so all that makes everything look cool in my opinion, but I wanted to know if anybody had a way to do that but not make it apply to certain things, like iphoto pictures or pictures off of the internet. I like the effect, but it messes with some things like games. Anyway to control what it effects?
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I believe it is an all or nothing effect. IIRC, it is an option for the sight impaired, designed to improve contrast and make the screen more easy to see.
If you want to do it to pictures, just open it up in something and invert the colours. That's all the key combo is doing.
photoshop can invert the colors for you, don't know if iPhoto or Preview can though. but thats all that its doing.
Am I right in saying you want photos in iPhoto to be in black and white? If so, go to iPhoto and edit them to B&W. Not tried doing them en masse, but it appears to me that's what you are asking for, nothing else.
If you then want to invert the colours, you should be able to invert the B&W image and the colours will be a negative of the B&W image. Since iPhoto doesn't destroy the original images, it should be easy making multiple different copies and/or going back to the original.
If you then want to invert the colours, you should be able to invert the B&W image and the colours will be a negative of the B&W image. Since iPhoto doesn't destroy the original images, it should be easy making multiple different copies and/or going back to the original.
Actually not tried it under Tiger, but you can bet I will as soon as I can. Man I need my MacBook soon to be able to try things out immediately. 
That could be it. I'll have to check that out with a friends PB. Anyway it is a fun little thing to do while I am at an Apple store.mpw said:
mpw said:
No.
If you go look in the Universal Access preference pane, where you find the White on Black/Black on White option, there's usually another one for Grayscale only, and leaving that unchecked will invert the colors and leave them intact. Otherwise, it'll invert and make it grayscale. All the more easier for people who need those extra accessibility features. I believe the grayscale/color option is available at least from 10.2 onwards, if not, then since whenever that inversion feature was available in the OS.
well, i wasn't talking about the key combo itself, i was talking about the ability to switch to inverted color in generalmpw said:
but, for the key combo, yes, i think it was grayscale only.
notice now though, if you have greyscale checked off, your whole monitor will stay greyscale, even if inverted is turned off. i think that was what changed with the intro of Tiger.