

Instead this post is a collection of tips that should help you find the solution to your screen brightness problem. Therefore I do not pretend to provide the solution to your screen brightness problem. To avoid or reduce eye strain it is therefore essential to reduce screen brightness and text-background contrast.Īlthough glare is a common cause of eye strain, each person seems to react differently to glare exposure. However, high brightness contrast is the definition of glare which is a common cause of eye strain. White background normally covers most of your screen’s surface to contrast with black text. This post should help you solve your screen brightness and text-to-background eye strain problem principally by showing you how to change background color and text color in Windows 7 (affects Word, Excel, and other MS Office programs), Adobe Reader, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, … Windows 10 users see this post. Either way extended computer screen viewing will likely cause eye strain (eye fatigue or computer vision syndrome). (By default the option is already ticked).How to reduce screen brightness is important if you have light sensitive eyes (some level of photophobia), or if you use your computer in dimmer environment. You should first set your laptops brightness to a minimum before dimming it further. Tick the Use these hotkeys to control f.lux so that you can use hotkeys to manage screen brightness. It should work same on Mac and Linux (not sure though), but the dimmer screen feature is not present in Flux mobile apps for an obvious reason. Install F.lux software, right click on the icon in notification bar, select options (and smart lighting). How to decrease screen brightness beyond 0%. Did you know you can further reduce the brightness even if it’s already set to minimum? Here is how to make your screen dimmer.

But many times the minimum brightness even feels too much. You should not look at the sun at night, and you may have changed the brightness to 0% on your computer, which is a minimum brightness. Many people work on their computers in the daytime, and more people work on their computers at evening time or night, the laptop screen has been designed to work so well in the day (as the sun).
