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Hello and welcome to this Tips and Tricks video for ZoomText 10.
In today’s video we’re going to show you how you can create your own custom Color scheme
in ZoomText.
There are a number of present Color schemes available in ZoomText that many people find
very helpful, such as the reverse video and black and white color schemes.
But for a lot of people, their particular eye condition warrants a different color combination.
Luckily, you can create your own custom scheme in ZoomText! Let's give it a shot!
Click on the Color icon and choose “Settings.”
Choose the Custom radio button.
In the “Effect” drop down, we can choose from a number of different custom color filtering
options, such as Black and White, Reverse video, Dyed, and Two-color. You can even choose
to Replace or Remove Colors that are problematic for your eyes.
Today, let’s walk through creating a custom Two-Color scheme.
The default foreground and background colors will be set to Black on White, for the sake
of an example, lets choose “Dark Blue” as our foreground color, and Yellow as our
background color. You can see that the entire screen is now
displayed using this color combination. Note that you can also choose your own custom color
by clicking on the “More colors…” option in the drop down. If you ever find yourself
in a situation where you’ve chosen some colors that make it difficult to read anything
on screen, you can always press the escape key and your settings will return to whatever
you had them before you started fiddling.
Back to our dark blue and yellow scheme. Once you find a color combination that works for
you, you can optimize the brightness and contrast onscreen using the two slide bars to the right
of the color options.
Increasing the brightness slider will make the image appear softer and more washed out,
while decreasing it will make it dimmer.
For this scheme, I’ll leave it right in the middle.
The contrast slide bar will decrease the difference in contrast between colors as you move the
slide bar to the left, and increase the difference in contrast as you move it to the right.
Move it too far to the right, and you’ll start to lose detail of some colors on screen.
I’m going to drag the slide bar to the left a couple notches to improve the image for
my eyes.
If you’re using a Zoom window like Overlay or Lens, you can even choose to apply the
color filter just to the Zoom window or background window.
When you’re finished, simply click the Ok button and now your custom scheme will be
turned on whenever you choose the “Custom” option under the Color icon. Don’t forget
to go to the File menu and choose “Save As Default” before you exit ZoomText so
that this setting will come up each time you launch ZoomText!
Thanks for watching, and be sure to check our blog for more tips and tricks videos in
the future!