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  • Change color of the pasteboard?

    Posted by Donavan on June 5, 2006 at 11:12 pm

    I’m working in AE7, before I could change the color of the pasteboard (I think that’s what they call the grey area around the active composited image). It was good to change it to black on occasion to be sure the edges didn’t have any glitches.
    Thanks.

    Aharon Rabinowitz replied 19 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Aharon Rabinowitz

    June 6, 2006 at 4:11 am

    you can change darken or klighten the entire UI (including pasteboard) by choosing Edit > Preferences > UI colors, and using the slider to make it darker or lighter.

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  • Donavan

    June 6, 2006 at 2:40 pm

    Thanks for the response. I’d like to on occasion just get the pasteboard to black like in previous versions, not the whole interface to dark grey. The dark grey still isn’t dark enough to see if there are any anomolies around the edge. It would be a shame if this feature really was removed in AE7.

  • Aharon Rabinowitz

    June 6, 2006 at 2:49 pm

    It appears that that feature is gone. Honestly I never used it, and I doubt most people did.

    But I do understand the need for it, and you may want to email adobe and ask to have it added back in in the next version.

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  • Danny Princz

    June 9, 2006 at 4:56 am

    this was the first thing i saw missing from AE7 as soon as i got it and installed it.

    its still in the help pages though but it has been removed

    i also truly miss this feature

    who is that masked man…

  • Aharon Rabinowitz

    June 9, 2006 at 4:00 pm

    I agree. Thinking about how I do a lot of tutorials that show the AE interface, it’s hard for me to see the edges when the greys are so close – this would be helpful, alas.

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    available @ http://www.pIllusionFusion.com

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