Help! Photoshop background colors

[photographer unknown]

Help! I can't seem to remember how to set up Photoshop so that they background and title bars etc are neutral grey. Right now they are blue, attractive maybe but terrible for editing work. I'm sure that lack of sleep and the joys of setting up a new computer on vista are not helping the matter. please someone take pity on me and help me out here.

TIA
Mel

[MisterJP]

Try making your foreground color the gray you want, then with the paint bucket tool, shift-click on the background. It should fill it with the new gray. This is on a Mac, however!

[photographer unknown]

Hmmm! I am thinking that I didn't explain that very well. I bought a new computer over the weekend and I am working my way through the setup. Anyhow on my old machine eons ago I somehow set the colors of the menu bars, title bars and the backgound (photoshop desktop or whatever the tecky name is) to a neutral grey which makes color editing work much easier. Problem is I can't remember how to do it. Try as I might I can't find the controls for it. The blue color is making me nuts!

Mel

[rammy]

Right click on desktop and go to properties. On the Display Properties dialog, click on the Appearance tab. You can now change the color scheme and individual parts by clicking on the Advanced button.

[photographer unknown]

I have tried that in every configuration I can think of. I can make the background grey but say you have a photo open if you drag the border to make it larger than the photo, that part with be grey but the border that actually defines the window is blue and the tool pallette is blue, the title areas on the other panels are blue and so are there defining borders. I can not seem to find a setting that will actually change those to grey in vista. On my XP machine everything is set to shades of grey.

Mel

[chrishunt]

Taken from a google search, I haven't tested it:

Have you ever wanted to change the color of the gray background color used by Photoshop, the area that surrounds the photo that you are working on? You can. Here's how.

Open any photo in Photoshop and expand the window so that you can see the gray area. Click and open the color pallet, the foreground-background color box
on the lower left under the tools pallet. Select the color you want. Select the paint bucket from the tools pallet. Hold down the shift key, move the paint bucket to the gray area and click. This will give you a different look to your photo. It may even help with choosing a matte for your print. Now to get it back to gray, open the color pallet again, but this time, where it says R, G, B, enter the number 192 in each box to return to the Photoshop gray. Hold down the shift key and click the area again.

[rammy]

Originally Posted by photographer unknown

I can not seem to find a setting that will actually change those to grey in vista. On my XP machine everything is set to shades of grey.

Ah ha, and there is the vital bit of info

Go and personalise your settings in Control Panel and you should be able to fine tune your colours. You may have to pick Windows Classic to go back to the grey style. But why would you want to do that anyway, stick with Aero

Try googling to find some steps to do this as I am at home and have XP here.

[photographer unknown]

Originally Posted by photographer unknown

I'm sure that lack of sleep and the joys of setting up a new computer on vista are not helping the matter.

Honestly, thanks though. I really do appreciate the efforts being made. It seems like such a simple thing to fix but dang if I can find the solution.

I have personalized the colors, clicked on the advanced tab and went throught the coloring of each option. I must be missing something but what. The title bar ( Where it says Photoshop) is grey and the background is grey but each window and pallette still have a blue border and the titles of each window inside of photoshop (i.e. layers, channels, histrogram etc.) are all still blue. I am able to change the pixel width of those borders by altering the border padding.

I have tried so many things now I am having trouble remembering what I have tried. But I think that I even tried using windows classic to no avail but I will try that again. But you are so right Aero is so much better for many other things. I want Aero and grey colors in Photoshop!!!!

Mel

[zacker]

another happy vista user..lol

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