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Sunny Jane Posted on Oct 20, 2013

Are there computer programs for calibrating your computer screen colors?

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There are various programs from free and included in Windows XP on up to Windows 8. For Mac's, there are even more software products available. There are also various hardware calibration options but these tendtobe very expensive.

If you are using Windows, I might suggest a free program called f.lux. It recently went through a MAJOR upgrade. I first heard about it on Lifehacker before it was upgraded and absolutely hated it but the new and improved version is AWESOME!

Basically it adjusts your monitors to the current ambient light according to the time of day and your location. The First few days, I had to adjust it to my liking until my eyes adjusted but what I have now is a constant, natural looking screen and it would be difficult to tell the difference in a magazine versus looking at my old Gateway LCD.

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