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Changing the pasteboard color

Changing the pasteboard color - Photoshop Tutorial

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Changing the pasteboard color

In this exercise, we're going to change the color of this light gray area that falls outside of the image. So basically, we're looking at an image that's too small, at least the way it's zoomed out right now, to fill up the entire image window. So we have this excess area out here that I call the pasteboard. Technically, it's not a pasteboard, because you can't put stuff on it. But you can actually have pieces of layers out there if you want. You're just not going to see them the way you would on the pasteboard in something like InDesign. But now, when I prefer to do, notice there is a Drop Shadow around it. I don't necessarily approve of that Drop Shadow. And the color is just too darn light in my opinion. This gray is too light in order to really see the image effectively onscreen. So I like to darken things up and potentially get rid of the Drop Shadows. So here's how you work. First of all, I clicked OK out of the Preferences dialog box in order to accept my changes. You should…

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