Dark gray UI in QU?

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« on: November 02, 2012, 03:51:46 AM »

Is there a way to set the UI of QU to dark gray, like Photoshop CS6 or LR4? I've tried the various QU skins, and they just don't cut it. They're all way too bright.


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Terry-M

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Re: Dark gray UI in QU?

« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2012, 09:16:04 AM »

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Is there a way to set the UI of QU to dark gray, like Photoshop CS6 or LR4?

This should be better for you, see: -
http://ddisoftware.com/tech/qimage-ultimate/v2013-104-issuescomments/msg12861/#msg12861
Thankfully, Mike has not copied the "fashion" of other programs that have a very dark grey and black UI.
Terry


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Fred A

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Re: Dark gray UI in QU?

« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2012, 10:41:08 AM »

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This should be better for you, see: -

Amazing!
I feel certain that more of you besides Terry and me, have updated your Qimage Ultimate, and no comments?
This is a forum... so say something... you like? You don't like? You are waiting to get used to it before you make up your mind?

I love it. It seems to add quality and oomph to my images.
This is not make believe stuff when you think about it.
Proper frames and proper mounting are essential to show a print off to its fullest potential.
Same goes for proper lighting and where the picture is hung.
All combine to get the best out of the work.

I pop around through a few image folders that I shot months ago, and I can't believe I passed on so many that look a lot better now.
Worth re-visiting just to look.

Naturally, a Graphic User Interface (GUI) is very subjective. We each see something that is too much ;; too bright, dim, contrasty, flat, I liked the old one better.... so it's a tough job to make a new face and hope that it's accepted.

Another thing you ought to know, (cuz I know Mike) a lot of technical thought and planning went into the new face.
What color combinations are easier to see and yet do not tire the eye and brain?

Same for the shade of gray of the screen, thumb frames, menu backgrounds, and making the text easy to read in all the menus.... many different colors and shades.
So this in not the same as going into Home Depot and looking at paint chips for the kitchen.

So to sum up my thoughts; not only is it pleasing to the eye, but serves an actual purpose to enhance the look of your images in a real setting.

Thanks for listening...

Fred


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Re: Dark gray UI in QU?

« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2012, 11:48:14 AM »

@Fred A, I agree some more super improvements from Mike. My images look so good since I upgraded, trouble is now I cannot compare to how it was before Grin


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Re: Dark gray UI in QU?

« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2012, 12:33:33 PM »

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I cannot compare to how it was before

I think you can... Just click EDIT PREFERENCES, SKINS, and select the one you had before.

No point in me sending you the previous 103 because the choice of skin was your personal one anyway.
Glad you liked it. Me too.
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Re: Dark gray UI in QU?

« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2012, 03:39:14 PM »

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Proper frames and proper mounting are essential to show a print off to its fullest potential. Same goes for proper lighting and where the picture is hung.

I regularly enter prints into my local photographic club competitions where the rule is that prints are mounted (mattes in US speak). However, judges and exhibition acceptance panels seem to be stuffy about the colour of mounts so white, black or grey has to be used to avoid criticism. This is completely different to exhibitions of paintings.
I generally use an off-white mount or a mid grey, particularly for black & white prints and always a narrow printed border to help the print to stand out from the mount.
At our club we do have a proper illuminated print stand for judging purposes and at home I use an Ott-Lite to check colour and contrast of prints.
So, how is all this related to the new Darkroom skin? It's easier to judge the look of an image throughout the QU process from thumbnail to print without the surrounding parts of the UI affecting my judgement, not too dark, not too light and neutral. Wink

Terry


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Fred A

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Re: Dark gray UI in QU?

« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2012, 06:32:26 PM »

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Do you ever win?


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Re: Dark gray UI in QU?

« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2012, 09:32:09 PM »

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Do you ever win?

Yes, which is nice. I always get good comments about the quality of my prints (I wonder why that is? Roll Eyes

)
Last season I managed to get 2 cups, one for prints and one for projected images in a series of three competitions, each with a specific theme. So far this year a highly commended for a nature print and a commended for a panel of 5 prints. Wish me luck for this coming Wednesday on the subject of "Light".
I quite enjoy the challenge of competitions, makes you think about a subject and take photos accordingly and it's an excuse to make a nice mounted print that could be put on a wall at home.
Terry


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Fred A

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Re: Dark gray UI in QU?

« Reply #8 on: December 02, 2012, 09:42:00 PM »

I knew all this, and it's time you bragged a little bit. You are allowed!

I have been the recipient of many of Terry's images; we share.
I must tell you, from my heart, "I wish I was half the photographer that he is".

Fred


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KolinP

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Re: Dark gray UI in QU?

« Reply #9 on: December 14, 2012, 04:57:55 AM »

Quote from: Fred A on December 02, 2012, 10:41:08 AM

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This should be better for you, see: -

Amazing!
I feel certain that more of you besides Terry and me, have updated your Qimage Ultimate, and no comments?
(....)
I love it [the Darkroom skin]. It seems to add quality and oomph to my images.
(....)
So to sum up my thoughts; not only is it pleasing to the eye, but serves an actual purpose to enhance the look of your images in a real setting.
Fred

I agree!

I also like this new Darkroom skin, a LOT! It really is superb, crisp and clear, and I'd even say it's welcoming!

I'll admit that after my first quick dabble with the skins that were available when I first used Qimage Ultimate (in v2012.221) I just took the program's "workplace" for granted ... and got on with my work, but - at the risk of over-stating things a bit - this new skin adds a hard to define "polish" to my QU environment. It's beautiful, especially when I'm working with black & white images!

(I haven't been printing much recently, hence my late response.)

Thank you Mike for setting this standard in sheer workspace clarity. I forget when I last felt so comfortable with a Windows program User Interface, and I've used hundreds over the years.

Colin P.

Incidentally: In case it's relevant - I use Windows 7 with all of that Windows 7 "Glass" stuff turned OFF, and I've got my Windows-component preferences (the 'Window furniture' stuff) wound back to look as close to XP as is possible - so it's a testament to you and to your Darkroom skin that everything (here) is rendered so well, given that my Desktop and my Windows 7 preferences are so far from "normal", in Microsoft's presumed terms!!

Colin P.


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