How can I change the canvas surround color in Photoshop back from white to gray?
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In Photoshop, the area around my image canvas has changed from the usual gray to white. I’m not talking about the image background layer, but the workspace area surrounding the canvas. It makes it hard to see where the canvas edges are. The gray background returns in full-screen mode, so it seems only the standard screen mode was changed. How do I set the canvas surround color back to gray?
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If you have an image opened, you can right click the background canvas and change the color that way. The default options in Photoshop CS5 are Black and Gray, but you can also define a custom color if you'd like.
To fix this through the menus, go to the Interface section in the Photoshop preferences. There are separate background canvas settings for standard, full-screen, and full-screen-with-menu interface modes.
In your case, you've inadvertently modified the standard setting, but full-screen is still the default gray color. That is why it's gray when you when you switch to full-screen mode.
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You can change the canvas surround color in Photoshop without affecting your image itself.
Two common ways:
- Right-click the area around the canvas (with an image open) and choose a surround color such as Gray, Black, or a custom color.
- Go to Preferences > Interface and look for the canvas/background color settings. Photoshop keeps separate settings for Standard Screen Mode, Full Screen, and Full Screen With Menu Bar. If only normal view is white, the Standard mode setting was likely changed.
You can also use the Paint Bucket method mentioned by users: choose a color and Shift-click the canvas surround area to change it. If you want the common gray, use approximately RGB 204, 204, 204.
This only changes the workspace appearance around the canvas, not the actual photo background.
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