LOWER BRIGHTNESS EVEN MORE PORTABLE

Remember, 0 is maximum brightness while the minimum is 90. The box below the slider indicates the brightness level of the slider. You'd expect it to be the other way around, and quite frankly, I would have preferred a horizontal slider to this. Drag it upwards to reduce the brightness, or drag it down to increase the brightness. Speaking of which, the slider is a bit odd. Every screen has a number assigned to it, and has its own slider. The 'screens' tab displays each monitor (including the laptop screen), connected to the computer. It also opens a small window that has 4 tabs. Run it and it places an icon on the system tray.

LOWER BRIGHTNESS EVEN MORE PORTABLE

The portable software's executable is about 90KB. If your screen's brightness had really been modified, a screenshot will not show such a difference. Take a screenshot while running Dimmer, it will include the 'dull look' of the overlay. Programs like F.lux or Lightbulb do the same. But it does help reduce eye strain, which is sort of the point anyway. Imagine how your monitor would look like if you're wearing sunglasses, it's like that.

Dimmer is a freeware tool that solves this problem in a subtle way.ĭimmer does not reduce the actual brightness of the screen, instead it adds a virtual overlay on top of it. Trying to do something as simple as adjusting the monitor's brightness shouldn't require you to fiddle with a clunky menu.

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