Customize the Color of Your Photoshop CS3 Artboard
If you are one of those lucky enough to be running Photoshop CS3, I want to show you a neat trick. In CS3 you can very easily change the color of the excess artboard! I just happened to figure this out a night or two ago, so I wanted to post about it right away.
First of all, CS3 has 4 workspace views now, instead of 3. To change workspace views, the keyboard shortcut is “F.” Just the letter, nothing more. Hit F and you will cycle through the 4 views. (Tip: Hit “Tab” to toggle the visibility of your palettes for easier viewing).
Customize Your Artboard
All you need to do is Command/Control + Click (or Right Click) on the area outside of your document to get the customizing options. Here’s a screenshot of that:
Now, from the popup menu, click on “Select Custom Color.” Now you get the Adobe color selector to set your artboard background to any color your heart desires. This comes in especially handy for bloggers like myself who need to take a lot of screenshots on a specific background color to match the blog theme, and it is always beneficial to have another option, even if you don’t take a lot of screenshots.
Note: since there are 4 different workspace views in CS3, you can change/set a different color for each view! If you want them all to be white, you must set each view to white individually. However, this is a good thing because not every user will want the same color for every view. Thanks Adobe for the added options/customization.
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not exactly a new feature dude… since Photoshop 3 (I think) you could use the paint bucket and hold shift and make the pasteboard any color you want.. love the sit btw
artboard rather — not pasteboard
yes, perhaps if it was changed to simple ‘photoshop’ or ‘photoshop cs’ at least.
it’s a bit misleading that it’s a cs3 only feature.
but otherwise a good feature that isnt too widely known.
Oldy but goldy, as they say! I’m sure lots of new users didn’t know this one. But it sure is a bit misleading to say that this is a CS3-only feature!
Maybe I just didn’t know it back then, but as far as I remember pre-CS3 Photoshop releases only allowed you to customize the black color (the one in fullscreen view) by shift-clicking with the paint bucket. I don’t think it worked with the light gray area that is around the image in normal or full screen with menu mode. But as I said, I may be mistaken here.
true… just tried it on CS2 and it works just fine.
Hey, I didn’t know that.. nice tip, Bitt!
I never said it was a new feature. I just wanted to highlight the fact that it’s as easy as a right click in CS3.
~Bitt
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hehe bitt ^^
i discover that too when i was clicking like a fool on CS3 when my colleague gave me it ^^
but i’m still working on gray ^^ habits stay for long
Hey, I am woking on photoshop from many years but didn?t know that.. nice tip,
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THanks for the tip
Im using CS2 and the paintbucket tip was just what i was looking for
thanks again
Thank you so much, I’ve been banging my head trying to figure this out as I had no clue how it changed to begin with. I just couldn’t handle the blackness behind my pictures when working with dark layouts.
I, too, am using CS2 and the paintbucket tip was what I was looking for too. Is there any way to change the whole Photoshop window? I got the latest photoshop elements and the whole window - toolbars, etc…is dark grey, which is a lot easier on the eyes.
Why is it that my pasteboard does not have a feature to change colors??
Why ??
Is there any way u can do that in Flash !!!!!