Photoshop elements. Full screen mode text (note) not visible

[maartendf]

Hi,

I have use elements for many years. I frequently add notes to photo's. (see attachment 1) Then I use F11, full screen mode to present the photo's to others. Then I saw a black title bar with white text. 

Then I buy an update and it does not work anymore, because the titlebar is grey/transparant. 

So the text not good readable. (see attachment 2)

Now I am on holiday and I look in all settings but I cant find this.

For me this is terrible I have 65000 photo's, many with notes to tell stories.

Why did Adobe change it?

But my question is: how to fix this.

And if not possible, is it fixed in version 2025. Because if not I dont want to buy new versions anymore

Help would be very welcome

[jane-e]

@maartendf 

I've moved your post from Using the Community to the Photoshop Elements forum. 

Which version of PSE are you using now?

Jane

[Glenn 8675309]

I've just spent 20 minutes looking at this., using PSE 2025.

Captions, as displayed in your description, are  useless when viewed at 100%.  I could not find any way in the organizer or the editor preference files to adjust the caption overlay opacity.   Using the overlay tools of settings / theme does nothing to affect the actual overlay opacity. 

I next tried switching dark and light modes of the editor- which did not make any difference. 
I changed the view from single pane to double (using the available tool when viewing the image at 100% and caption text could be read.

I even went as far as to check my video card settings and there was nothing there I could change that affected the display. 




Below is when I changed the view from single pane, to double pane view.   Here you can see the text.

[Jeff Arola · Accepted solution]

It seems if one sets the Ui Mode under Edit>Preferences>General to Dark, then the captions are much more legible

in Fullscreen.

(on the Mac side Elements Organizer>Preferences>General>UI Mode)

Ui Mode Dark in Edit>Preferences>General

Ui Mode Light

Ui Mode Dark

[Glenn 8675309]

Mine were in dark mode, and that did not make any difference for me.  I"ll dink around with it some more later today.

[maartendf]

Excellent! For me this works. It is now readable.

I am very happy,

Thank you very much

[maartendf]

Thx, sorry, I didnt know where to put it, this was my first time using the forum

Hartelijke groeten
Maarten
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