screen) has gone black, instead of the nice neutral grey I’ve grown to love. And frankly, I HATE it … Anybody got any idea of why this has happened and how to fix it

Type ‘f’ once to get the gray background, type ‘f’ again to get black, type ‘f’ a third time to return to previous view.

If you don’t like the keyboard short cuts then I found this in the CS Help files under ‘full screen mode’ …

(quote)
To change the screen display mode:
To display a full-screen window with a menu bar and a 50% gray background, but no title bar or scroll bars, choose View > Screen Mode
Full Screen with Menu Bar view, or click the Full Screen with Menu Bar button in the toolbox.

To display a full-screen window with only a black background (no title bar, menu bar, or scroll bars), choose View > Screen Mode > Full Screen, or click the Full Screen button in the toolbox. (/quote)

The keyboard shortcut is a lot easier though 🙂

Let us know if one of these solutions solves the problem. If not then something else is going on.

Bill
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embee
Jun 2, 2005
"Mike Russell" wrote in message
Mike wrote:
I just booted up PS CS, started working on a picture and needed to go to full screen mode. WTF! The background colour (ie. the non-image area of the screen) has gone black, instead of the nice neutral grey I’ve grown to love. And frankly, I HATE it, it’s hard om the eyes and makes editing difficult. I must admit that in 5 years of using PS I have never had the need to change the background colour and I can’t seem to find out how to do it. Anybody got any idea of why this has happened and how to fix it (ideally without dumping my Preferences)?

Set RGB(128,128,128) as the foreground color, and shift click the paint bucket tool on the background.
—
Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com

Thanks Mike – looks like that’s a little procedure that’s passed me by over the years! It probably also explains how this happened in the first place – looks like I inadvertantly SHIFT-Clicked with the paint bucket while loaded with black at some stage. Doh!

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