Is there a dark mode for photoshop elements 2020?

Yeah. Even Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022 appears to not have a dark theme AT ALL. I tried googling, and everyone says it doesn't have a dark theme.

A dark theme is a basic accessibility feature in modern apps. to allow people to not get eyestrain while working. All modern programs worth their salt have an optional dark theme built in. Online some say Elements USED to have a dark theme.

What this implies to me is the dark theme was taken OUT of the program, and this feels like an intentional insult by Adobe toward us "poor" customers to get us to pay much more for the Creative Cloud version. When your app is good, you don't have to hide basic accessibility features behind a paywall. And photoshop IS good... so why do this?

This is technically my fault - I didn't thoroughly research Photoshop Elements 2022 before purchasing, to ensure it had a dark theme. I also didn't research to ensure it can display fonts, that it contains a paint brush option, and that it has mouse support. Because I shouldn't have to double check that ANY app in 2022 has these basic features, let alone a paid professional image editing app. I was so excited to try Photoshop, but I just can't function productively without a dark mode.

You can change the brightness of the canvas area, which doesn't matter since the screen is still surrounding by glowing white bars - which have reportedly been made BRIGHTER recently to "make it easier for users to see." But I think this was done to make the "cheap users" even MORE uncomfortable. The Unity game engine made the same decision, only to smartly do a 180 and now offer both light and dark modes FREE in the FREE version of Unity. Since there's no reason to 1) not have this feature 2) take it out, or 3) make it worse, 4) when this feature could be added in an afternoon.

The only other possibility is that this was done intentionally by Adobe to make poor people's lives miserable for committing the crime against Adobe of being too poor to afford the Creative Cloud. When every other credible app in 2022 has long since implemented optional light and dark themes, this app looks straight out of 1995, and the excuse that Adobe "just didn't realize this was a desired or useful feature" does not fly. Blender is FREE, and you can customize every single color in that program. Adobe can afford to add a feature Blender can add for free. Again, a dark mode is a basic accessibility and productivity feature in modern apps. There are often work-arounds for these kinds of things unless the app makers intentionally lock the code away to prevent Windows themes from being able to be applied.

It's unfortunate I can't even begin evaluating this program to see if it could replace my previous paint/photo program, because I can't even see for a few minutes without eyestrain. This has made this $70 purchase, which Best Buy fulfilled in a timely fashion, a giant waste of my money, and I won't be trying any more Adobe products. I'll have to try other options like Gimp, Krita, Clip Studio Paint Pro, or keep using the terribly-performing Paint Shop Pro X9, unless I can find better suggestions. it's unfortunate because I was excited to finally actually learn official Photoshop, but it seems I'll need to become much richer to afford a version that's not going to hurt my eyes.