Lumen For the Mac: Auto Adjust the brightness depending on the content on the screen

A new utility with self-learning algorithm can automatically reduce or increase the brightness of Mac display, based on the prevailing colors of the applications with which you are working.

Peak productivity of many of us have in the evening or even night. And to save your eyes from excessive stress at work for Mac, enthusiasts have come up with many different tools. Of all known f.luxThat changes the color temperature during the day, to ShadyAllowing the screen to darken and thereby further reduce the brightness. New tool Lumen pursues the same goals, but achieves them a little differently.

The utility has absolutely no settings, and the only item that it adds to the menu bar after installation - this is a temporary suspension. Lumen The principle of operation is best explained using SIFCO below.

Yes, you understood everything correctly. Utility distinguishes dark or bright colors prevail on the screen and instantly adjusts brightness levels for any changes. After watching the bright pages in the browser and switch to the text editor, where you have enabled Night theme design, Lumen will automatically increase the brightness and vice versa.

Works all this is very good: fast reaction and adjustment takes place in a small range, but just enough to get the job done in the evening comfortably. Developer points to project pageThat Lumen learns on the basis of a special algorithm: remembers how when changing from dark to bright interface adjust brightness yourself, and then repeat your actions. So keep in mind that after some time the utility will work better.

Built-in Mac brightness control depending on the lighting helps cool, but at dusk or in the dark from her little good. Lumen is perfectly correct this deficiency. Who knows, maybe in future versions of Apple's MacOS add a similar function.

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