2 Replies Latest reply: Dec 27, 2012 12:51 PM by whatalotofrubbish RSS

    How do you set up a custom color for the standard screen mode

    whatalotofrubbish Community Member
    whatalotofrubbish Dec 19, 2012 3:43 PM

      This new colour scheme has not enough contrast for it to be readable, so I was pleased to find custom screen mode. However, there seems to be no way of setting up a custom color for this. In addition, the icons are so small they are unreadable. Is there any way of making them bigger. I have a 20" and a 22" monitor working together, but they are still not clear enough to use.

        • 1. Re: How do you set up a custom color for the standard screen mode
          Kendall Plant Employee Hosts
          Kendall Plant Dec 23, 2012 10:48 PM (in response to whatalotofrubbish)

          Hi there

           

          Are you referring to the tool icons in Photoshop CS6? There are a few options you can change to help make the interface more readable, but unfortunately, there is not an option to enlarge the tool icons.

           

          It sounds like you may have discovered this already, but if you go to Photoshop > Preferences > Interface, you can change the color of the Photoshop CS6 interface.

           

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          You can also enlarge the UI text size in this same window, in the Text preferences box.

           

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          You can also make the size of your layers thumbnails larger. You can do this by clicking on the small menu in the upper right hand corner of the Layers Panel and selecting Panel Options.

           

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          Here you can change the size of the layers thumbnails.

           

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          I hope this helps you out a bit!

          • 2. Re: How do you set up a custom color for the standard screen mode
            whatalotofrubbish Community Member
            whatalotofrubbish Dec 27, 2012 12:51 PM (in response to Kendall Plant)

            Thanks Kendalplant,

                I had missed the text size in the Interface box, not having connected the UI text label with the text due to it defaulting to medium text size. I switched it to large. I also changed the colours in standard and full screen to Gray with a line border, and Full screen to black. This makes the screen more legible, but still not satisfactory for such a high priced item. I also changed the thumbnails in the layers panel to large, and this helps greatly.

            Adobe still seems to think that everyone works using a 1280 wide by 800

            screen. Mine is 1920 by 1080. If I change it to Adobe's recommended resolution, then all I get is a blurred mess. Due to the inbuilt features of a digital display, if you change to a resolution that is not the natural one for your display, it usually does not work well. Come back the CRT, when resolution was always sharp and precise.

            The settings that I have chosen seem to be identical with Fireworks, which does not have the possibility to change anything in the interface.

            Why anyone would want the dark defaults interface that comes with Photoshop I can not imagine.

             

            Thanks for your assistance

            Howard