Settings -display and brightness - and slide the way you want, or, better to use control center and add the brightness feature so to access from control center. Use and customize Control Center on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. With Control Center, you can quickly take a picture, turn on lights, control your Apple TV, and more. Back in February 2005, I covered a nifty utility, Brightness Control, that provides a simple slider for dimming your Macâs screen.Such a program was needed by some, I explained, because many. Fixing Laptop Screen Too Dark â MacOS. Mac does not appear to have this issue as often as Windows laptops do but if you do find that your Macbook screen is dim at full brightness, one solution is to reset the System Management Controller (SMC) which, among other things, controls the backlit display of your Macbook. Brightness adds a menu bar item to adjust the display's brightness. The developer's site also points out that if you have a Mac machine with a backlight keyboard such as PowerBook or MacBook Pro, this little app will add a second menu bar item to adjust the backlight.
One of the most obvious things that can show the strain of being at your computer for a period of time is your eyes. It doesnât take a lot for a badly configured monitor or laptop screen to cause problems and put extra strain on your eyes because brightness or contrast settings are set too high. Proper configuration can make viewing more comfortable, especially you are at your computer for prolonged periods of time.
Most monitors should have controls to adjust these types of settings but that isnât always the case. An old Dell Studio One 1909 desktop we have here, is one such system without external controls for brightness and contrast. Laptops and netbooks should have a dedicated Fn key combination or utility from the manufacturer for brightness. Windows sometimes has a brightness slider in the notification area or the system power plan.
If you donât have or cannot find brightness and contrast controls to adjust the display to your liking, an option is using a third party tool. Hereâs a selection of 10 free programs to adjust the brightness, contrast, gamma or color temperature settings of your computer screen.
1. ClickMonitorDDC
ClickMonitorDDC is probably the most powerful utility of its type and it adjusts the real settings of your monitor. By default, it shows sliders for brightness, contrast, saturation/vibrance, monitor audio volume, and device audio volume. This can be expanded to include red, green and blue sliders if your monitor has a User profile. If available, the User profile can be selected from the top drop down in the lower left corner.
Besides using the sliders, numbers or the mouse wheel in the user interface to adjust the settings, there are also icons in the system tray showing the current values. Hovering over any of the tray icons and scrolling will alter that specific value on the fly. There are also buttons to turn off all monitors, the current monitor, rotate the display, and reset the monitorâs settings back to factory default.
ClickMonitorDDC has a vast array of settings (tiny top-left button) to control a number of options. These include tray icons and colors, mouse wheel commands, hotkeys, add commands to the tray icon context menu, timers and limits, and autorun commands when a specific program is run. Most of these options require ClickMonitorDDCâs command line arguments to function so you will need to have a good read of the help guide. There is a portable or setup installer version.
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2. Win10 Brightness Slider
If you are looking for a simple slider to adjust screen brightness and require no extra functions or features, this is a useful option. Despite the name, Win10 Brightness Slider also works on Windows 7 (needs .NET Framework 4 or higher) and Windows 8.1, is open source and a standalone executable.
The program just sits as an icon in the tray notification area and left clicking on it will popup the brightness slider. A second or third slider will be available if you have a multiple monitor setup. DDC/CI is supported and thereâs a run on startup option in the iconâs context menu. Make sure to put the program in a permanent location before enabling run on start as the tool will be launched from its current location.
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3. Gamma Panel
Gamma Panel actually dates way back to 2002 but still seems to work fine in Windows 10. It should be good for users who want to change a bit more than just the standard brightness of their display. In addition to brightness, Gamma Panel can also adjust gamma and contrast with the added ability to allow each of the Red, Green and Blue colors to be tweaked individually or all together.
Another useful option is creating different profiles that can be activated with a pre-defined hotkey. You can, for example, set up a night profile or a reading profile and activate it when you feel the need by pressing the key combination or from the right click tray menu. You also get a little LUT (LookUp Table) graph with its associated value from the results of the changes.
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4. f.lux
Windows 10 has a built-in display temperature feature called Night Light. f.lux is a similar but more feature rich tool that can adjust the color and brightness of your screen depending on the time of day and light condition of the local environment. Your location can be entered during the first run of the program, this can be a city name, a zipcode or coordinates (if you know them).
While you can just leave the default settings and the program will work fine, there are a number of options for tailoring the colors and temperatures to your liking. There are several preset colors available at the top right drop down, a custom warmness slider, effects and extra colors in the settings menu and options for setting up f.lux with smart lighting such as Philips Hue.
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5. ScreenBright
ScreenBright is a free and portable tool that can adjust the brightness, contrast, color luminance and color temperature of your display. There is a slight drawback of the program needing a DDC/CI or USB-control compatible display to work, which not all monitors or laptop screens will have. Usage is simple and you adjust the sliders then click Save when youâre happy with the result.
In addition to brightness, contrast, and luminance, thereâs a vertical slider that affects green levels while the horizontal slider affects color temperature. There is no reset option in ScreenBright so make sure you note down the default settings before you start. ScreenBright also has support for command line arguments so you can use it in shortcuts, scripts or even set up a scheduled task.
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Md Abdullah3 weeks ago
desktop lighter was very helpful for me. Thank you for information.
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Is there another software just like Gammy? Reply
Gammy is great but its behaviour is undefined with multiple monitor setups. Iâd probably even pay for software just like Gammy for multiple monitor.
Fabio3 months ago
Hello Raymond CC,
I inform you that the soft called Eye Saver (2.43 version) isnât a freeware : after a few days it says to register for a longer usage. Best, Fabio
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thanks for these stuffs
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mandala5 months ago
Win10 Brightness Slider is not working for me. I am using win10 1909
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Can any of these programs be used to set brightness automatically at a certain time of the day? Say 50% bright from 8am-7pm and go down to 30% brightness from 7pm-8am?
