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    • Tungsten_smoothT
      Tungsten_smooth @shmu26
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      @shmu26 It's VERY similar to the greenish tint that is used by my Ben Q "Blue light filter" option--and I'd say it's indistinguishable, it's that close--and it undoes all my custom color settings of my monitor, just to be clear.

      It's taking down the high blue spike in most (if not absolutely all ever created) LED lit devices, like shown here on the fluxometer:

      • iPad Pro

      • Nexus 7

      • Kindle Paperwhite LED front light

      • Kindle Fire

      There are countless other devices, and probably 10-15 others on the fluxometer site alone that is run by the flux team. For reference, here is the output of a blue sky:

      https://fluxometer.com/rainbow/#!id=Outdoors/2PM LA sky

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        shmu26
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        Thanks for explanation.
        I tried it, and I like it, but I was wondering what was going on under the hood. That helps.

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          pureby
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          It looks very similar to 5500 K ("Sunlight") filter on my monitor. Would love to hear from the developer what exactly this filter does.

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          • scoentaS
            scoenta
            last edited by scoenta

            I wonder if an "outdoors mode" would be available soon as well. :|

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            • TwoCablesT
              TwoCables @scoenta
              last edited by TwoCables

              @scoenta said in Color effects/Reduce Eyestrain:

              I wonder if an "outdoors mode" would be available soon as well. :|

              What would it do? If you are talking about when a display is hard to see due to how bright it can be outside, that's a problem that can only be solved by a display that has a much brighter backlight (but I doubt any kind of a display would be bright enough outside, except for special monitors that can get extremely bright). F.lux can't help with that.

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                pureby @scoenta
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                @scoenta said in Color effects/Reduce Eyestrain:

                I wonder if an "outdoors mode" would be available soon as well. :|

                Like @TwoCables asked, I am wondering what you mean by that.
                f.lux v4 supports increasing the color temperature above 6500 K as well, which results in a bluish-sort of display. I suppose that can be handy for certain outside light conditions...

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                • scoentaS
                  scoenta @pureby
                  last edited by scoenta

                  @TwoCables @pureby

                  Before F.lux, I tested Sunset-Screen 1.26 for a long while, and it has three options for outdoor mode, with "partly cloudy sky", "cloudy sky" and "deep blue clear sky". :/
                  However F.lux is more complete for my needs, so I prefer to use F.lux for now. :)

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                    pureby @scoenta
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                    @scoenta Yes, f.lux v4 can do this as well. It goes up to 9300K and besides that you have several color filters to choose from. I have no idea how 20.000 K looks but I can only imagine it's an outright blue filter, which f.lux offers as well.

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                    • scoentaS
                      scoenta @pureby
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                      @pureby

                      Oh thank you! By the way, this is the Youtube video about F.lux that makes me to use it. :)
                      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xj7XDT6UNk

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                      • TwoCablesT
                        TwoCables
                        last edited by TwoCables

                        But those settings are to simulate the colors. They are not saying, "This is for use outside on a cloudy day". Y'know? It's saying, "This is to simulate the color you see outside on a cloudy day" (or whatever the preset's name may be that you like). There's no need to use f.lux when you're using a computer or tablet or other compatible mobile device outside.

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                        • TwoCablesT
                          TwoCables
                          last edited by TwoCables

                          F.lux v4 has a range of 800K to 100,000K. Use Alt+Shit+Page Down and Up.

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                          • scoentaS
                            scoenta @TwoCables
                            last edited by scoenta

                            @TwoCables

                            Thank you too for your good explanation! :)
                            Edit (1): SunsetScreen has a range of 500K to 9,854,736K (that means pure red and pure blue with no inverted colours at all).
                            Edit (2): anyway, a range of 800K to 100,000K should be enough for average required tasks or average computer environment.

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                              lucy817
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                              Thank you :rosette: :rosette: :rosette:

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                                TwoCables
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                                  • scoentaS
                                    scoenta @TwoCables
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                                    @TwoCables

                                    Thank you for the advice! :)

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                                    • Tungsten_smoothT
                                      Tungsten_smooth @TwoCables
                                      last edited by Tungsten_smooth

                                      @TwoCables said in Color effects/Reduce Eyestrain:

                                      F.lux v4 has a range of 800K to 100,000K. Use Alt+Shit+Page Down and Up.

                                      Whoa, I knew about the shortcut, and going down more orange, but hadn't considered how blue I could go! Thanks for that, I'm now at 50,000K very nice tint.

                                      @f-lux-team Bug or limitation, I have two GPUs (one low power and another higher speed) with each a monitor connected. When I use the shortcut, it doesn't seem to be affecting the other GPU or the other monitor, however you'd like to think about it. Is this a difficult configuration to work with? I understand the program changes the color tables for A GPU, but what about more than one?

                                      I'm completely mistaken, it is pushed to both monitors, whoops. The blue is just not very pronounced as I thought it would be, maybe I'll kick up the saturation.

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