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so if you struggle with digital eye
strain then it could be because your
eyes are light sensitive
and your computer screen is too bright
so
switching your computer into dark mode
might be able to help you out
so in this video i'm going to walk you
through how to enable dark mode
for windows 10 and i'll show you how to
activate dark mode
for google chrome's dark mode that way
all the different applications and
everything in the computer should be
working together plus stay tuned toward
the end because i'll throw in two extra
cool computer hacks
that can help with eyestrain as well so
let's get into it
now when it comes to enabling dark mode
on windows 10 you're going to go to the
home screen you'll right
click it'll open up a few options at the
bottom it'll say personalize
you'll click that it'll open up a
settings screen and on the far left
you'll see backgrounds colors lock
screen a few other options
you want to select colors under colors
it'll say choose your color
it should automatically be set to light
mode for most people
but if you click the little arrow it'll
open to custom and dark
select dark and you'll see it start to
switch automatically at the bottom
and then the background should turn a
nice dark inverting
the contrast and that should
automatically just make it feel a bit
more comfortable for your eyes
now from here if you open up chrome if
you're a chrome user like myself
the natural google page should
automatically start to detect that your
system your operating system of windows
10
has switched to dark mode so thankfully
they've updated google chrome to
automatically adjust itself and that
even includes for other google services
including youtube
so that means youtube search bar or
search page should be a nice darker
color as well
now if it doesn't do this automatically
for you on youtube
you can click your sign in page up here
to the top who you are
and it'll give you a few options and you
can just easily see appearance
now i have it selected to device theme
so it automatically knows by windows 10
being in dark mode that switches over
but you can switch it specifically to
dark theme if you wish or
back to a light theme if again that's
just you want that to be on your youtube
page
otherwise i personally again i like dark
theme so i'm going to use
my device's theme so it'll switch with
it but for some people
if you do still struggle with getting
this to switch over and you're not sure
why
you can also download a custom theme
for using google chrome you can do that
by going up to the three
dotted spots up here in the top right
click that
and you'll go all the way down to
settings
in settings you can scroll down to
appearance
or you can use the bar to the left and
on
appearance you can see theme and if you
click on theme it'll open up the chrome
web store
which thankfully these are all free you
can go to published by chrome they do
have a just black setting
myself personally way down here at the
bottom
there's another section called dark and
black themes and there's a whole bunch
to choose from
i personally have liked one
morphian dark that's the one that i've
used myself
it has about 9 000 people who've
reviewed it so it seems really
good but then you just click that you
can enable that
in your in your actual settings and now
you have a
whole other setting for dark mode and
you can see it's even darker than before
now there's two other quick helpful
things for eye strain that i also want
to show you
first is night light so to turn on night
light mode which is a mode that changes
the amount of blue light that comes from
your screen
you can right click anywhere on the home
page go to display
settings this time on display settings
you'll see
brightness and color you'll see the
different monitors if you have multiple
like i do
then you'll have night light and you can
just hit that button
and it'll turn it on now night light
mode again you could see the screen
turn a more of a fainted yellow color
now you can go to night light settings
and you can even adjust this you can
have the strength to zero which really
does nothing
and you can crank it all the way to 100
where the screen basically turns orange
i myself like to set it around the 60
mark i find that pretty comfortable
and you can even adjust what time of the
day that'll turn on for you
i have it set on to just switch over to
at sunset
and then it turns off at sunrise and
studies have shown that
blue light apps like this do help with
reducing the
melatonin suppression effect caused by
blue light and your sleep cycle
and the final cool thing i want to show
you is where you can invert
the colors on windows this is something
that usually i don't use very much
however for some of my patients who have
low vision
this can be very helpful and it's just
kind of cool thing to know
now you can activate inverted contrast
mode even on pages like the google
search page which usually still remains
white you can activate it by pressing
the windows key
as well as the plus sign at the same
time and that'll activate the magnifier
mode which
is kind of cool itself i mean if you
really need to zoom in close on
something
you can do that but then when that is
open
you can hit the alt and control buttons
with
i at the same time and
boom the screen completely inverts
everything to
what was white is now black what was
blue is now yellow
and it does look a little funny
sometimes because you can see pictures
uh everything again is inverted it's
kind of like an infrared mode almost
but this is something that can be useful
for people with
really poor low vision and this can be
helpful
in those certain situations it also can
be just something that's kind of fun to
play around with but then to shut it off
it's just the same thing in reverse you
hold
ctrl alt and i to shut that off
and then you can just close out of the
magnifier so hey i hope you found this
video helpful
if you have any questions comments or
any tips of your own for helping with
eye strain
on the computer screen switching to dark
mode things like that go and drop them
in the comments section below
i'd love to hear from you otherwise
again this is dr alan here from the dr
eye health show
keep an eye on it and we'll talk to you
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