Is it possible to change the CS4 background color?

[d_c...@adobeforums.com]

I am doing a job which requires lots of screengrabs of images and settings against the usual dark gray CS4 background. The problem is that the guidelines you adjust to form a rectangle round the image you're grabbing are dark grayish too and it's difficult to see it against the gray background. Is there any way to temporarily change the dark gray CS4 window background color? I'm running under Vista and changing the window and application background colors in Vista makes no difference to the background color in CS4 which sticks at dark gray.

Thanks.

David

[ste...@adobeforums.com]

Shift click with the paint bucket - uses current foreground colour.

[Geoff_K...@adobeforums.com]

Preferences, Interface, Standard Screen Mode, is what you want.
Geoff.

[d_c...@adobeforums.com]

Thanks.

stevent - which paint bucket? Where?

geoff - changing the color setting for the Standard Screen Mode makes no difference. It remains at Dark Gray even after I close down CS4 and restart it.

Grateful for some more directions - thanks.

David

[Geoff_K...@adobeforums.com]

Try changing the "Full screen with menus" as well.

[Geoff_K...@adobeforums.com]

I assume that you are using a screen grab software, why not just use Photoshop? What I do if I want to grab an image and dialogue box is press PrtScn (printsceen) key on the keyboard, then in Photoshop, File, New, Preset = clipboard, Edit paste, flatten image, use crop tool as required, save for web. Only takes a few seconds and you don't need to worry about the background colour.
Geoff.

[Rob_K...@adobeforums.com]

Right click on the background you want to change, and select from a menu.

Rob

[d_c...@adobeforums.com]

Thanks.

Geoff - Changing the color in Full Screen with Menus has no effect. The dark gray is still there after a close CS4 and open.

Thanks for the alternative approach. The Faststone screengrab process is quicker. It's just a nuisance you can't change the color or thickness of the grabbing lines.

Rob - which background? When I right click on the CS4 background - the working area with nothing in it - I get no context menu. I get nothing in fact.

I am surprised that the Prefernces/Interface changes don't work but they don't seem to.

I have done abou 160 screen grabs and probably have another 3-400 to do.

David

[Ge...@adobeforums.com]

Rob - which background? When I right click on the CS4 background - the
working area with nothing in it - I get no context menu. I get nothing
in fact.

I just tried it myself. Rob means the background in the document window when you open a file. Right click,select Custom and you can pick the color you want. Each screen mode can be separately customized that way.

[d_c...@adobeforums.com]

Thanks for clarifying that. Unfortunately it's not the image specific background that is the issue for me - that is a light enough background that my screengrab lines stand out against it. My problem is with screengrabs of settings which are against the workspace dark gray background. I can always create a new image and put the screengrab against the white background of the new blank white image and that would work, but it is another step in the workflow and I had hoped to avoid it.

David

[Geoff_K...@adobeforums.com]

David you have me puzzled, your set-up seems different to other peoples set-up. I've noticed you say your problem is in CS4 but you have not mentioned Photoshop. Are you working in Photoshop or another program in the CS suite? The default work space background in Photoshop is mid grey, not dark grey as you describe.
Geoff.

[d_c...@adobeforums.com]

Geoff - yes - it's CS4, Photoshop which I'm running (with no problems) under Vista Ultimate. The gray background (for the workspace) I'm talking about has the RGB values: 127, 127, 127. The lighter standard gray surrounding an image is 191, 191, 191.

David

[Phosąfour dots]

Erm...that's R192/G192/B192

Yeah, I know. Big difference!

:)

[d_c...@adobeforums.com]

Not on my display. The values of the lighter gray are 191,191,191.

Are you able to change the background gray (the darker one)?

[Phosąfour dots]

R192/G192/B192 has been "the" de facto standard (on a properly calibrated monitor) for the apron-area gray for as long as I can remember (back over more than 10 years). I know the difference is negligible, but nonetheless, 192 has been the agreed upon setting.

I'm still using PS CS2, and I'm on a Mac. What you're talking about it irrelevant to me.

:)

[d_c...@adobeforums.com]

Hmm...I didn't know that. My display must be a little off. Another problem.

[Ge...@adobeforums.com]

128 is the default (Windows)grey background when you don't have any documents open. You can't change it.