United Kingdom
India
Deutschland
France
Canada
España
Belgium
Netherlands
Poland
Sweden
България
Australia
Singapore
Italia
中国
日本How to take advantage of LaptopMedia’s Office, Gaming and Health-Guard profiles
You’re familiar with the negative impact of blue light emitted by displays – we have discussed that in detail in our dedicated article on the matter. We have also shared a solution of our own making, which includes the development of individual profiles for every display currently available on the market. Our new project, however, is not limited to the Health-Guard profile. Every machine we test in our lab will be additionally provided with a set of Office Work/Web design profiles, as well as a profile specifically designed with Gaming/Movie nights in mind.
The profiles will be sold online for a modest price. By purchasing them, users will not only obtain a useful product for their displays, but will also support the development and expansion of our lab where we conduct of all of our specialized work for various projects.
In this article we’ll briefly summarize what the profiles actually are and how users can take advantage of them. We’ll also include a quick installation guide for the profiles, as well as info on how to easily switch between different profiles.
Contents
Office Work / Web design
Let’s start with productivity. Business tasks are various, most often related to a set of office-targeted applications. Sometimes, working outside is necessary. In such cases color accuracy is paramount, but so is image clarity, brightness, contrast etc. A piece of text must be legible, graphics and histograms must be clear. All of this is precisely what this profile is for. If you’re doing office work, web design, or simply value color accuracy when browsing the Internet, this is the profile to use!
It’s important to note that not all displays are suited for Web design – our profiles can not compensate for insufficient sRGB coverage (most TN panels have this problem), so you you might want to check our detailed color tests in the respective product reviews we’ve done if you want to use the machine for professional work.
Color accuracy (lower result indicators are better)
Gaming and movie nights
Gaming is among the main driving forces for the fast clip of hardware development. Gamers are well-aware of the fact that a poor image can ruin the entire experience.
The same goes for watching movies. Imagine sitting down for a nice movie after a long day, and barely making out what’s on the screen. The ‘Gaming and movie night’ profile can make a huge difference. We strongly recommend you use it, since it’s gamma curve is specifically tuned to reveal details in the dark sections of the image.
Here’s what this amounts to:
For maximum results, we recommend minimizing ambient lighting when the profile is in use.
Health-Guard
The third profile aims to safeguard your health. Its goals are threefold. Once again, it’s tailored for each individual display model – if the screen has a PWM-controlled backlight, the profile closes up the pixels, thus reducing brightness and avoiding the negative impact of PWM. Secondly, the profile strives to minimize light in the 430nm range (blue), since blue light is undesirable, especially if the device is used after work, late at night etc. Doing so creates a number of issues, and you can read more about that here.
> Health impact of displays’ blue light emissions and our solution to the problem
And finally, in spite of the sudden drop in white temperature (from above 6500K to about 4500K), the image must have good contrast, be clear and legible, and needs to be perceived as accurate in terms of colors. When viewing photos blues must be blue, greens must be green, etc. You don’t want to end up with a vaguely-reddish image that’s burdening to your eyes. That is precisely what clearly demonstrates the difference between our Health-Guard profile and free solutions such as F.Lux.
Purchasing, installing and using the profiles
Each of our laptop reviews will include a special profile section that will allow you to purchase by card or via PayPal. Purchasing the three profiles as a package gets you a major discount, and the amount you have paid will be invested in our lab, so that we can expand and improve our reviews even further. We do this with only one goal in mind – we want our reviews to be as objective and as useful as possible for you, our audience.
*Should you have problems with downloading the purchased file, try using a different browser to open the link you’ll receive via e-mail. If the download target is a .php file instead of an archive, change the file extension to .zip or contact us at [email protected].
The profiles require no installation. Simply save them to your hard drive. To effortlessly use and swap profiles, in collaboration with Iristech.co, we have developed the LM Profiles application. Just download it and Drag & Drop the profiles over the app. That’s it! Now you can easily switch modes and take advantage of the PWM Free Brightness Slider in the Heatlh-Guard section.
