Does F.lux (FLUX) Really Work? Blue Light Filter test W/ Ghetto Science Applied.
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- A lot of my viewers asked me about f.lux and do I use it? Well the answer is I am going to be using it on all my computers from now on as it is simply an amazing program and does indeed WORK (and work well at that). This is also kind of a precursor to an upcoming video I will be releasing about blue light glasses and filters and do they work as well - you can probably see that the $10 hardware store pc glasses are working more than well in this video.
If you have any questions make sure to drop a comment.
Also here is a link to this amazing FREE program - justgetflux.com/
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This does indeed work, my eye was like "pls pls give me mercy on me" and then I turn on flux and then my eyes are like "thank you so much"
but how do i turn this on in games?
Doesn't work in full screen but if you use the "bordeles window" mode it does work and you stil get the full screen experience
This comment is funny as hell. lol. X)
HAHA IKR
same shit man
Thank you for this video, I was very skeptical about F.lux, I was scared it would lower my screen brightness too much, however it doesn't seem to lower the brightness, really just changes the "heat", it's crazy how much better you sleep after using flux, also went and changed my light bulb at home after using flux for a couple days to a warmer lighting.
Also, you deserve many more viewers, the quality of your video and content is mind blowing, I really hope you get noticed more!
Snow Farrun Thanks my friend, exposure is something I am not too concerned about, just helping and communicating with the awesome folk that are already here is my main priority.
Loving the ghetto science test with the glasses. Great video, keep up the great work man!
Dans Tech Thanks man, these questions must be answered!
Dans Tech lol
Ghetto? More like a beach bum Australian version haha jk but yeah I don't think this has proven anything but I guess it did seem to have less blue light
"The only difference between science and messing around is writing it down."
- Adam Savage
Good job Tech YES City!
Keeping it short and informative, sadly very rare, but very appreciated! It's all an informative video should be. Not a +10 minute long video with tonnes of offroad speculations and unnecessary rambling.
Been using f.lux for over a year now and it's awesome. Especially at night, it's amazing.
+Diavolo222 There's an app that does the similar job in the play store, it also reminds you to take short periodic breaks after you stare at your mobile phone for long. Here's the link if you want to try the app: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nep.haveabreak
This is the amount of detail and length that needs to go into any science video.
I use as well a piece of an orange acrylic in front of my pc screen and it works very well
cesar neto lol wasnt free software ghetto enough?
I did that because f.lux , i dont know why , was not working anymore.
here is it.
drive.google.com/file/d/0B2kHjvwCIDPdNXAwT2o5UTZ0YVE/view?usp=sharing
cesar neto Well.. Looks like you hit a trollerino jackpot. :D They actually fell for it.
Edit: Clean that keyboard right now!
Jere Saukko actually it is not dirty as it looks. It is because of my poor camera at night.
cesar neto Oh never mind the dirt was on my screen breh! Just cleaned it off with some toilet paper and paint thinner. Sorry about that.
cool love it, now my eyes are not burning out of my head
That's a plus
If your monitor has RGB color controls in the OSD, you can get very similar results by just decreasing the B value. I have R and G both at 100 and B at 90. This gives a nice reduction of blue light.
thats cool, ive never even heard of that befor :) thanks for the video
+SuperDan 1989 There's an app that does the similar job in the play store, it also reminds you to take short periodic breaks after you stare at your mobile phone for long. Here's the link if you want to try the app: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nep.haveabreak
im using my 24 inch 1080P razer E series LED vizio smart tv as my monitor as my computer screen
is it the same thing as LED monitors or is it different since mine has a tanish color to the whites and the blues are like a light blue (depending on the shade produce at the time)
I use it and it works very well. Instead of playing with my triple monitor's brightness all the time, F.lux does that job for me, as well as change the colors to something more subtle on the eyes during the night.
+DjGalm There's an app that does the similar job in the play store, it also reminds you to take short periodic breaks after you stare at your mobile phone for long. Here's the link if you want to try the app: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nep.haveabreak
Thanks!
