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i tried this, since so many of you reported interesting results. it didn't do much for me. a common theme seems to be: "it looked weird at first, but then i w

i tried this, since so many of you reported interesting results. it didn't do much for me. a common theme seems to be: "it looked weird at first, but then i went back to my default settings, which looks blinding." might i suggest that the real problem is you've simply got the brightness on your monitor turned up too high? yeah, it looks cool at first. you get a new monitor, play with the settings, and you decide it looks most striking on full blast. i've long thought that's a recipe for eyestrain. i've got an apple 23-inch cinema display. i keep its brightness set on the lowest possible setting. if there were two or three lower settings, i'd try those.

thaumaturgy 18y ago
It's not just the brightness though. (I'm using a Powerbook G4.) F.Lux appears to change the tint and other color factors depending on lighting and the brightness outside. Yes, I probably could get the same effect from diddling with the display settings, but this way I click a single button and it sets everything up for me. And, to my eyes at least, it did make a remarkable difference. I went from the constantly nagging-at-me desire to rub my eyes to an instant feeling of, "Hey, that looks nice. Ahhhhh." The one catch is, I wonder how this is going to affect graphics work. Does it mean that I'm gonna get colors all wrong when working on graphics at night? 'Course ... I'm all kinds of color-blind anyway, so maybe this'll actually help!
- jonah 18y ago
  It will definitely get your colors weird, but it has a one hour disable button for when you need calibrated color. How well is your monitor actually calibrated in the first place? ;)
  - thaumaturgy 18y ago
    It isn't in the least! There'd be no point to it. I am one of the people for whom most of the pictures at http://critiquewall.com/2007/12/10/blindness http://critiquewall.com/2007/12/10/blindness look identical. In addition to red/green colorblindness, I have similar problems with purple/violet/blue/etc. See also "Deuteranopia". For this reason, when tasked with doing an actual website design, I tend to make heavy use of pastels and "muted" colors. I'm looking forward to finding a graphics person I can trust to do layouts.

thaumaturgy 18y ago

It's not just the brightness though. (I'm using a Powerbook G4.) F.Lux appears to change the tint and other color factors depending on lighting and the brightness outside. Yes, I probably could get the same effect from diddling with the display settings, but this way I click a single button and it sets everything up for me. And, to my eyes at least, it did make a remarkable difference. I went from the constantly nagging-at-me desire to rub my eyes to an instant feeling of, "Hey, that looks nice. Ahhhhh." The one catch is, I wonder how this is going to affect graphics work. Does it mean that I'm gonna get colors all wrong when working on graphics at night? 'Course ... I'm all kinds of color-blind anyway, so maybe this'll actually help!

jonah 18y ago
It will definitely get your colors weird, but it has a one hour disable button for when you need calibrated color. How well is your monitor actually calibrated in the first place? ;)
- thaumaturgy 18y ago
  It isn't in the least! There'd be no point to it. I am one of the people for whom most of the pictures at http://critiquewall.com/2007/12/10/blindness http://critiquewall.com/2007/12/10/blindness look identical. In addition to red/green colorblindness, I have similar problems with purple/violet/blue/etc. See also "Deuteranopia". For this reason, when tasked with doing an actual website design, I tend to make heavy use of pastels and "muted" colors. I'm looking forward to finding a graphics person I can trust to do layouts.