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Inspiring
April 11, 2011
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P: Customize Classic Interface

  • April 11, 2011
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This suggestion is not about buttons and controls per se. I have a bit of a problem with the way the LR interface looks so dark compared and somewhat cluttered to other programs (such as Photoshop and Premiere Pro). I think it may be the very dark borders between and around panels. I'm guessingthe idea is probably to isolate the pictures, but for me it ends up providing too much ~contrast~ against the pictures.

I would be very happy if this became customizable or just les contrasty.

38 replies

Known Participant
July 27, 2021

It is very difficult to see the contrast between active and non-active items in Lightroom panes, a good example is the filter selection, active filter (flagged - unflagged- rejected) texct is almost impossible to see. So are many others, keyword suggestions etc, actually almost every text in all panes. 

Why is there no possibility to selct, eg wihte text and black background - as now everything is grey, more grey and less grey.

At least I did not find any....

Inspiring
January 24, 2017


Il est très difficile de distinguer, les marque signalant les collections synchronisées vers LRMmobile, idem, dans le module carte, les champs de localisation complétés automatiquement sur la base des coordonnées GPS etc... ne sont manifestement pas lisible, j'ai essayé de moifier les contraste et luminosité de mon écran (IMac 27' non Retina) ne permettent pas de compenser ce contraste.

It is very difficult to distinguish, mark indicating the collections synced to LRMmobile, Ditto, in the module card, the location fields filled automatically based on the coordinates GPS etc.. .  are obviously not readable, I tried to moifier my (IMac 27' no Retina) display brightness and contrast
cannot compensate for this contrast. This problem has existed for many versions of LR!
Yves Crausaz, Suisse, retraité actif dans le monde de la photo et des arts graphiques.
Inspiring
January 8, 2017
You can simply clic on the small arrow situated just in the top center of the screen. This will hide the tool line
Inspiring
January 8, 2017
You can simply clic on the small arrow situated just in the top center of the screen. This will hide the tool line
spacekitt3n
Participant
January 8, 2017


I do not see why there is no option to change the interface colors in lightroom from grey, to perhaps another scheme--a brighter or darker one, or even be able to completely customize the colors to your liking. I don't see why Adobe wants to keep you stuck with their dark grey color scheme. My particular reason is strange -- for some reason my monitor will darken if there are mostly dark elements on the screen, but brighten to the proper amount if there are brighter elements. I have pulled my hair out to see why this happens (no, it is not adaptive brightness). In Photoshop this isn't a problem because I actually can brighten the interface there. Please change this, it can't be that hard.
Inspiring
December 13, 2016


I can not work in Lightroom because of the black toolbar. It's really annoying, not possible to concentrate on the photos.  Is it a try  to be like Apple, when you don't give a chance to customize toolbar's colors? Don't try to ba Apple. People like you because you are Adobe. And Adobe has a lot, a lot of things to tick and untick.
Victoria Bampton LR Queen
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Community Expert
October 5, 2016
How will you be printing Anders? I applied a custom curve to the screenshots when I was laser printing in B&W, and got a much better result, without Adobe needing to do anything.
Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
Victoria Bampton LR Queen
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 5, 2016
How will you be printing Anders? I applied a custom curve to the screenshots when I was laser printing in B&W, and got a much better result, without Adobe needing to do anything.
Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
Inspiring
October 5, 2016


Background colour in panels lr cc .
It's possible to change background colour on the workspace.
This is not possible on the panels (answer from Adobe support)

As I'm writing an instruction and taking screen dumps, they become so dark when I print it in black & white.

My idea is that you make it possible to change background color for the left-, right-, top- and bottom panels to.
The same way as for the workspace.
Participant
June 29, 2016



Me too! This is a real problem, especially for those of us with over 40 eyes. I cannot work in an environment that has white text on a black background. It really causes eye strain. This seems like such a simple fix to implement and would address a major accessibility issue.