I see the white too bright and the colors too black can anyone help me? I don't use glasses and my vision is great, I just have this problem, when I am watching a video I have to increase the brightness, contrast, and gamma, but when I am browsing on google chrome its a pain in my eyes that I can't describe, I have to lower it all the way down or I have to get away from that quick because my eyes start to feel discomfort and I have to blink hard and keep my eyes shut for a few seconds. too bright!!
Interesting, thx for the video. I'm using flux on my iPad for over a year glad to hear it works, I definitely like this warmer white just like incandescent bulb lights rather then fluo, fluocompact and stuff. BTW what if you change colors of your monitor yourself and make it that warm color? Just like you can do it with color presets that almost any modern monitor offers? For example "warm" preset...I mean basically that's what flux does for you right?
Interesting idea to use software to reduce blue lighting, although i'm not too sure if i was to loose out on the sRGB i have right now with my IPS, it really make colors pop you know. did you notice any excessive color changes after installing this software?
Naouta Yes, f.lux basically destroys colors, however you can turn it off on the fly so any color work or anything isn't effected.
I'm using F.Lux over a year now and I'm happy. Since I use it, I definitely sleep better.
It works like a charm, I don't know about you guys but it works very good for me
This may be a dumb question as I do not know anything about this, but how is yellow light safer than what is set currently? I'm just confused on that. Thanks in advance! Getting this for sure
Thank you for the video. Also, does anyone know any programme which can make my screen like Kindle? Or f.lux will do it?
I've been using this for some years now. It's made my life a lot easier as someone on the Autism spectrum, with hypersensitivity to light in general.
Oh, so you're on The Spectrum, huh? Understandable..
Does f.lux cause any damage to a computer? Like in the screen, or hardware?
So, is it like Night Shift?
(Because I use that a lot, so I'd be used to this.)
Thanks.
been using flux for over a year now lol pretty much forget about it even being on
Is there something like this for iPads
what If I reduce blues brightness in the intel hd graphics control panel
Yep been using it like for 6 months it's great and also there is Gunnar optics which is an option that get recommend a lot.
yeah turn off Flux for games and i use gunnar's
Do you recommend watching movies or working during the night? What if I need to write an essay or watch a movie? Would you recommend me to do these things during the day?
I am unsure, is it the brightness that made the blue less noticeable that was my first thought. I am sure there is more to it right? if the brightness was the same does the blue still shine through?
David Young The panel/pixels are doing the work for us! i.e. not letting as much blue light through as before.
does flux makes your eyes weaker or something like that? because I used flux for 3 years or more and my almost perfect vision went down, now I have to use glasses I'm not blaming flux but the color and the dimm maybe made my eyes weaker or something because I can't see clearly without putting something more darker and my eyes hurts a little and are a lot incomfortable with the light that everybody uses, like in a movie at night the screen for me was like the sun but for the rest of my family it was normal.
I guess we just get used to it. Try gradually reset back to normal screen light and I guess you can adapt again
Same to me
Great, thx!
Very nice! :D
I appreciate the testing. Interesting results.
So, I was wondering, do you live in a ghetto or grow up in one? You seem to refer to them a bit. The constant reference to ghettos is a little surprising, no matter which context you're using (either a neighborhood filled with people of a similar ethnic background, or the later meaning of a poor, socially downtrodden neighborhood.) You can say whatever you want and use whatever terms you want to mean "unplanned and improvised", of course, but just thought I'd let you know the word actually means something to some people.
Sincerely,
someone raised in a ghetto.
No wasn't raised in an actual ghetto, in tech it just means hack and slash / super unorthodox way of doing something.
Been using f.lux for about 2 years now and I can say it works, but it works best with a calibrated screen where the blue light emitted isn't way over exposed.
I'm also using flux with blue light glasses haha
Have you done one about high pitch mic noises >~
I wear gunnar glasses to work to pull the ladies ;)
KOOLBOI2006 Damn, and all this time i thought i looked silly wearing my Gunners, I only wore them at home, im gonna go get me some chicks :)
So how does this help? I don't understand what the program is used for.
