How to change menu color section in Premiere Pro [windows 10]?

[aprilb33430790]

I have been trying to figure out how to change the color of the menu background (Please see image)

I have set my Windows 10 to dark theme, and I can't find what option to change it. 

Is it through Windows or is it within Premiere Pro?

Thank you in advance.

This section in particular:

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[Shivangi_Gupta]

Hi there,

Thanks for writing in. I find this an interesting suggestion. However, this feature is not available in Adobe Premiere Pro. I would suggest you to add your voice here: https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/38144161-allow-editors-to-c...

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Regards,

Shivangi

[gg55577924]

PLEASE MAKE THIS CHANGE or at least give the option, everyone on windows wants this change. It was changed with the update on mac already but not windows.

The entire program is dark except the menu which is the opposite of dark

[Shivangi_Gupta]

I get your point. Did you request for this feature on the Uservoice page I shared above? Could you share a link with me?

Thanks,

Shivangi

[R Neil Haugen]

That section is actually part of your Windows 'personalization' setup/options.

Neil

[lamc0]

Solution:

1. Go to Windows 10 Settings
2. Personalisation > Colours
3. Pick a colour (I use dark purple)
4. Scroll to the bottom and check the box titled: Title bars and window borders
5. Done.

[Fionn5CBE]

While this does solve the same problem for other software, unfortunately it doesn't fix the problem in Premiere.

[Fionn5CBE]

Usually you would be correct, as this does fix the problem for most software.
Unfortunately it doesn't work with Premiere, the ribbon remains glaringly white even after changing it.

(For anybody curious to test it, hit the Windows key (or click Start) and type "Settings".
Then type "Colours" and click "Choose accent colour." Scroll down and make sure the box that says "Title bars and windows borders" is ticked, and make sure you have selected a dark colour pallete in the "Windows colours" box.)

[Fionn5CBE]

So far the closest I can get it is by hitting ctrl and backslash within Premiere to hide the top part, and then auto-hiding the windows taksbar. If anybody finds a fully working solution, please let me know! 

[Relacja]

@Shivangi_Gupta - this Uservoice is quite ridiculous. Nobody is reading these "voices" - prove me wrong, please. 

[R Neil Haugen]

I've twice had my UV requests moved from filed to "in progress" ...including my recent one asking for an overall color management panel. I've talked in person with the engineers who log those in ... as every UV request is logged into their system by an engineer.

I've really no clue what you expect, there are several million daily users of PrPro with wildly different workflows & needs. Something that is dear to my heart might easily be total anathema to another user.

I'm also a Resolve user, work for and teach pro colorists. And even among colorists there are heated arguments over how anything works. Some will want it changed, some will very passionately argue against that change.

It's always a balancing act of users/workflows and budgets.

Neil

[THE-MZ]

Yes, It is annoying, Adobe should be consistent, PS/AI/ID all match the dark menu bar, Only Premier + AE has this problem.

[de_vorno]

Surely there's a fix for this issue?

[MatthewN86]

This was better handled in Photoshop. You can even quickly change graphical interface using the keys 'Shift+F1' or "Shift+F2".

[Lavanther]

Hello there,

I was having the same issue too, so this is what I did:

• open settings
• Accessibility > Contrast themes

Here you can select "Night sky" and you can also edit it to make it look however you want (I only use it when I use premiere pro so the "Alt + lest shift + print screen" shortcut really helps, it takes like a sec to load) and then in the app you can press "ctrl + backslash" to remove the title bar.

(I really don't know if there is a better way or not but this works for me)

[Andrek4all]

Win11 to. Ps -- normal, Pr and LrC are white

[macklad]

After four years later still this is not solved!

[Kevin-Monahan]

See if it's solved in Beta, @macklad - There's a new UI working there. Let us know!

Thanks,
Kevin

[michalisc83068561]

on 15/10/2024 adobe update premiere to v.25 and proudly talked about the new modern look. I think they missed the spot where the double white title bar is still there since 1991...
 Someone in the team needs to understand a simple thing: Monitors change every year, they get larger, they get higher rez, they get brighter. At the moment, OLED monitors are the peak of tech but they are also sensitive. The very bright bar on top PERMENTANTLY BURNS the monitor. So please LISTEN: turn EVERYTHING DARK. You are destroying your customer's very expensive monitors. Also, have some consistency between your applications. Follow the photoshop example and fix the UIs of all the rest. For crying out loud, do the basics first.

[macklad]

Hey kevin, sadly its still there. 

[andsoitgoes]

It is ASTONISHING this isn't sorted. Especially with how long many of us work in Adobe products, to go from an all-encompassing dark project to have to delve into blinding white menu options... MIND BOGGLING. 

This has been posted here for 4 years. FOUR. And nothing is done. I feel like all we're doing is screaming into the void.

[defaultrwe0zz8olhhm]

I can't believe this hasn't been fixed YET!!! I can't describe in words how annoying that white bar is when everything else is black. This isn't hard to do at all, Adobe. Photoshop, for instance, has had this crucial UI element for years. What are you waiting for? For all of us to cancel our subscriptions and migrate to DaVinci Resolve

[SteveWalkerWeb]

Adding additional noise here, this is very furstrating on an OLED display. Changing the accent colour settings in Windows 10/11 will change the very top title bar and you can get that to a very dark grey. But this still does not apply to the menu bar which is displaying bright white. Baffling.

[AlexVineyard]

Adding my voice as well. I've spent the last half hour trying things and wound up here, to find there's lots of others with the same unsolvable issue. It still shocks me how many websites don't implement a dark theme, but a professional level app that's been around for over 20 years... that is crazy. I care about my expensive ultrawide monitor, but I care more about my eye health. We're not getting any younger, and staring at these screens is bad enough, but add blinding transitions between dark and light as well? Hard on anyone, but especially for professional editors and night owls. I'm spending several hours a week in Premiere to edit my podcast/vlog, and its painful, but I know there are people who spend their entire days in Premiere, and my eyes hurt just thinking about their pain.

[void.paul.97]

I got shocked noticing that because, in Photoshop, the menu bar matches the dark theme, but Premiere's doesn't.

[void.paul.97]

One would think that, the company which develops the industry standard software for graphic design, has noticed this issue and fixed it. I mean, it is such a small detail like that which can bring inconsistency between products.