Expert: LizaL - 3/29/2007

Question
Yesterday, while working in the screen mode "Full Screen Mode with Menu Bar," I managed to change the area outside the image from its usual grey to a maroon red, which was the color I was using at the time. The area I'm talking about is the area outside of the active workspace where you cannot do anything to it.  This maroon color is now there for all images that I work with.

I want to know how to change that color so I can get it back to the way it was. It's very disrupting because it doesn't match the picture. I saw someone ask a similar question with no luck, but I really need to get this back to normal! Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Answer
Hi Bryce,

You can actually make that workspace area any color you want by first selecting the color you want it to be (click on the Foreground color swatch, then choose a color). Then from the tool palette select the Paint Bucket tool (on a Mac it's 6th from the top, on the right), which shares the same space as the gradient tool. Make sure your window's large enough for you to see the workspace. Then hold down the Shift key while clicking the paint bucket in the workspace. This will change the color of the workspace to the color you chose as your foreground color.

So all you really have to do is determine what shade of gray your original workspace was, make that your Foreground color, then go through the Shift+Click+paint bucket steps.

Hope this helps!

Lisa