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Drew12 13
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October 20, 2024
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Can no longer change Theme UI Color in After Affects?

  • October 20, 2024
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Hi:

 

Up until the latest update (2025) for After Effects. I was able to change my Theme UI Color. This link shows a video of how you used to able to change the Theme UI Color: (Mod note: Link removed)

 

I contacted an Adobe Agent and he said several changes were included in this latest update of After Effects. He said to file a feature request here in hopes of getting that feature back again. The After Effects Version I am using is: 25.0.0 (Build 53) and I am running it on a PC with a Windows 11.  This may not seem like a big issue to some people but it's something I got used to as part of my workflow.  If you could bring this feature back it would greatly be appreciated!

 

Mod note: Please do not condone the use of internal engineering tools like Console. The link showing how to change engineering settings in the UI has been removed. The text was also modified. Thanks.

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    carolins.pe
    carolins.pe
    Participant
    March 31, 2026
    Bora, bora! Salve aqui do Brasil, galera aqui adora customizar sua cor, mano! Por favor, devolvam essa função. A melhor parte de ser criador, artista, usuário no geral, é poder ter a experiência da plataforma. Ficamos no aguardo pra essa função voltar, valeu!🔥Let's go, let's go! Greetings from Brazil, the folks here love customizing their colors, man! Please bring that feature back. The best part of being a creator, artist, or user in general, is being able to experience the platform. We're waiting for that feature to return, thanks! 🔥
      Vadym B.
      Vadym B.
      Inspiring
      February 28, 2026

      Add the ability to change the color. We should be able to choose the color of the interface ourselves, as it was before.

      JohnColombo17100380
      Community Manager
      JohnColombo17100380Community Manager
      Community Manager
      February 6, 2026
      The following idea has been merged into this idea:

      All the votes have been transferred into this idea.
      JohnColombo17100380
      Community Manager
      JohnColombo17100380Community Manager
      Community Manager
      February 6, 2026
      The following idea has been merged into this idea:

      All the votes have been transferred into this idea.
      Ramzik
      Ramzik
      Participant
      February 5, 2026

      It’s AE 2026 and they didnt get it back……..shameful office

      Sterphy
      Sterphy
      Known Participant
      September 13, 2025

      They need to drop their AI goals fast!  Not only are they way behind everybody else and have no hope of catching up, their consumer base are creatives who don't want it.  So ridiculous. 

        jefubbudu
        jefubbudu
        Inspiring
        September 6, 2025

        It's simple. The managers need to see progress. On what? Doesn't matter. Can the devs work more on this software? Not really, it's a house of cards and they can only make surface-level changes without setting off a rube goldberg machine of spaghetti code induced bugs. I just came from a thread where newer versions of GPU drivers make AE lag, even when not using them. 

         

        I feel for the devs, I really do, but adobe really needs to put them toward a new compositing software. Sadly, that won't happen. They're all in on AI, and that means whatever they make is going to decide "no actually you didn't want that space ship; you wanted this one that looks vaguely like if star trek was a 90's pop art airbrush painting. And rarely a tree branch because AI poison"

          Sterphy
          Sterphy
          Known Participant
          August 29, 2025

          they have to do something with their workday 

          Sterphy
          Sterphy
          Known Participant
          August 29, 2025

          "Spectrum places customer needs first"

          LOL!

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            Anonymous
            August 20, 2025

            100% agree. Why do they keep changing things for the worse?

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