How to change color outside the image's canvas area?

flyingdutchie

I did something in my settings of Photoshop CS2...

When you open an image and 'maximize' the image-window inside Photoshop, the area outside the canvas (not outside the image, but outside the canvas around the image) has a background color. It was white... now it is black (i hit some key i guess... ).

How do i change it to get back to white again?

jfriend

flyingdutchie wrote:

I did something in my settings of Photoshop CS2...

When you open an image and 'maximize' the image-window inside Photoshop, the area outside the canvas (not outside the image, but outside the canvas around the image) has a background color. It was white... now it is black (i hit some key i guess... ).

How do i change it to get back to white again?

Right click in that area and select the color you want.

flyingdutchie

jfriend wrote:

Right click in that area and select the color you want.

Thanks!
That does not work, however.
If i right click, it has usually no effect at all. Sometimes, depending on the tool that is selected, the 'Set foreground color'-tool changes color.

colourbox

If it went to black, you probably changed the Full Screen mode. There are two Full Screen modes: Gray with menu bar, and black with no menu bar. You toggle through them by pressing "F". That's probably what you did.

The clearer way to see what you have done is to look in:
View menu/Screen Mode submenu

jfriend

flyingdutchie wrote:

Thanks!
That does not work, however.
If i right click, it has usually no effect at all. Sometimes, depending on the tool that is selected, the 'Set foreground color'-tool changes color.

If I have an image window (maximized or not) and I size it a little larger than the canvas (or unzoom until there is extra area around the canvas) and then right-click in the area just outside the canvas, but still inside the sub-window that has the image in it, it pops up a menu that let's me set that image border color. It doesn't matter what tool is selected.

flyingdutchie

colourbox wrote:

If it went to black, you probably changed the Full Screen mode. There are two Full Screen modes: Gray with menu bar, and black with no menu bar. You toggle through them by pressing "F". That's probably what you did.

The clearer way to see what you have done is to look in:
View menu/Screen Mode submenu

Thanks...
But it does not work....
Pressing F (or using the Screen Mode submenu) toggles indeed between these screen-modes, but the maximized window containing the image still has a black background border.

Here is a screenshot.
-The image is in a larger canvas.
-The canvas background color is white.
-The work-area color (the one i'd like to change) is black.

It once was white. I pressed a key - i don't remember which one - and the work-area color turned black.

I don't know how to turn it back to white (or gray) again.

If i right-click in the black area, nothing happens.

Thanks!

jfriend

flyingdutchie wrote:

Thanks...
But it does not work....
Pressing F (or using the Screen Mode submenu) toggles indeed between these screen-modes, but the maximized window containing the image still has a black background border.

Here is a screenshot.
-The image is in a larger canvas.
-The canvas background color is white.
-The work-area color (the one i'd like to change) is black.

It once was white. I pressed a key - i don't remember which one - and the work-area color turned black.

I don't know how to turn it back to white (or gray) again.

If i right-click in the black area, nothing happens.

Thanks!

According to Photoshop help (I can't believe it was actually useful for once), hold the space key down and hit the F key multiple times to cycle the color that shows black in your image. If you want to read this yourself, open Photoshop help, search for "shortcut keys" and then select "Keys for viewing images".

nikos

jfriend wrote:

According to Photoshop help (I can't believe it was actually useful for once), hold the space key down and hit the F key multiple times to cycle the color that shows black in your image. If you want to read this yourself, open Photoshop help, search for "shortcut keys" and then select "Keys for viewing images".

Yep, and this cycles through the exact same colors as if you were to right-click the area and choose them -- as you have previously suggested.

If this works for him, then he's got a right-click problem

flyingdutchie

jfriend wrote:

According to Photoshop help (I can't believe it was actually useful for once), hold the space key down and hit the F key multiple times to cycle the color that shows black in your image. If you want to read this yourself, open Photoshop help, search for "shortcut keys" and then select "Keys for viewing images".

Thanks again jfriend for your time and help,
but it does not work.

Pressing the spacebar selects the 'hand tool' as long as you hold the spacebar down. Pressing the F key (simultaneously) just does the same as just pressing the F key (without the spacebar).

I did the search in the help-files... nothing is mentioned about the background color of the document-window.
(i have version CS2: 9.02)

jfriend

flyingdutchie wrote:

Thanks again jfriend for your time and help,
but it does not work.

Pressing the spacebar selects the 'hand tool' as long as you hold the spacebar down. Pressing the F key (simultaneously) just does the same as just pressing the F key (without the spacebar).

I did the search in the help-files... nothing is mentioned about the background color of the document-window.
(i have version CS2: 9.02)

OK, my bad. I'm using CS3. It's different in CS3.

jfriend

jfriend wrote:

OK, my bad. I'm using CS3. It's different in CS3.

OK, it's a challenge now. Try this. Select the paint bucket tool. Select the foreground color you want. Then do a shift click in the area we're talking about. In my copy of CS2, I can change that color to anything I want this way.

flyingdutchie

jfriend wrote:

OK, it's a challenge now. Try this. Select the paint bucket tool. Select the foreground color you want. Then do a shift click in the area we're talking about. In my copy of CS2, I can change that color to anything I want this way.

I appreciate your help!:D
I'm not at home right now. I tried the paint-bucket, but i don't think i did a shift click. I'm going to try that when i'm home.

Thanks!

flyingdutchie

jfriend wrote:

OK, it's a challenge now. Try this. Select the paint bucket tool. Select the foreground color you want. Then do a shift click in the area we're talking about. In my copy of CS2, I can change that color to anything I want this way.

Shift Click with the Paint Bucket tool did the trick!! Thank you very much!

jfriend

flyingdutchie wrote:

Shift Click with the Paint Bucket tool did the trick!! Thank you very much!

Cool!