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?
No, but the real question is why would you want to? Gray is the perfect color. Anything else would be horribly distracting.
Bob
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.
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.
Are you using the CS4 application from in OSX?
Bob
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?
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
I’ve always worked full-screen switching modes with the ‘F’ key anywayexcept 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.