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meavel7 months ago
Probably f.lux could help.
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1. ClickmonitorDDC can manage this kind of time schedule
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Crox7 months ago
Twinkle Tray does this: github.com/xanderfrangos/twinkle-tray.
You can change your brightness depending on the time of day. It even adjusts per-monitor if you want.
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very good software . I had been searching for this kind of software for about half a month It is very great. I am very greatful to the developers .
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aayush1 year ago
Thanks a lot, dude. I would make a sandwitch when you visit my place.
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thnx I wish there were alot more people like yourself ! Reply
if you where not here i would defently downloaded one (mayB 2 or 3) of the above givven list; I gues ill try the ClickMonitorDDC first :-)
AnjanaDhanvi1 year ago
Thanks for this post.I need more details for gamma panel?
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You see that âUse NVidia settingsâ option?
For some weird reason (after a Windows/Driver update, I donât know for sure), after restarting my PC it reverts back to default âother apps controlâ¦â setting, is pretty annoying.
I downloaded the 4#Gamma Panel, and created a basic task on Task Scheduler that auto-run this program when Windows boot.
It works perfectly! Thanks!
(I would still like to know if anyone has ever had a similar problem, though).
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Igor2 years ago
Please try the program to change the brightness of the entire video-system âMyMonic v1.1â very comfortable
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THANKES ClickMonitorDDC works perfectly
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Sudipta Biswas2 years ago
Thank You very much, ClickMonitorDDC works amazing for me.
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Desktop Lighter worked for me also after the windows 10 update killed my brightness.control
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win10user2 years ago
Desktop Lighter works for me after the Windows 10 1803 update killed the brightness control.
Battery endurance is still an issue, however I can at least work in the evening using the dimmer.
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Thank you sir.ClickMonitorDDC works !
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Alex2 years ago
Thank you!!
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Amazing! Installed ClickMonitor after reading your post. Quite simple and straightforward.
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D'Shon Matthews3 years ago
Youâre a genius. I have been trying to get my monitor to where I could see the text on the screen for days. Your information solved my problem.
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Thank you very much for the info and links. It saved my eyes from straining due to monitorâs brightness.
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Akshay3 years ago
tHanks bro Desktop Lighter is superb
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gamma panel works for me , thanks bro 10-/9/2016
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Abdul Sami4 years ago
thanks mike you saved my time :)
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Does anyone know of a Windows program that can change the black level / brightness of a particular display in an extremely fine-grained way? For example, by inputting a decimal/floating point scaling factor? These slider bars do not give me the resolution I need for my particular application.
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alervd4 years ago
You may try Free Monitor Manager. But youâll have to adjust the settings in its data files manually. Itâs easy, btw.
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Gamma Panel âContrastâ adjustment did not do much for me, however lowering the Gamma setting worked great! Iâm using Win 10 on an Asus Laptop.
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Alexander5 years ago
One yet utility similar to ScreenBright: Free Monitor Manager. Reply
It supports multi-monitor configurations and allows to change monitor settings using global hotkeys. freemonitormanager.com
I tried a bunch of these and found that only iBrightnessTray works on my Thinkpad W520. Itâs great to have that when the built-in hotkeys for screen brightness control stop working.
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davidkos6 years ago
How can you put f.lux in 6th position? It wipes its ass with all screen dimming softwares Iâve used. The Desktop lighter was pissing me off the most.
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This isnât a âtop 10â.
anduert6 years ago
I found a tool similiar to screenbright, but more easy to use: Reply
ClickMonitorDDC is a portable freeware tool to adjust brightness or contrast of a DDC compatible monitor by simply clicking a dynamic notification icon in the taskbar tray area, also supports shortcut icon command-line arguments clickmonitorddc.bplaced.net/
Excellent topic. Iâve been searching for something like this for a while.
But no-one seems to have observed that there are two very different ways of achieving this. Most of the above work by lowering the image brightness. What is needed if you want to save power and maximise the life of your backlight is to lower the backlight power. So far, the only free one I have found that does this is iBrightness Tray. Working that way also gives a much better brightness range.
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AT6 years ago
Thanks Ray, GammaPanel works in my laptop. You are a star. May God Bless You
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Gama panel does not work with windows 7. Once you reboot your pc, all settings an hotkeys are lost and it reverts to default â rather useless.
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HAL9000 Author7 years ago
Not sure what your problem is but Game Panel is working perfectly fine on Win 7 64-bit. Saves the profiles and hotkeys OK and they can be selected without issue on reboot. When itâs launched Game Panel reverts to the profile you used last time.
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excellent idea, thnak you very much
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jean7 years ago
the screen of my laptop is too bright inside, even with all the settings put to the minimum. Reply
I´m using F.lux on my desktop but it´s not possible to modify brightnes with it. For me RedShift seems to be the best because in one software I have F.lux functionality and brightness control.
For me FriendEye work best, not change the colors Reply
Thank you!
learner7 years ago
Thank you ray, I had to change brightness and contrast every day and night, by pressing these monitor buttons according to background light, These tools are very good and more than my expectationâ¦
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this is so awesome! my laptop wouldnât dim the brightness enough.and the lowest setting was always brighter than I always wanted it to be.Thanks very much Raymond! God bless! :-)
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Jonny11 years ago
Thanks posting Raymond
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thanks for the great info ray :D
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Alex11 years ago
Thanks Raymond for the very useful tool, on my BENQ it works perfect!!!
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thanks for the desktop lighter!
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