CS4–changing workspace/menu/tools from grey to color?

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Gregg_Harris
Jan 2, 2009
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Ok, CS4, to my eyes is very grey and flat. I know how to change the background color, but is there anyway to add more color to the interface in general…tools, menu or palette color??? Yes I do know that we can highlight individual menu items on drop down.

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John Joslin
Jan 2, 2009
is there anyway to add more color to the interface in general.

Nope.

What’s wrong with "grey and flat" if you are dealing with image editing?
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Bob Levine
Jan 2, 2009
No, but the real question is why would you want to? Gray is the perfect color. Anything else would be horribly distracting.

Bob
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Curvemeister
Jan 3, 2009
As the others have said, this is by design. Color in the interface will cause your eyes to adapt. For example, a systematically blue interface will make grays appear slightly yellow.

The same effect happens within an image, BTW, so an overall green image will give objects in the image an apparent magenta cast.

All that said, if you really prefer more color in your life, there are ways to do and end run and change Photoshop’s interface colors. Perhaps someone will respond who has done this before.
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Phosphor
Jan 3, 2009
I tried playing with interface changes back in the Mac OS 9 days, just because I could, and it was fun experimenting. But I really did discover that it screwed with my ability to accurately work with color.

In OS X, it’s all graphite UI, with a gray desktop image. My eyes are much happier for it.
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Bob Levine
Jan 3, 2009
Are you using the CS4 application from in OSX?

Bob
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Phosphor
Jan 3, 2009
I’m not sure what you’re asking, Bob ("from in"?). I’m sticking with PS CS2 until I can afford a hardware upgrade.

But I’ve played with PS CS4, and I’ve looked at enough CS4 screenshots.

What are you asking about?
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Bob Levine
Jan 3, 2009
CS4 applications on the Mac have an application frame option which makes them "Windows-like." You can’t see through to the desktop.

For me, it’s a huge improvement.

Bob
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Phosphor
Jan 3, 2009
I’ve always worked full-screen switching modes with the ‘F’ key anyway—except for doing small, quick stuff. Mac OS X’s Exposé features of using hot corners to get windows out of the way still allow for drag and drop between open apps. So the AppFrame mode is kind of redundant to me. I s’pose it’s OK to have as an option; I’d have to work awhile with it to see if I’d like it.

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