default colour preferences

[stuck]

On my Win 10 PC, in Photo 1, the default colour prefs look like:

 

However, in Photo 2 the defaults are subtly different, here the option to 'convert opened files to working space' is not ticked:

Is having that option UNticked by default a deliberate design decision?

[R C-R]

8 hours ago, stuck said:

Is having that option UNticked by default a deliberate design decision?

I don't know what the default is (& it may depend on if you migrated any settings from V1 to V2) but I noticed that in your V2 screenshot several of the ticked options like Black point compensation are greyed out, as if they cannot be changed. On my Mac, none of them are greyed out & all of them can be ticked or unticked.

I wonder if that much is some sort of Mac vs. Windows difference....

[GarryP]

13 hours ago, R C-R said:

I noticed that in your V2 screenshot several of the ticked options like Black point compensation are greyed out, as if they cannot be changed.

I don’t think they are greyed-out, it’s just how the text is displayed in the Windows versions of the applications.

There is a “Text Contrast” setting in Preferences/User-Interface but even the highest contrast setting doesn’t get us white text.

This (quite baffling, to me) change from V1 to V2 has been complained about many times but I’ve never seen any reasonable explanation from Serif about why it was changed in the first place. (Not that they have to explain themselves, but it would be nice to know why they made the software harder to use.)

I’m glad whoever had the idea for this isn’t in charge of road markings – “Hey, you know those garish yellow lines that are really visible and help drivers to know what to do? Let’s make them a mid-grey instead so they look better against the dark grey road.”

[stuck]

15 hours ago, R C-R said:

I don't know what the default...

Both of my screen shots were taken after resetting everything, i.e. in both cases I held down the CTRL key and then ticked all the boxes in the resulting dialog.  Also, when Photo 2 asked me if I wanted to import stuff from Photo I said no.  In other words, to the best of my knowledge, these two screen shots show the default prefs as set by Serif.

1 hour ago, GarryP said:

I don’t think they are greyed-out, it’s just how the text is displayed in the Windows versions of the applications.

Correct and yes, it is a baffling choice and not at all an improvement.

[R C-R]

5 hours ago, GarryP said:

I don’t think they are greyed-out, it’s just how the text is displayed in the Windows versions of the applications.

Weird. They are all the same shade of white-ish text in he Mac versions.

[stuck]

5 minutes ago, R C-R said:

Weird

Yes, it's what Marketing call 'progress' 🙃

[R C-R]

2 minutes ago, stuck said:

Yes, it's what Marketing call 'progress' 🙃

I mean it is weird that it is different in the Mac version than in the Windows one.

[stuck]

2 minutes ago, R C-R said:

I mean it is weird that it is different in the Mac version than in the Windows one.

Yes, but that doesn't make my comment wrong 🤪