Christopher Lowell does Photoshop

I think I need this guy's help. He's obviously decorated someone's copy of Photoshop. And I want him to decorate mine. :p

Right now I'm taking the Lynda.com video tutorials for Photoshop 7 and their version of Photoshop has been decorated with nice blue carpet. See here:

http://spider-food.net/astuff/bluephotoshop.jpg

My version of Photoshop just has bare gray concrete. :mad:

Is there a setting for me to change this? Or does it have to do with my operating system. The tutorials are being done on a Mac. I'm working on a PC.

Select a color from the color picker, then grab the Paint Bucket tool and fill that "carpet" of yours while holding shift. Of course, this only works on open Photoshop documents. :]

That blue you see is just a plain-color Macintosh desktop image. With no document window open Mac users see around and beneath all of most applications' palettes and windows to the desktop underneath, unless they are fully maximised.

Thanks, !mo0chan!

I got the paint bucket trick down. Thought that one was very nice. Also liked changing the colors of my transparency defaults to light blue and several other settings.

I think, Utopian, you are hitting on that carpet I'd like to change. It's the entire photoshop desktop area that I'd like to change.

Have tried playing with some of my Windows Desktop settings but that didn't fix it. I'm running Win XP.

Of course, I can live with the gray if I have to. But I gotta admit - in the battle of the desktops, this sure is kinda one of those artsy reasons I'd like to have a G4.

Cheers!

NO, J.K....you're just mistaking what you're seeing.

That blue color is just a plain-color system desktop image—just like any wallpaper on any computer; it has nothing to do with Photoshop configuration or tweaking. Play with Photoshop on a Mac and you'll understand what I'm getting at.

Oh Man! I got it.. :D

Start >> Control Panel >> Display >> Appearance >> Advanced >> Application Desktop

(then pick your color)

Geez - I've been online since ya paid for AOL by the hour - lol.. And never have changed that.

Thanks!

Picking lurid colours or your favourite colours may seem a good idea, but I would go with a 50% grey, it helps when assesing colours and colour correcting.

Boring, but effective ;)

Hey Hermit,

Thanks! I did tone it way way down. Actually to a color very similar to the light blue/grey area on this forum. Also made my matte area outside my graphics white - which I really like.

Anyway - I think I've about exhausted all the QuickTime tutorials I can find/afford. Learned a whole lot about photography in the process. Now I'm looking forward to tackling some of the projects on this site.

Have my fingers crossed then. I must have watched 20 hours of QuickTime videos now on Photoshop. But I'm still a little lost as to how I'm going to create the kind of high end graphics I want to create for the web. I just feel like I know a whole lot about photography now.

Time now then I guess then to start mashin buttons. lol

I'm sure I'll be back.. ;)