Doug Kerr
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Asher has pointed out that several important modern photo editors provide (presumably by default) a dark surround around the image when it is being edited. He also said (and I paraphrase) that this was known to be "easier on the eyes".
To add to our "database" of information on this, I today downloaded and installed (on a trial basis, but I may well buy it) ON1 Photo RAW 2019.2.
There is seemingly only one "skin" for the program, and its background color in general is (R-G-B, hex) 1E-1E-1E (0.013 relative luminance). If the image does not fill the image window, the remaining space (I will call that the "padding") is (by default) 14-14-14 (0.013 relative luminance). This latter is called in the program menus the "image background color", which I think is misleading
The user can change the color of the padding to any of several preset colors or to a "custom" color.
But because ordinarily the padding is very small (completely absent if we set a large zoom ratio), that ability is not worth much.
We see the entire app window with the "default" view of a 3:2 camera file and the default padding color here (reduced in size to suit the presentation context):
Best regards,
Doug
To add to our "database" of information on this, I today downloaded and installed (on a trial basis, but I may well buy it) ON1 Photo RAW 2019.2.
There is seemingly only one "skin" for the program, and its background color in general is (R-G-B, hex) 1E-1E-1E (0.013 relative luminance). If the image does not fill the image window, the remaining space (I will call that the "padding") is (by default) 14-14-14 (0.013 relative luminance). This latter is called in the program menus the "image background color", which I think is misleading
The user can change the color of the padding to any of several preset colors or to a "custom" color.
But because ordinarily the padding is very small (completely absent if we set a large zoom ratio), that ability is not worth much.
We see the entire app window with the "default" view of a 3:2 camera file and the default padding color here (reduced in size to suit the presentation context):
Best regards,
Doug
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