Poser isnt made to be ui color change friendly I guess.

The psd files might have transparency in them and editing them might mess up the transparency.

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Yep they are all Multi Layer. Even if you "mess up the transparency" though by making the entire image blue (on every layer) then I would have thought the UI would have turned blue itself......

But yes its not really made for much customization.

Show off :) How did you do that btw? With the bucket tool?

I'm on record as saying that the Poser colour scheme is terrible; low-contrast and ignoring all the standard ways there are of letting a user set things up to suit their own tastes and needs. And I understand its the same on the Mac. Poser 6 does have some improvements, but it's so 20th Century...

Definitely. I did a review of it for my Human Computer Interface course. Gave it a very poor mark for visibility (grey on grey on grey)(Very imaginitive too I might add).

You certainly can mess with the PSD files, but be careful that you don't touch things like layer names, layer order, layer styles or layer visibility.

if there's one thing i'd like them to change in poser 7.... well, i can't lie, it would actually be unlimited undo. but the second thing would be this stupid, graphics intensive interface. at least give me the option of paring it down. it's inefficient in space and in memory - which poser really can't afford. this is an app, something i'm supposed to use not watch or be entertained by. i'm not supposed to even think about the interface, let alone be constantly reminded of it by huge icons and such. and, my god, aren't there enough necessary affordances that space for tools is at a premium?

I'd like a black/silver background color scheme. But that's just my personal taste.

I agree that the best option would be to allow individual users to make their own (easy) customized choices for colors.

PhilC -- as neat as your image is, I don't think that I'd much enjoy working in Poser if the interface constantly flashed ;). Such an effect would probably cause a serious headache after 30 minutes or so of staring at it.

stewer Are u sure? I edited the utility psd file which contains the images for the last thre icons in the main toolbar. I coloured in the selected magnifying glass blue (didn't change layer names/visibility/layer order). Reopen Poser and the last three icons vanish altogether.......

Xeno all Phill did was make multiple screenies after changing the background with the bucket tool and stitch them together into an animated GIF. You can't ACTUALLY animate the background in Poser.

Hmmm okay Looks like it was PSP X that was "corrupting" the PSD's. Problem with doing this in Photoshop is the files are so big I run out of memory!

Xeno all Phill did was make multiple screenies after changing the background with the bucket tool and stitch them together into an animated GIF. You can't ACTUALLY animate the background in Poser.

I know that....... ;)

But the thought alone is potentially headache-inducing.

Not bad, not bad. Yet another reason to spend a lot more money -- and use PS instead of PSP.

lol That was just a trial :) Going to redo the interface although I'm not sure about a black/silver one......... :) Keep your fingers crossed and maybe.....

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Xeno, Not just headache inducing. I know some friends of mine who would have seizure atttacks if they had to look at anything like that for more than 20 seconds. Yikes!

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hmmm now theres something interesting new i can play with

PSP CANNOT be used for editing Poser UI files. Poser uses an earlier format of PSD files, I believe, something like Photoshop 3 or 4. Photoshop or its decendent Photoshop Elements, respect this format. But PSP updates it and saves it out in the latest PSD format, which handles transpancy very differently, and results in a file which can't be read by Poser's rather old PSD file reader. This was determined back when we tweaked P5's library icon interface soon after it came out - see PoserPros Poser 5 forum for background.

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