Blue light hinders sleep by tricking your brain into thinking it's the sky
My gamer life has changed , I CAN'T BELIVE THIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!
it works, really with noticeable reduction in eye stress
Could I get this on iOS without any crazy jailbreak crap? I use my phone every night to watch videos (such as this).
+Jordan Johnson (Mighty Burger) Apple just released it on iphone
rrevolver1
good news :)
f.lux is super good especially when you are like me and you work at night since i travel to like +9 hour difference country's
+Eping | Gaming & More There's an app that does the similar job in the play store, it also reminds you to take short periodic breaks after you stare at your mobile phone for long. Here's the link if you want to try the app: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nep.haveabreak
nice vid !!!
it does work, you can play the whole night and go sleep easily before you were laying in bed for around 15-30 minutes to find sleep, i recommend everyone to use this programm, at the beginning you will think holy moly this is orange but after 1 week you will get used to it and it will not reduce any gaming peformance, make sure you set it on "Safe Mode" so you will not lose fps at all.
Good job. Thanks for not talking too much...
yea it works cuz am using television as monitor and without flux my eyes are so painful and red like am high but with flux everything is good :D
Ghetto test rofl, I'm trying it now.. the difference is almost too much lol, youtube looks so weird, am I suppose to shut it down during games or ?..Gonna try it with movies and games see if it changes much. curious about the glasses against lightning also.. does it changes color ?:S and I heard of some lights that can be put behind your screen as ambiant light (better than other lights) sounded good.
Thomas Syxe You can change the lowest temp point to over 4000k so it doesn't go too orange lol. Flux is really good in that regard.
Tech YES City Nice will try, what are your settings ? I'm watching a movie with it on now and it's not even noticeable, perhaps in a scene with alot of white I guess..but that's a bit rare lol, I'll try to keep it like that
I use 4200k as the lowest. 3400 is a bit too much lol for me.
Do gamma rays work I want to get a pair for 25$ cheaper than gunners tell me what you think
Or do any of guy know where to get low cost one
I ran pure red around the 800K mark for about 3 hours while working because my sleeping pattern was totally f**ked, lo and behold, it worked and I got to sleep
How about gunnars? do you think they work better or worse?
Thomas Luk Haven't tried a pair, they are too expensive where I am. I sent Gunnars an e-mail about a review sample but I am yet to hear back from them.
Thomas Luk I have them and use them. I've tried Flux too before that didn't really help everything looked like awful + I'm a programming course student and I can't install flux on every single machine that I work with everyday, so yeah the only option left were the gunnar glasses. and the difference was insane I can't even look at the monitor with out wearing them my eyes just feel exposed. But I'd suggest trying Flux first and if you dislike it or like me haven't got the option to use it all the time. In my personal experience Gunnars helped way more, but again it really deepens on one's eyes and how sensitive they are some people feel no benefit what so ever. Just keep that in mind before buying anything.
Tech YES City To bad they cost so much, i have a pair of Gunners and i gotta tell ya, anytime i am in front of the computer screen for more than ten min i put them on, i am in front of a screen for over 8 hours at a time doing Autocad some days, my eyes would burn, feel dry, with the Gunners its not a issue, takes a bit of time to get used to the color difference, but my eye strain is gone.
Yeah that is how I feel at the moment with my $10 hardware glasses, they work very well :P.
Watching this with F.lux
omg on every search i did on google Tech yes City comes up always yohooooooooo :D :D
Dr Berg recommended this, so thanks for the review.
If you do graphics this may not be a feasible choice as image color will not look accurate
when your monitor advertises its a LED one
noscope glasses works too :3 and i look like a nerd : c
Using flux on my jailbroken iPad now!
nice man
I've used flux for a few years it's great.
makes sense cause the glasses bounce off blue light onto the paper.
That warm saturation with Flux on,not keen on that. Won't mind some gaming glasses tbh,may do some digging
Dinxsy eyes quickly adapt to flux. eventually you love it in both off and on mode
JJ JAY I suppose when viewing numerous web pages that are white/blue emitting in color could help.If it was adaptive be cool.
