Changing the image color in Course detail

[jkingma]

I am a Mac user. In Canvas > Setting > Course Detail > Image, I am able to select choose an image to insert here. The image shows up, but it is "tinted" the color chosen for the image box. How do I change this so that it shows the "true" picture colors and not the "tint"? My colleague is able to see the "true" colors of his selected image (he is a PC user). Silly question, but it drives me nuts as I prep my courses in Canvas. It does not see to matter if I am using Safari or Chrome.

[Chris_Hofer]

Hi there, @jkingma ...

It seems strange to me that your course image on your course "Settings" page would be tinted.  The only place I know that a color overlay can be applied to images on course cards is on the Dashboard...not in a course "Settings" page.  When you are on your Canvas Dashboard looking at your course cards (those are the ones with your course image displayed on them), click on the three-dot kebab icon near the upper right corner of the screen and make sure that "Color Overlay" is not selected.  If it were selected, you would see color overlays on top of images on your course cards.  However, even if your color overlay was turned on within the Dashboard...that shouldn't display the color overlay on your course "Settings" screen...at least that is how it is working in my own sandbox course.

Have you tried clearing your history/cache on your browser?  Once you do this, close your browser completely, then re-start the browser, and see if anything has changed.

How do I clear my browser cache on a Mac?

Keep us posted on this...thanks!

[amtravco]

I have the same issue on a Mac. I don't see any "Color Overlay" setting when I click on the 3 dots. This is what my dashboard shows when I click on the three dots (I changed the color to almost white, #FEFEFE, to see if that helped, but now the image has a white tint.) 

[amtravco · Accepted solution]

OK, problem solved (after a bit more searching). See the section "View Color Overlay" on https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-view-my-favorite-courses-in-the-Card-Vi...

The three dots you need to click on are not the ones on the tile itself, but are above the tiles, to the right of the Dashboard heading.