White Screen - full screen
Spot smudges · selfie light · lightbox
- Find dust and smudges on a monitor or TV
- Use the display as a soft selfie light
- Turn a tablet into a tracing lightbox
- Plain white backdrop for scanning or product shots
Spot smudges · selfie light · lightbox
A white screen is the most widely used solid colour. Filling the display with white makes dust, smudges and pressure marks obvious, which is why it is the usual first step before cleaning a panel. Because white is also the brightest thing most rooms contain, people use it as a fill light for video calls and selfies, and laying a sheet of paper over a bright tablet turns it into an improvised lightbox for tracing.
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.