Changing Backlit Keyboard Color

I think you mean iSpaz which makes the backlighting change in time with music ?

The YouTube link is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUXLkwlF9e8

This is a very foolish idea. By doing it, you will invalidate your new MBP's warranty and quite likely damage the computer at the same time. You should forget the whole notion immediately.

Just wondering if you've picked out a color yet.

+im talking about changing the actual color of the backlight+

The only way to change the color would be to swap each LED's for a different color, putting a gel/film over them would just impact air flow and cooling and is not advisable.

I've known photographers that replaced the white LEDs with red, which allowed them to use the keyboard in a darkroom.

Mightn't the light from the display undermine the usefulness of red keyboard backlighting in a darkroom?

Actually... I would think the display would be the primary problem. While the backlit keys are nice and easy to see... they don't actually radiate much light. Unless you were to maybe lay a negative right on top of the keys, I doubt the white backlit keys would be a problem. I think with the older MacBook Pros... there was some light bleeding around the keys (although still very minimal) but with the newer chicklet keys, light bleeding is nearly non-existent.

It would be easy to tape a red rectangular safelight filter over the display and tone down the brightness enough to avoid fogging photo paper, as long as the notebook was going to be kept open and stationary. Of course you couldn't expect to view colors on the display under those circumstances — I presume one would only do this for the purpose of recording processing information in a spreadsheet or similar monochrome application. You probably couldn't filter and tone down the display well enough to use it in the presence of unprocessed film, which is more light-sensitive than paper.

Probably best to use an old fashioned legal pad with a pen or a pencil in the darkroom, IMO.

"Mightn't the light from the display undermine the usefulness of red keyboard backlighting in a darkroom?"

The photographers turned off the display.

Very illuminating.

Well, I guess if you really wanted to undermine the usefulness of the keyboard, using it without a display would be a good start.

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Also during my darkroom days, I remember it was not always dark. (just during film processing and enlarging). Plenty of time to take notes in the "light of day".