Save your eyes - Adjust brightness
polycounter lvl 14
It's been mentioned a few times but it makes such a difference for my eyes figured it's worth it's own thread for anyone not already aware.
F.lux is a free little program that makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.
Once catch is to not use it for anything color related, but other than that it's great.
http://stereopsis.com/flux/
F.lux is a free little program that makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.
Once catch is to not use it for anything color related, but other than that it's great.
http://stereopsis.com/flux/
Replies
Just make sure you don't forget to use the disable option if you're doing color sensitive work.
My eyes stopped straining instantly. Feels like eye sex.
Thanks for this LRoy. Best thread of the moment ^ _ ^
Maybe it's just me, though.
It's probably very dependent on your monitor, color settings, and the lighting conditions in your room. I just installed it and I like the idea but I'm not completely sold on it yet. I've never had major problems with eye strain, and the altered colors are bugging me. I wish there was an option to have it simply affect screen brightness rather than color mapping, and an option to toggle it on/off completely, not just for an hour.
It also doesn't get along with lcd overdrive, which causes page scrolling to give a eye bugging effect
I keep the icon as always visible on the sys tray and just right right click + disable for an hour if I'm doing some art-work past 6 or so, and just close out of it if I'm working for longer.
Also good for watching TV/movies from my comp on my TV late at night.
e: make sure to turn on gradual changes from the settings
I'd rather play with the videocard brightness settings in the NVidia control panel, or mess around with my screen built-in settings. However the lack of presets to easily cycle through sure is a pain ...
Can't wait for e-Ink monitors really - they will solve pretty much all computer eyestrain problems in no time!
No no, its relative. So after about 15mins the peach-white just looks like regular 'white' to you. You can't even tell its peachy anymore.
I'd say its also acceptable to watch porn with. I'm sure there's a 'masturbation leads to blindness' joke in there but I can't be bother.
Cheers LRoy for the link!
My eyes don't seem to get that tired now I've swapped to a daylight bulb, I'd definitely recommend one!
Awesome for long modelling/sculpting sessions
it also doesn't seem to affect games.
It takes a little while to get use to (day or two) but eventually when you come home from work at night and power on your computer or whatever you wont even notice that f.lux is running!
I think its probally better to use it on the natural day/night cycle and help reduce the strain you get at night.
I'm fairly confident that rumour arose around teenage boys squinting at magazines by torchlight under their blankets (pre interweb naturally)
I'll give this a crack - can't say I really suffer from eyestrain since I stopped using CRTs but that story of that poor woman who's retinas fell off from using a cintiq has been preying on my mind ever since I read it.
f.lux is the one with a GUI for windows. Seems nice.
Has anyone else experienced this, that got past it and found the software to be useable?
Exactly the same for me.
I tried it on my MacBook Pro (under OS X) last night and everything went super orange and made my eyes feel shocked. I tried it for 10 minutes or so but had to revert, and when I did, I got the relaxing feeling everyone is talking about!
Am I doing it wrong or are my eyes just weird?
Actually all f.lux does is play with your monitor calibration. You can get the same effect from switching to a custom monitor profile (both on win and os x), although f.lux makes the process much more user friendly
Yes, I get this too. Keeps going back and forth it seems.
Solution anyone?
I'll have to play with the settings in the Mac version.
Um... what?
You guys are artists for crying out loud, trust your eyes and calibrate your own monitors!
And if you need to tweak contrast, sharpness, etc, defo use this site: http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/
I've been noticing that my eyes have been getting more strained than usual.
I think my head just exploded.
Your eyes are not a good device to calibrate a monitor. Our brains are set up to adjust to a wide variety of lighting conditions - the result of that is we aren't nearly as accurate about color as we might think. Also, color inaccuracies on monitors can be much more complicated than a simple global color cast or gamma problem. Tools that rely on your eyes will often do more harm than good.
Additionally, a tool like this website can only even attempt to do really broad scale calibration. A monitor probe will accurately calibrate the monitor but more importantly it generates a color profile for your display. The profiling step is the much more important and color specific part of the process. What makes this even worse is that adjusting many displays on the OSD is a lossy operation. By changing the monitors contrast and brightness settings you are often times throwing away precision and creating banding/black crush problems.
I made this image up a while ago to illustrate why content should be produced on accurate displays even if the consumers aren't viewing it that way:
And on top of that most will have TN monitors, it sort of becomes pointless to fight for perfection when you can learn to work with imperfection.