How to change Cover Flow background color in finder?

I realize that there's (as far as I can tell) no way to do this via the GUI, I'd welcome any more creative suggestions too.
My wife uses software called TruEmbroidery to create and edit designs for her sewing machine. She likes to use the cover flow view to browse her files - BUT many designs' "previews" consist largely of dark colors and alpha (transparency). Hence, the dark default background of cover flow makes them hard to discern.
Is there any way - however creative - to change it? I found this terminal command (below) on another forum, but it doesn't seem to work in Mountain Lion.
defaults write com.apple.Finder IKImageFlowBackgroundColor 255,255,255

sorry could not get the alternative to execute either, so I removed it.
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