valuetube Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 Ok i've been useing paint.net for the past at least 6 to 7 years, and I just the past year I been having the biggest gripe with it. IT NEEDS A DARK THEME. It would help so much if I could get my hands on one, I've tried to shearch around for somthing but been coming up short. I did read somwhere that it's not even possible to edit the program to achive this. I absolutly love doing all my projects in paint.net, but the constant starring at the screen for long persiods of times burn my eyes at times and when Im working on darker images, my eyes are trying to adjest to both the brightness of the boarders and a dark image I'm working on that has a lot of details. For the love thats great, plaease add a dark theme to the program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 There are two themes, Blue and Light (as far as I recall). Find these in Settings > User Interface > Color Scheme The issue with a dark theme is that many of the control won't play nicely with it. Rick has commented on this before. If the default schemes don't suit you, your best bet is to tweak your Windows theme. ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJW Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 valuetube, please give your threads better names. Perhaps something like "Request for dark theme" for this one. "Need some info" tells us nothing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 If paint.net were written in WPF or a custom UI framework, this would be fairly straightforward. But it uses WinForms, and a black background just doesn't end up working well. Some controls work fine, others are stubborn and just don't work. Black text on black background, that kind of stuff. Your best bet is to use a High Contrast theme from the Personalization control panel. Paint.NET does respect the coloring from those. The downside is that it affects the whole system. The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ackie Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 I thought I read WinForms allows you to use an application-wide theme of sorts.. Something like this would be incredible... https://www.devexpress.com/products/net/controls/winforms/skins/ Themes like: & Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted November 23, 2016 Share Posted November 23, 2016 Thread has been dead a year Ackie. If you wish to revive a conversation, please just start a new thread. Thanks ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 ( FYI, Dark Theme is coming in the 4.0.20 update: https://blog.getpaint.net/2017/12/11/coming-in-4-0-20-dark-theme/ ) The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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