

Until then, I'm going to have to use an earlier version of AE CC, because the current version is impossible to look at for more than 5 minutes at a time.

Thus blue light contributes little to visual acuity and visual perception loses sharpness as the blue light component adds significantly to the eye's energy expenditure for focusing, and in reduced can greatly reduce eyestrain without loss of acuity." (Quinn, 1998)Īs a person who used to work at Autodesk - and who knows for a fact that their UI designers don't actually sit in front of the software and use it for 12 hours a day - I have to say that Adobe's "UI refresh" smacks of marketing more than any actual familiarity with using the software in production.Įither change the colors back to what they were, or give users the option to customize the UI and change it to the previous colors, because this is just atrocious. "Blue light wavelengths and part of the blue spectrum are focused in front of the retina, while green and yellow are focused on the retina, and some red spectrum is focused behind. (You can see this effect most noticeably when you look at blue Christmas tree lights.) The blue UI elements against the gray are absolute murder on the eyes. Here's the deal: bright blue light actually focuses in front of the retina, making it look out of focus. The current version of After Effects CC with the blue colors is absolutely unusable, to me.
