Do you use Windows 10 Night Light?

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Blue Light Reduction Mode....

At first I tired with while upgraded with the Creators update and a 1080ti card the same week. I had very mixed results my eyes were killing me at work while not being at home. I think the Nvidia drivers had to mature for a few driver sets now Night Light setting feels pretty good with some adjustments. I never liked Flux the reason being it would reset your Monitor profile to default and it would take away whatever Nvidia presets you had on the desktop settings or AMD if you have that.
Otherwise I think the Night Light setting improves your eyeball focus outside of your monitor life instead of being in a Dead lock stare at the mercy of a lcd screen.


 
I've started using it when I remember to turn it on. I think it works great for reading those pdfs late at night. It's nice this is now built into the OS.
 
I have it set from sundown to sunrise. It's slightly janky, like I've noticed on my gaming rig it doesn't affect the pointer, so the pointer is this bright white entity on a yellowed-out field.
 
I use it for late-night internet browsing. Been using Red Shift on Ubuntu long before this, though.

Night Light is definitely buggy though, it won't turn on until I click on the temperature bar after I enable night light.
 
SuperSubZero said:
I have it set from sundown to sunrise. It's slightly janky, like I've noticed on my gaming rig it doesn't affect the pointer, so the pointer is this bright white entity on a yellowed-out field.
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That's a plus in my case. I tend to run my monitors on lower brightness (to avoid eyestrain/headaches at night) and with the f.lux making things somewhat darker I ended up sometimes spending a few extra seconds trying to locate which screen the mouse pointer is at. Just a preference. I wouldn't mind making the pointer even more bright.
 
I hate this program now the spectrum it emits just doesn't bode well with me.
 
I do use it, though I wish it had more options like the macOS version of f.lux.

I prefer being able to set Daytime/Sunset/Bedtime color temperatures instead of only sunset.

Unfortunately f.lux on Windows hurts game and video playback performance, so I've had to avoid it.

Night Light doesn't seem to have that problem.

SuperSubZero said:
I have it set from sundown to sunrise. It's slightly janky, like I've noticed on my gaming rig it doesn't affect the pointer, so the pointer is this bright white entity on a yellowed-out field.
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You can hit [WIN] + [=] to enable the Windows Magnifier at 100% size and it will change the way the cursor is rendered so that doesn't happen.

May make the cursor disappear entirely in some games though.
 
to be honest I was curious but haven't touched it because I do photography and editing. Was wondering if it would affect my color in anyway and didn't wanna mess with it. Anyone have any idea if it does?
 
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to be honest I was curious but haven't touched it because I do photography and editing. Was wondering if it would affect my color in anyway and didn't wanna mess with it. Anyone have any idea if it does?
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it will affect the color. If you forget to turn off Nightshift and start editing, your images will be extremely blue tinted.

Image on the right is the original, the one on the left was edited with Nightshift on to look like the original.
You can see that it now has a very blueish tint to it.
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I don't like it, I consciously notice the color shift too much and it bugs me. Some of my coworkers have it set on their iPhones and every time I see their ugly yellow tinted screens I shudder.
 
I like it. My eyes are sensitive and by the time it switches on I'm usually 12 hours into a computing session. I mainly write code or play games (plus TN monitor) so it's not like accurate colors really matter to me.
 
I never use these kinds of programs but I always calibrate my monitors to be on the warmer side of things as I prefer warmer tones over cold, just more pleasant for me (psychological feel). I'm guessing I'm roughly 6400~6420K typically so the whites would get quite yellowish if I enabled it. I prefer a constant setting over a varying one, so the ideal constant color temp for my personal taste.
 
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You get used to the yellow screen tint after a few minutes. Turning off the nightlight after reading text for awhile is pretty jarring.
 
I started using the program again helps be sleep and was suffering from really bad eyestrain at work.
The thing is if you use the program and go to a brightly lit area it kinda sucks because you get a rebound effect.
Otherwise I think they improved the program since I last tried it.
 
I use it for night reading on my samsung w10 tablet (oled display). It causes a big shift away from blue - the opposite of what someone stated above.
I haven’t had a chance to measure it but my guess is it sets the white point to 4000K - i.e. very warm. Not suitable for color work or even regular all day use, but good for its intended use of low blue light at night.
 
HeavensCloud said:
I don't like it, I consciously notice the color shift too much and it bugs me. Some of my coworkers have it set on their iPhones and every time I see their ugly yellow tinted screens I shudder.
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Or maybe you are just used to a far more blue screen that you think is more accurate. I think Night Light works pretty well as does Apple's True Tone.
 
It's a loaded question, assuming the use of Windows 10.

Any way, none of these color changing applications are nearly as effective as monitors that aren't too blue and bright in the first place, which is what W-LED gives us.
 
I use 6500K day and night just like our beloved ☼ does!

f. U night mode
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I actually use night light most of the day, if not all. If I'm working in Word with white backgrounds - most of the time - then I just leave it on all day. It seems to be the only way for me to not get eye strain these days.
 
partikl said:
It's a loaded question, assuming the use of Windows 10.

Any way, none of these color changing applications are nearly as effective as monitors that aren't too blue and bright in the first place, which is what W-LED gives us.
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OLED is a couple months away, gotta use something until then.
 
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