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Oct 20, 2024 12:53 AM UTC
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Can no longer change Theme UI Color in After Affects?

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.

27 replies

Roman Varganov
Participant
Apr 16, 2026 9:11 PM UTC

I'm still on 2024 versions of PP, AE and AME. Spectrum UI is unusable for me, especially with blue accent color. Make it customizable for good sake, if not via console then make your native color picker in apps’ settings

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carolins.pe
Participant
Mar 31, 2026 3:40 PM UTC
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! 🔥
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Vadym B.
Inspiring
Feb 28, 2026 11:21 AM UTC

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

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JohnColombo17100380
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Feb 6, 2026 12:59 AM UTC
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JohnColombo17100380
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Feb 6, 2026 12:58 AM UTC
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Ramzik
Participant
Feb 5, 2026 1:14 PM UTC

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

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Sterphy
Known Participant
Sep 13, 2025 6:05 PM UTC

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. 

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jefubbudu
Inspiring
Sep 6, 2025 8:33 AM UTC

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"

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Sterphy
Known Participant
Aug 29, 2025 10:15 AM UTC

they have to do something with their workday 

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Sterphy
Known Participant
Aug 29, 2025 10:14 AM UTC

"Spectrum places customer needs first"

LOL!

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