Comments on: How to Invert the Mac Screen Colors in OS X Mountain Lion

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 03:25:24 +0000

So is there a way to take a screenshot with the colors inverted (and have it stay that way)? Every time I’ve tried the colors just go back to normal when I switch back, is there a way to capture this on screen?

By: mook mook

mook mook — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:13:53 +0000

OR you can just do this: System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Accessibility > turn on option for Invert Colors.

Default key combo is – wait for it – cmd-alt-ctrl-8

Just like old times.

By: Sue Dunham

Sue Dunham — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:54:47 +0000

The more I read about ML, the stupider it seems. It’s like Jobs tasked them to screw with their customers.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 05:49:46 +0000

It was not by accident or spite this was left unchecked by default in Mountain Lion.
Prior to this a lot of people were calling up AppleCare every week, saying ‘there’s something wrong with my screen’, and it was just a case of cmd-alt-ctrl-8 pressed by accident; you’d be surprised how often this happens. And some of them were not even calling up, but taking it straight to the Genius Bar.

It’s the same principle behind why they hid the user Library.

By: Ceveces

Ceveces — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:33:56 +0000

I agree I do not like change to longstanding features. Why bother? Like the save as mess, needless annoyance a la Microsoft.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:20:06 +0000

Even easier, you can just re-enable the keyboard shortcut by going into Prefs->keyboard->keyboard shortcuts
click on accessibility on the left list and check the “Invert Colors” box.

The really hard question is why Apple chose to f*ck with users by unchecking this and also by removing web sharing – just having fun or merely incompetent.
I dont know…