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Small glowing bright white text on a black background is very difficult to read. It glares, flares, reflects inside the eye and within glasses lenses, creating multiple ghosted images. Combined with parts of letters being faded due to text being too small and thin, the GUI is uncomfortable and difficult to read. Recommend reviewing dark themes for all apps to be pale grey (near white) on dark grey (similar to Adobe CS, Affinity, etc).
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As a rule, even well-designed dark themes can be problematic on calibrated high contrast monitors with aging eyesight. For this reason, recommend adding a light theme, same as provided with Gigapixel and Photo for consistency. Image and video evaluation might benefit from a third theme more in-between the two extremes, but leaning darker than mid. All themes should of course be neutral and not tinted (so far that does not seem to be a problem, although some earlier apps did have odd tints, and colored GUI elements can tilt color perception).
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Menu items are scaled/spaced differently to Gigapixel and Photo, plus Preview toggles are consistently placed for Photo and Video, but not Gigapixel (I think Gigapixel layout works better because it can save screen space to display more image by getting rid of the top bar). It makes it easier to switch between applications and creates a better overall impression of the behind the scenes organisation and effort when apps in a suite match up well by using the same GUI framework and conventions.
The team is working on some UI updates and designs, I will pass along your notes for their review.
Thank you for submitting them and apologies for the delay in response. Been trying to get through and clean up the forums.
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