Black Screen - full screen
Backlight bleed · glossy panel dust · screen off
- Check LCD backlight bleed and clouding
- Inspect OLED black levels and burn-in
- See dust and fingerprints on glossy panels
- Blank the display during a presentation
Backlight bleed · glossy panel dust · screen off
A black screen reveals faults that bright colours hide. An LCD cannot produce true black, so light leaking around the edges and corners becomes visible — this is backlight bleed, sometimes called clouding. On an OLED the same test shows how close to true black the panel gets and whether any burn-in remains. Glossy panels also show fingerprints and dust most clearly against black.
Using a display as a light source is the standard workaround when there is no ring light to hand. A laptop or monitor already sits directly in front of you, so the angle is natural, and the large emitting area gives soft shadows. Full brightness usually blows out skin detail, so drop it to 30-60 per cent and use the colour temperature slider to set the tone. Turn on keep screen awake so the display does not sleep part way through.
For testing, leave brightness at 100 per cent and colour temperature neutral — otherwise you are inspecting an adjusted colour rather than the panel itself. Turn off night mode and blue light filters too. To check thoroughly, cycle through red, green, blue, white and black; the dead pixel test page does that automatically.
The export here builds the image in your browser rather than downloading a pre-made file from a server. A canvas is filled with the current colour and saved, which means any resolution works and whatever brightness and colour temperature you set is baked into the file.