Computer Glasses
Anyone ever try these things? Im on a computer probably 12 hrs a day minimum from work to playing games, if im not playing hockey im usually on a computer. My eyes got bad a few years back, i got glasses and the usual i was just curious if anyone has tried these to reduce the strain
Nick
Nick
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bet they get real expensive when you add a prescription to them tho!
Now I can't stand looking at a screen without them. I think it has a lot more to do with the lenses than the yellow tint though. When my new benefits kick in, I'm getting my eyes checked again and new (regular) glasses. The yellow "dims" everything to an extent, and screws with color perception. I have to take them off when texturing because of the hue change.
I'm mostly tired of the way they look. Going in, you know you're not buying them because they look cool, but when you look in the mirror you'll think they don't look half bad. The problem is, you're looking at yellow glasses through yellow lenses... so they're a lot more yellow than you realize. Don't kid yourself, they look dumb.
I'd recommend getting a thorough eye exam and regular glasses with anti-glare lenses instead.
As for anti-glare glasses, from my recollection, they were essentially polarized glasses with a sight vignette in some cases, again, I'm not sure how 'good' they are for an artist.
My best advice is to calibrate your monitor instead, you should be able to clamp exp. values between 0.1-0.9 with some progs and soften the 'bleed' of the white hues if there are any. Many laptop tend to automatically apply this math when you take the brightness down to 1 or 2. I'm not kidding, if you have a laptop like an ASUS, you can drop down the brightness to 1 and increase to 2 at most, and you'll get true colors without burning your eyes, makes you wonder why some artist go all out full
If anyone is willing in advising some nice programs that allow you to play directly with the source of our issues, I'm pretty sure now is the time to be a hero.
You have to hand adjust each monitor, they are all different, windows 7 has a color calibration option in the control panel. But there are a lot more calibration images online.
Blink a lot.
When your working on your PC, you can get really focused on your monitors...and without realizing you will blink significantly less. This causes your eyes to dry out and leads to eye strain. You have to try to remember to blink more...even if you don't need to blink, just doing it will help get a little more moisture on your eyes and you will be much less likely to get an eye strain.
I have a pair, I tend to forgot to put them on but whenever I do I am really glad. The yellow tint blocks the bad blue rays, contrast is increased, and they have a very subtle magnification and warping going on making you feel "inside" the picture. I really quite like them ! They feel very good when looking at an ipad or a PSP screen too.
1. Don't cheap out on your monitor. Get good quality with good definition.
2. Find out how big your monitor is and then work out how far you have to sit away. I've got a 24" monitor and I make sure I keep my head atleast at a 70cm distance. Since I moved my monitor back I rarely get eye fatigue.
3. Calibrate your monitor(s). I found THIS website great as it helps you adjust things that you wouldnt normally think about, but make a huge difference.
EDIT: This is more for Desktops, as opposed to laptops.
This is such an underestimated point. My desk at home is about half the depth of the one i have at uni and i get so much more eye strain with being closer. to the monitor.
I swear by this now. You just disable for a hour when texturing. Dont freak about pinkish white, its a matter of perception which doesn't mean anything if your just working on mesh ect. And you get used to it really quickly.
I've installed this on all the computers at our uni and its gotten nothing but positive feedback.
I've done over 100 hours of work this week on computers an it has saved my life. (massive deadline, lots of caffeine pillz)
This also helped a lot of my eyes because you actually calibrate your monitors brightness to match the surrounding light.
For $250 I can't think of a reason why every studio shouldn't have one, I wish I could rent one for a one time set up.