Thanks Ragecgi. Looks like I'll be doing this in post. Another problem though is that I had the particles to collide with another object. Will I have to dump collisions if I plan on post compositing?
@starjsjswars- I just made a custom theme in windows and changed the color there so the color carries on in most programs with the "old" bar.
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