Purple Screen - full screen
Mood lighting Β· ambient glow
- Purple mood lighting for photos
- Improvised ambient or accent light
- Night-time shooting backdrop
- Dreamlike colour cast
Mood lighting Β· ambient glow
Purple is popular for lighting effects precisely because it is uncommon in daylight. Formed by driving the red and blue subpixels together, it rarely occurs in natural scenes, so a purple cast immediately reads as staged or stylised. At low brightness a purple screen works as an accent light in a dark room.
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.