Blue Screen - full screen
Dead pixel check Β· cool lighting
- Find dead or stuck blue subpixels
- Cool-toned selfie and portrait lighting
- Cyberpunk or blue hour colour cast
- Cool backdrop for small objects
Dead pixel check Β· cool lighting
Blue is a standard pixel-test colour, but most people now reach for it as a light source. Placing a blue screen in front of your face in a dark room produces the cold, moody cast associated with blue hour and cyberpunk-style portraits. Full brightness blows out skin detail, so 30 to 50 per cent usually gives the colour without losing the face.
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 β 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.