If you live mostly indoors away from sunlight in a dark room (like I do), you might want to “dim” the brightness of the Audition user interface to be easier on your eyes. Maybe you have vision problems and need the colors to be of higher contrast.  Or, maybe you just want the program to be more blue. This is easily accomplished.

From the “Edit” menu, select “Preferences“. Then click on the “Color” tab.

Here, you are presented with a list of each “skin-able” element on the left, along with an example of your work on the right. You may want to take a minute to thumb through the presets provided, as well, since there are some interesting combinations you can use as starting points to customize.

When it comes to the user interface itself (the windows, modules, etc), you can control that from the bottom portion of this dialog. Dragging the “UI Brightness” slider will darken/lighten Audition in real time, so you can tweak it to your liking quickly. For further customization, click the “Tint” button to give some color to the program. I’ve got mine tinted slightly to blue, for example.

Once you’ve got a look you like, save your preset by clicking “Save As” near the upper right boundary of the dialog box.  That way, you can recover it if you move computers or have to restore a backup.

Hint: If the background color in the multi-track mixer has become too dark or bright to read the text associated with the EQ, pan, send, and volume controls, you can remedy this by changing the color of the “Hot Text” item in the list described above.