What I forgot to add:

Are taking any NEW medicine for an ongoing or new ailment?

Are you in a pollen region?

Mould and other air borne organic material heading/headed your way?

"Sweat" and salt from sweat can irritate the eyes IF your ducts aren't coping. Also once you START rubbing your eyes - I do it too! - this CAN set up an infection and this in itself can exacerbate the symptom too.

Go see your medic!!

Grazie

thanks for your concern grazie - truly appreciated.

however, having designed and worked in tv studios for longer than i care to think, your observations are spot on, but i am aware of all the relevant factors you pointed out, and i have to say this isn't something new in particular - just a request...

it's not that i have anything set-up out of whack or the like - i just finished working on a project in edius, and prior to that, one on avid, and coming back to vegas was like 'wow, man, far out! was it always this bright in here?'

and that said, coming back to vegas is like coming home to your own toilet after using a service stations......

have a good weekend

leslie

I'm with you on this. It's not just that the interface looks like it was designed by Mattel it's that there's good reasons why it's visual design is bad for the task.

Bob.

I love the ccolor/brigthness!

Working in that drab dark gray atmosphere for a few hours or so and I find myself so depressed I feel like swinging from the neck on the nearest tree. Of course the artistic side of me has been all but COMPLETELY by that time too.

b. the eye strain from such a BRIGHT gui

This can be solved very easily. The color for most of the background in Vegas is taken from the "3D Objects" item in the advanced Display properties of Windows. Set it to any color you like, preferably a dark gray, and your eyes will suffer less strain.

If you have XP, right click on the desktop and choose Display properties. Click the Appearance tab, and then click Advanced. In the Item list choose 3D Object from the drop down item menu. Then click on color 1 and choose whatever color you want.

In Vista right click on the desktop, choose personalize, click on Window Color and Appearance, in the new window click on Open classic appearance etc, then on the new window click the Advanced button and In the Item list choose 3D Object from the drop down item menu. Then click on color 1 and choose whatever color you want.

Maybe I am getting old to, but I think Ushere is right. I use Paint Shop Pro, formerly a Jasc product now currently owned by Corel. The Version 12 release included a switch for either the traditional "windows settings" color, or a new GUI scheme called "carbon". The Carbon GUI is neutral grays, like an Adobe GUI, and I have to say, my eyes are much happier at the end of a day of image editing. The neutrality of the colors is equally important as the ease on the eyes. I think we all hate the occasional ugly surprises that await when we look at our color corrected footage elsewhere.

Joe

Agree completely. Vegas users have been begging for the option to have a darker GUI for years. The only thing you can do is change your Windows theme and it will affect Vegas. That's the first thing I do when installing Vegas because I detest the default view. I believe Vasst has some presets you can download and try. I don't think they work with Vista though.

Well, either I've gotten used to it over the years or my eyesight is so bad I'm immune to it. Fact is after trying Edius and Premiere Pro I welcomed the brighter interface.

I did repaint the back wall behind my monitors a darker gray in my studio and that reduced ambient reflection.

Mike

sebaz....

many thanks - the simple change 3d objects colour worked perfectly well for me. the lighter shade of grey is much less 'bright' and easy to work with.

thanks again

leslei