Photoshop Problem ... [SOLVED]

[Darth Mandarb]

This is a pretty dumb question.Ã,  One which I'm a little upset I can't solve on my own actually.

In photoshop, if I create an image, and then I expand the image to full screen (or just pull the bottom corner out a little) the area surrounding the image has gone black.Ã,  It used to be gray.Ã,  Now it's black.

I want it to go back to being gray.

I've scoured the help file and the Adobe knowledge base, but I can't find anything.Ã,  Mostly 'cause I don't really know what to search for.

Anybody know how to change the background color of the workspace?

- I run a dual monitor system and I've tried changing the background color of them in Windows (thinking that might effect the color in PS) and that didn't effect it.

I 'preciate any advice/help

[Miez]

Have you (accidently) pressed the 'F' key a few times? it gives a black backdrop in of the view modes... other than that I have no idea...

[Haddas]

Edit -> Preferences -> Transparency & Gamut?

[Darth Mandarb]

Have you (accidently) pressed the 'F' key a few times? it gives a black backdrop in of the view modes... other than that I have no idea...

That was my first thought on where to search; 'screen mode', but I'm in standard when this happens, not Fullscreen.

Edit -> Preferences -> Transparency & Gamut?

Yeah, I tried that too ... no love.

Thanks for the guesses so far!

Anybody else?

[lgm unplugged]

Maybe your monitor or GFX card is broken :-p

Dunno, I don't use Photoshop anymore. Just felt like being a moron while I wait for class to finish.

[Evil]

I remeber having this problem before too, but I can't remeber what I did to fix it, and I looked everywhere. Did you try a restart?

[Darth Mandarb]

@ LGM:
I doubt it's a graphics card issue, as everything else seems to be okay.  Thanks though.

@ Evil
Think harder :)Ã,  It's been doing this for awhile now, and I've just been ignoring it.Ã,  (I've restarted several times since the problem arose)

The thing is this, I use so many hotkeys in photoshop (I barely touch the mouse it seems sometimes) that I'm sure I just hit a wrong combination of keys one time that caused this.

Logic should dictate that if it can be done, it can be undone!

[LGM]

Well.. If a bunch of monkeys can write Shakespeare eventually, I think you can hit a certain key combination aswell.. Just give it a few months.

[juncmodule]

Shift + Fill on the background.

I just tried it and it worked.

later,
-junc

[Darth Mandarb]

DING DING DING!!!

juncmodule wins!!

Thank you sooooooooooo much!  You have saved me from pulling out all my hair!

What can I do for you?  Can I send you Wacom tablet as payment

Thanks junc!

[dasjoe]

if junc doesnt want it.. i would take it!

[juncmodule]

No problem.

The power of google 

I imagine that could be very frustrating. I've gotten myself into a few silly situations like that with PS before. Like forgetting to turn off "snap to" and never being able to figure out why the cursor keeps on snapping to the edge of the image.  Usually the solution is something really simple.

What can I do for you?  Can I send you Wacom tablet as payment

Only if you are done with it. Have you got much use out of it? For some reason I've been thinking I might get some use out of it again. I'm sure it would just sit around gathering dust again though...

if junc doesnt want it.. i would take it!

Sorry, it's actually mine. I let Darth "borrow" it a while back. More like I gave it to him to use until it starts gathering dust and then ship it back to me so it can gather dust with me again .

later,
-junc