AA5 screen background colours - question

[fwm891]

Does anyone out there using AA5-SP1 know of a way to change the light grey background colour to a dark grey or even black ?

I've looked through the manual but can find no reference to the screen backgound colouration.

[Jessun]

Could a custom Windows theme do the job? Just a wild guess.

/Jesper

[fwm891]

Thanks Jesper, Didn't think it was going to be that simple....

Forced me to recalibrate the monitor as well, but from the look of things it needed a tweak!

Thanks

Thanks Jesper, Didn't think it was going to be that simple....

Forced me to recalibrate the monitor as well, but from the look of things it needed a tweak!

Selecting a dark charcoal grey for the working window makes neutralising the sky background so much easier

As I hope this M51 illustrates:

Thanks

[Jessun]

There may be some other way to do it in AA itself. I only produce the stack in AA so never looked for change of background, but it's a good trick not to clip the background I think, and your image certainly looks good! Great detail, and a bucket load of the faint extensions!

Impressive!

/Jesper

[fwm891]

Hi Jesper, I'm hoping so. I've emailed Fabio asking the same thing. If I could dedicate the PC to astro there wouldn't be the problem but its used for other things as well (like now). I have two display set-ups now, one for astro, one for general computing. But it would be better if when opening AA5 it set itself up with saved defaults.

[Jessun]

They have the 'night visualisation' theme incorporated already, so a few lines of code should make it possible to change the background, to a user set value, for editing as well. I do the same in PhotoShop so I don't accidently plummet too deep in the dark. I see exactly what you mean.

Let us know what Fabio says about the idea!

/Jesper

[fwm891]

The night visualisation is good (at night) my problem is when I'm post capture processing during the day and find it better to have a dark neutral background to help with assessments.

Something like this web forum with its selection of grey's would be ideal