... on many systems by using a lower colour depth. Nowadays it makes no difference, all monitors are optimised for 24-bit colour. Several of these ancient dialogs are on my to-do list for a re-write. Future archaeologists will dig them up and ponder their meaning. Don't forget you can create any colour scheme of your choice at trackpad> trackpad colours> menu items. For working over background maps I prefer to use the bright night colour scheme, with the map negated and contrast-reduced: 2_211318_310000000.png 2_211320_130000000.png which prevents the map being too obtrusive and leaves the templates bright and clearly visible. It's very easy to do: 2_211321_580000000.png After creating the background map, select it in the shapes list and then click the copy image button. Paste it into your favourite graphics editor program (I use PaintShopPro), click the Negative Image function in that program and set a reduced Contrast. Then copy it again from there, and click the paste button in the background shapes. (Implementing these functions directly in Templot is also on my ...