Gamma Panel -- Adjust Monitor Gamma via Hotkeys
Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 at 10:06 PM by Randall
Have you ever been in a full screen application or game that is just too bright (or, more likely, too dim)? Fiddling with your monitor's controls to adjust the brightness is a pain -- and you have to set them back when you finish using the errant program or ever other program you use will be too dim or too bright. There's an fairly expensive utility called Powerstrip with allows one to tweak one's graphics card (read overclock) that will also allow you to control the brightness with system-wide hotkeys and even set profiles for specific applications. Gamma Panel is a freeware application that lets you adjust brightness, contrast and gamma settings via hot-keys. It doesn't help you overclock your video card, but chances are you don't want to do that anyway. You just want to be able to see the errant program at some more normal level or brightness. It does that well.
From the Gamma Panel website:
The program is pretty simple - it just sits on the taskbar and does its job. You can apply profiles in 2 ways: by pressing assigned hot-key combination or by selecting the entry from the popup menu. The last selected color profile is automatically applied on the next program run.
Rating: 4 Stars
Operating System: Windows 98SE or higher
License:
Freeware
Price: Free
Version Reviewed: 1.0.0.20
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Site: http://www.donationcoders.com/stars/index.php?show=gapa
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