Can we have an option to change selection color instead of green?

Yes - its too striking. And at times I would prefer it to be gray. I would really prefer the ability to control the color per mockup, or preference.

Michael agrees with Michael. The current green is so saturated and intense that it tends to draw attention from the rest of the mockup. If that value is hard-wired, it'd be nice to dial it down a notch. Even better would be setting the value as an application preference.

The problem is its too distracting. When I show a mockup as a proposal, peoples eyes are drawn to the green. Everything is mostly black and white, but the green just stands out way too much. Many times I only have one selected UI component, so its the only color in my whole mockup.

What I have had to do in the past is edit the image in photoshop and convert it all to grayscale.

Not for me, no.
I fully agree that color should not be important in a mockup.
The problem is that any color will stand out so much So the users with whom I discuss the mockups and even more so people responsible for the styleguide/corporate design will immediately focus on that color rather on the important design issues.
I am afraid for me nothing but orange will do (see www.lufthansa-technik.com and the selection highlight in the menu).
A global setting would be fine - no need to have this per mockup.

Currently whenever I use a mockup for the concept documentation I export to clipboard and use Paint.NET to replace green with orange. Quite tedious.

I tend to just overlap a transparent grey rectangle over the top.

But yeah, a per app mapping is fine, I'm not fussed if I don't have control on a per mockup basis.

Hm, reflecting on how I used to do mockups with pencil and eraser:
Another option would be to show highlight not using a color, but hatched.

But I guess that's not so easy to implement, either :-(

Two selection color candidates, for discussion and maybe the poll:

OK - So I am not a fan of Green or yellow and wish it was just a darker shade of gray.

Wouldn't something like this please everybody?
Except maybe for Peldi wo would have a hard time implementing it ;-)

OMG - I love it!!!

Could there be a switch in the view menu called "Gray Scale" that changes the colors to the closest matching gray color?

Peldi, I see your point about the potential washout. How about a just a little bit darker, with just a touch more saturation. The top swatch show below uses 0xcceecc, while the one below it uses 0xaaeebb:



The second one -- 0xaaeebb -- looks like it might stand up better, and is even a little more attractive. Worth another ten-minute try?

Count me in as a user who would like to see an option to, at the very least, use a grey colour instead of a green one. Any obvious colour really does stand out too much for my stakeholders - they always get caught up in talking about what the colour should be...

Peldi, given that you already provide "background" colour and/or "text colour" choices for several controls, how difficult would it be to add a "selection colour" option to those controls that display selections? I realize that it means a user who wants anything other than the default green would have to manually set it for each relevant control, but wouldn't that be easier to implement than adding a feature to support a global highlight colour?

Another method of showing "selection" without using colour, by the way, would be to make the border for selected items thicker or placing a second border inside the line of the selected item (see the image below):



My guess would be that implementing this might work in a similar way to how a "selected" checkbox or radio button gains a new shape within the old. I don't really know, of course, and it may be just as hard as trying to do a hatched background. Either way, I thought it was worth mentioning.

Now that the colour has been removed from the tabs, I find it really hard to tell which tab is selected (even with the most recent improvements). Any chance that you can put colour back for the tabs, but make it a user selected option?

Excellent. That's much better.

Color should not be an issue -- but it always is. The users get distracted by the choice of color. I'd rather have the "selected" color as an environment setting.

Can I manually set the selection color somehow?

I would really appreciate to define the selection color per-document, with a configurable default setting per machine. This would avoid many futile discussions with stakeholders on my side (as the green has a specific meaning in some projects). Thank you for the enhancement of this great product!

I have the same problem in my project now

I'd also like to see a per document 'selection' colour. Heck, I'd actually like to see a global selection colour, with a per mockup override, but that may be pushing it :)

@Gavin: no, I actually agree with you. The green doesn't fit my designs too, sometimes. I'd rather see a shade of aqua blue, like the colour of the background of this page, for example.

But I think we're facing a problem of taste and personal preference here. Therefore I'd opt for setting the colour once in Balsamiq, and that everywhere that you use an object that is highlighted, Balsamiq looks for 'Highlightcolour' instead of a colour value.

I don't know if Flash is so easy with getting colour values from variables, and if this makes it complicated for third-party people who like to design some easy component and don't want to bother about the right highlight-colour.

Yay! Nice work.