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6 Tips on How to Lower Your Monitor and TV Brightness For Better Eye Health
Most of the time, we pay little mind to our eye health. We assume that everything is fine because we regularly see an eye doctor, but that’s not always enough for your eyes. You should be aware of the pre-existing conditions and take steps to prevent or reduce their impact on your vision. Tired eyes can have a significant impact on everyday life, from finding you struggling in the kitchen to watching TV with squinting fatigue. The truth is, if you are not aware of the risks, it is difficult to improve your eye health. So we want to make our vision a little bit better by providing a few tips on how to lower their brightness.
1. Turn Down Your Monitor Brightness:
The first step to improve your eye health is to lower the monitor brightness. Make sure that you do not adjust the screen brightness to a level beyond the maximum setting available on your computer or laptop. Also, you might want to turn the screen off when it’s not in use and make sure that you take regular breaks from the screen as well. For example, if you are on social media, make sure that you take an hour off every hour and focus your eyes on something else.
2. Avoid Looking at the Television Screen with Squinting Eyes:
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More detailed information on each tip can be found in the full article. TIP #1: Turn brightness down on your monitor and TV To lower the brightness on your monitor and TV, use the [F11] key. This feature allows you to see all of your content at the same brightness level. You can also adjust color temperature in the [F10] or [F2] keys by adjusting either a warmer or cooler setting. TIP #2: Increase duration of computer and smart phone screen A blue light often comes from your computer, smart phone, laptop or television. This can cause eye fatigue, headaches and eyestrain. Some people believe the blue light is beneficial, but the long-term effects can be negative. If you want to limit your exposure to blue light, follow these guidelines: Reduce screen brightness on computer and smart phone screens
Introduction: Approach to Improving Eye Health with Dimmed Lights
Our technology has become so sophisticated these days. It’s very easy to be blinded by bright lights at night on our TV, laptop, and computer screens as well as from bright indoor lighting during the day. Although we have designed our rooms with light that is supposed to be comfortable and inviting, when we look at it for too long, we may begin to suffer from eye strain. Many of us do not know how to take proper steps in order to increase the healthy longevity of our eyesight. We don’t realize that when we look at the lights at night, this may be a contributing factor that is causing eye strain. Have you noticed your eyes feeling tired lately? If you haven’t, you may want to consider taking steps to reduce eye strain and fatigue. Here are some tips on how to improve your overall eye health:
1. Reduce or avoid indoor lighting that is too bright.
2. Dim indoor lighting by installing LED lighting or by using incandescent light bulbs, wedges, shades, or blocking indoor light with curtains or blinds.
3. Screen out the sun when outdoors by wearing sunglasses and dark clothing to help prevent glare from indoor fixtures and windows reflecting off of snow and buildings at night that can contribute to eye strain and fatigue when indoors.
4. If you have to sit close to a computer, adjust the brightness and contrast levels on the monitor so they are not too bright. Also, make sure that your computer monitor is at least 20 inches away from your eyes.
5. If you work in a brightly-lit office building with big windows, wear dark sunglasses indoors as well as outdoors when it is sunny outside or even cloudy to help filter out excess natural light that can contribute to eye strain and fatigue.
1. Adjust the Brightness Settings on Your TV or Monitor
This is the most common blunder that many of us make. Most of us have a TV or monitor that is made to show bright and clear images, but this can actually be hurting your eyes. It can irritate your eyes and cause photosensitivity. If you set the brightness too high, you may start to notice blurry spots in front of your eyes. This will make it difficult for you to concentrate on work or watching videos on an iPad, tablet or laptop in bed at night. As a result of this, you may be spending more money on sunglasses. The reason, your eyes have to adjust to the dark. If you don’t allow them to do this, you may end up with photosensitivity.
In order to avoid this problem, all you have to do is reduce the brightness of your screen. This will help adjust your eyes and make it easier for you to focus on your screen or television set at night. After adjusting the brightness of a television either at home or in an office, your eyes will be fine in the dark without any problem. If you are still having some problem at night, you can always increase the brightness for a few minutes and then decrease it again.
Before adjusting the brightness of your TV or monitor, make sure that there is enough light around you. You will want to reduce the brightness of your TV when light is dim at night. This can be difficult or inconvenient as many of us do not like to go outside in order to adjust the brightness of our TV when we are home alone.
You can fix this problem by lowering the brightness of your TV or monitor when you are watching a movie or video that has hooked you. Once the movie is over, you can simply increase the brightness back to normal. The dark scenes in movies are made to be dark, so it will not hurt your eyes.
2. Adjust the Screen Refresh Rate of Your Television
This is another common blunder that we make. We often don’t realize how much time we spend in front of the TV or monitor. You may be sitting for hours at a time and don’t even realize it. This can cause your eyes to become tired, irritated as well as cause eye strain. If you notice that you’re starting to feel pain in your eyes, it may be due to the fact that you have spent too much time in front of a screen.
If you’ve just bought a new TV or monitor and it seems to have a slower refresh rate, don’t worry. You can adjust this on some breeds of televisions as well as monitors.
How do I know if this is the problem?
First, you would want to determine whether the refresh rate is too slow or too fast. This can be done with the help of a tool called a divider. A divider is simply an electronic signal that divides the screen in your TV or monitor into two halves. A horizontal line is shown on both halves and this helps you determine whether the refresh rate of your TV or monitor is slow or fast.
