The average person spends about six to eight hours in front of their computer monitor on a regular basis or through like me sometimes the day can last 12 hours in front of your computer monitor. So, we’re going to look at some tips and tricks that you can do in order to reduce eyestrain when you’re in the office. Why do you want to reduce eyestrain? Well, it’ll cut down on headaches and will actually help you concentrate a little bit better.
So, one of the things we want to look at is the glare of your computer screen. Will the angle of your computer screen, if you have a laptop, you can actually tilt it forward or back, most of you know that, but some people don’t even, actually when they sit down at their computer, take the time to actually think about how their eyes are responding to the screen. So, if you just take a moment when you sit down and look at how you are actually engaging with your screen, it’s going to help you out of raw.
The other thing that you can do is adjust the brightness on your screen, higher or lower depending on the lighting in the room. Also, you want to make sure that you’re not putting your computer right in front of a bright window right behind you because what’s going to happen is the light is going to come through and your eyes are really going to have to strain in order to see what’s going on, on the monitor.
If you find that the lighting in the room and the windows in the room are creating too much of a glare, there’s also glass-glare filters that you can buy for different LCD monitors whether it’s a laptop, PC, or Mac, that will cut down on that glare.
Native resolution is another factor that I want to consider. Every LCD screen has a certain number of pixels built into it. In order to check which native resolution you should set your monitor to, look on the box that your laptop came in, that your monitor came on or look it up on the web. The importance of this is that it will actually make sure that the pixels are coming through, the images coming through as clearly as possible. If you don’t have it set to its native resolution, it will be a little bit blurrier.
One last thing to keep in mind is the 20-20-20-rule. This is where every 20 minutes look away from your screen for at least 20 seconds and make sure that whatever you eyes is focused on is at least 20 feet away. All of these guides combined with the 20-20-20-rule will help keep you refreshed, reduced eyestrain, and keep you productive throughout the day.
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