You can download the LM Profiles application HERE.
Since all of our profiles are created for certain display panels, please check whether your screen matches the model number described in our profile package. You can do that with software like HWiNFO (download) or AIDA64 (download).
Are these profiles for Windows only? Can they be used on Ubuntu Linux?
Hi
Just want to make sure, I get the correct profiles.
I got the Lenovo Legion Y520 with the Nvidia 1050TI and 15,6″ screen. Info here from HWinfo:
Monitor Name: AU Optronics [Unknown Model: AUO61ED]
Monitor Name (Manuf): AUO B156HAN06.1
Serial Number: Unknown
Date Of Manufacture: Week: 0, Year: 2016
Monitor Hardware ID: Monitor\AUO61ED
Is it possible to get a direct link to correct purchase? Thanks
/Thomas
Unfortunately, we currently don’t have profiles for this panel.
Really? But you recently reviewed the Legion Y520 and linked to profiles. Doesnt they work with my Y520 then?
Here is where I read about it:
http://laptopmedia.com/review/lenovo-legion-y520-gtx-1050-ti-review-the-y-series-are-finally-on-the-right-track/
Yes, but if you read the review, you will see that the unit we reviewed uses a different panel from LG and not from AUO so the profiles won’t work with yours.
Ah okay. Is the AUO a worse panel than the LG then?
And do you think profiles will be made for the panel in my model?
We haven’t tested the AUO configuration so we can’t say for sure. But if we come across this panel in the future, we will release profiles for it. I’m curious, though, where did you get yours from? Which country?
I bought mine in Denmark 2 weeks ago
Hi,
Do you have profiles for Lenovo Y700 15- ISK 80NV? Thank you
Here you are, Mefist:
http://laptopmedia.com/screen/lg-lp156wf6-spk1/
🙂
Hello, Do you have profiles for LP156WF6-SPA1?
Have you got profiles for Lenovo v110-15(80)?
I have a lenovo thinkpad e570 and I bought the office work / web design profile from the e570 review page, but I don’t see any differences between it and the default profile (gamma and colour balance appears the same for both profiles). Was this meant to happen, because it feels like I bought the profile for nothing.
Please, drop us a line at [email protected]. Could you please check if you have the latest GPU drivers installed and also make sure that you don’t have another color correction software installed and running. Thanks 🙂
Solved the problem, turns out the ‘use windows display calibration’ option was turned off so that was stopping the icc file from taking effect. Turned it on and seems to be working now.
Hi, is there any profile for my laptop Acer F5-573G-7536 ? thanks I’m interested to purchase
Hello, Do you have profiles for LP156WF6-SPA1?
Hello Thank you for usefull information. I want to buy one of ASUS ux305ca with m5 or m7 core and wonder if one of them is flicker free. I am looking for your reply-
Have any for the MacBook 12″?
how can i have it again coz i bought it before but i reformat my laptop so i cant afford to buy those profiles.
Hi Rossen Simeon. I own an Asus UX303UB which your site offers profiles for. But I have a different specs than the model you reviewed. Difference in RAM and Hardrive size etc. I am guessing its the graphic card that matters….I got a NVIDIA GeForce 940M and apparently an Intel(R) HD Graphics 520? Will the profiles provided work for me? Thanks
do you have / will you be doing profiles for Dell XPS 15 9560 w 4k 3840 x 2160 display
Just purchased the Health Guard profile but I have been unable to get the profile to upload into the LM Application. I am very frustrated and annoyed at the lack of direction and support provided for how to upload the profiles. This seems to be quite user-unfriendly software. Opening the email link with Chrome didn’t work (downloaded the index.php file), so I tried Explorer. I was prompted to choose an app with which to open the downloaded extension with, so I fished thru my program files and chose the LM Application. Nothing happened. However, a new file appeared in my… Read more »
Just change the file’s extension, which you just downloaded, to .zip and then just drag-drop into the LM app. If it doesn’t work, please contact us again and we will solve the issue ASAP.