I guess you need to edit your logo in the opening, it has a big blue Yes.
my problem would be video editing accurate colour
Good video
Great video. There is also alternative to f.lux called Iris (iristech.co)
I would strongly recommend you a worthy alternative of f.lux - it's called Eye Saver - www.eye-saver.net
It has blue light filter plus more - it eliminates screen flickering and has break reminder. It is also free, very tiny and easy to use.
does wearing sunglasses also help?
Can do
Well I can still see the colour blue on my Windows 10 computer on a 27" LG LCD monitor while using F.lux on 1200k. So that means that it does not work. It does not filter all the blue light out because you cannot filter blue light out and still see the colour blue.
+Keith D how do you put it on 1200k?
+Keith D That's because it's not supposed to block out all blue colors...
Lol your monitor should be calibrated to 6500K, not 1200K
I think Eye Pro is better,it is very easy to use, as it can perform the necessary
adjustments automatically, based on the time of day. Late at night, the application increases the strength of the filter, and the change is gradual enough not to be noticeable. Download Eye Pro here (www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Other-Desktop-Enhancements/EyePro-Eye-Pro-Co-Ltd.shtml )
F.lux has one flaw: it affects the gamma in games in a weird way, I need to disable it for that reason in games :/
CapnTates - I get around that by lowering the brightness. I don't think it clearly states it anywhere in the manual/FAQs--but you can use Alt+Page Down or Page Up to change the brightness (which disables the yellow tint). So sure, it doesn't cut out blue light as it would--but brightness can play a part in eye fatigue so it still helps somewhat.
***** I tested in skyrim and system shock 2 (since I'm playing those atm) and what it does with me is show me a static gamma and when I change the gamma it flickers to the gamma I select and changes back to the last flux gamma, which in skyrim is not bright enough with my enb and in system shock 2 it is too bright.
you need a pink screen
Windows has Nightlight built in....
cant believe this much blue is there to begin with
Derp
+Michael Walsh Your name sounds like some ghetto car wash company.
suomynona thanks babe :)
well... less bugs in my room for sure
I love randomly screenshotting intros to videos, they are always hilarious i.imgur.com/s3oit6h.png
I don't need Flux. I've already themed all of the websites that I visit regularly to be completely black. That way there's almost no blue light being emitted anyway.
handsome dude.
I use gunnars instead
F.lux doesn't work for me.I think Eye Pro is better,it is very easy to use, as it can perform the necessary adjustments automatically, based on the time of day. Late at night, the application
increases the strength of the filter, and the change is gradual enough not to be noticeable.
I see youadvertising this bs everywhere ... reported !
i just use gunnar glasses
It doesnt work .. because the PC still produce blue light .... so in Monitor you cant reduce blue light execpt you broke it and it maean you lost all blue color.
Nonsense. You are reducing the blue light output.
ohhh it works ... I don't need to watch the video then :p thanks
I down voted for the loud intro music. Please turn it down to the same level as ur voice
Doesn't really do anything. It's 12:29Am. With F.Lux on and then disabling it, the difference isn't that great. So that seems to me that my monitor was already pretty close in brightness to what F.Lux sets it to.
Why the actual fck do you need a jail broken phone to download this app. This could get Apple some money, what a loss.
S**t program, after uninstalling the color scheme is not disappearing
This is misleading. You have not shown whether f. lux really reduces blue light.
Granted, the program does make your screen look "yellowish", but this can be done by adding more Green and Red light as opposed to reduce the total Blue output for the monitor.
I was hoping to find a video of someone actually measuring the Blue light output using an optical spectrum analyzer.
William.Szuwei Lin Did you watch the video properly? The brightness setting on the monitor has not been changed at all which is a static setting separate from the computer (my monitor has no OSD/scalar on it). So flux does work by reducing your white balance to the point where a substantially less amount of blue light is being emitted.
you an eye doctor ?
What is the point in choosing a timezone? why dont you simply adjust it manually? useless option to me
Turn off the music!
do u think ur dank m8
+bezerkthecreator kid... bed time.
Does f.lux cause any damage to a computer? Like in the screen, or hardware?
AuroraS 92 no
nice vid !