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    How to take advantage of LaptopMedia’s Office, Gaming and Health-Guard profiles

    LaptopMedia.comReviews and AnalysisHow to take advantage of LaptopMedia’s Office, Gaming and Health-Guard profiles

    From: Simeon Nikolov 17 March 2016 / 20:26 | 68

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    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

    1. Office Work / Web design
    2. Gaming and movie nights
    3. Health-Guard
    4. Purchasing, installing and using the profiles

    Office Work / Web design

    item_1Let’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)

    No profile
    PreColorChecker-ASUS GL752
    With the “Office Work / Web design” profile
    PostColorsCheckerASUS GL752

    Gaming and movie nights

    item_2Gaming 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:

    No profile

    With the “Gaming and movie nights” profile

    For maximum results, we recommend minimizing ambient lighting when the profile is in use.

    Health-Guard

    item_3The 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.

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    Purchasing, installing and using the profiles

    Screenshot 2016-03-12 16.00.51

    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: https://goo.gl/FjBbYl

    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).

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    Author: Simeon NikolovEditor-in-Chief at Laptopmedia.com. One of his main duties is to analyze and test all of the new and exciting mobile devices.

    Comments

    1. Luke says

      13 April 2016 at 14:55

      Hi Simeon,

      I’m wondering if you intend on releasing a profile for the ASUS Zenbook UX305?

      Thanks!

      Luke

      Reply
      • Simeon Nikolov says

        29 April 2016 at 15:57

        Hello, Luke!
        Can you tell us what panel model you have in your UX305 ? 🙂

        Reply
    2. Frederic HOUBEN says

      16 May 2016 at 10:06

      Hello,

      How do I buy the specific profile for the LG Display LP156UD1-SPB2 ?

      Thanks,

      Frederic

      Reply
      • Simeon Nikolov says

        12 October 2016 at 15:50

        Hello, Frederic!
        Unfortunately, we still don’t have profiles for your screen. If we get our hands on it, we’ll surely bear you in mind.

        Reply
    3. Gleb Speshilov says

      7 July 2016 at 11:46

      I have bought your profile and it’s disgusting

      Reply
      • Simeon Nikolov says

        12 October 2016 at 15:51

        Hello, Gleb!
        Sorry to hear that. I saw that you’ve bought “Office Work / Web Design profile”. Our profiles are specifically tailored for the particular screens and they make colors as accurate as possible. Please check if your panel model matches the one stated in the profiles page. If the colors don’t look OK, it’s possible that you have a problem with your drivers or operating system. We had a similar feedback from a user who had been using an HDD from his old PC with Radeon drivers on his new NVIDIA machine.

        Reply
    4. Leo Florenzi says

      25 October 2016 at 02:37

      The profies are amazing, my favorite one is health guard! It helps a lot, no more headaches haha… :)… Simeon and his team are always up to help, they are doing an amazing work with this site.

      Reply
    5. Steven McQuinn says

      22 November 2016 at 12:30

      These profiles really saved my investment in the Acer Aspire. I liked the features of this low cost, well equipped system, but hated the screen display and couldn’t get satisfactory corrections with the Windows 10 display management. The profiles custom made for this model each work in their own way, but I like gaming and movie nights profile for photo work. Ten dollars for profiles compared with hundreds of dollars more for a better screen seems to me a good deal.

      Reply
    6. Jonathan Mogensen says

      25 November 2016 at 18:21

      Hey, I recently bought the ASUS ROG G501 (http://laptopmedia.com/review/asus-rog-g501-review-the-new-standard-for-next-generation-gaming-laptops/), and it seems like there are no display profiles for this laptop. Have you developed any display profiles for this laptops display, or would the G502 laptop’s profiles work (http://laptopmedia.com/review/asus-rog-gl502-gtx-970m-review-premium-gaming-notebook-with-special-attention-to-detail/)?
      Note the G501 has a Samsung 156HL01-102 while the G502 has a Samsung 156HL01-104, so thought that they might be compatible, but just wanna know, since it would be a shame if I was stuck with the screen flickering.

      Reply
    7. Marc Singer says

      4 December 2016 at 15:02

      I’m just reading about your profiles for the first time. Despite reading through this article, I don’t understand what these profiles actually do. You save them to your hard drive, and then they do what, exactly? They configure your settings to optimize your display for a particular set of tasks? If you could provide a dumbed-down version of this article, I’d appreciate it. Thanks.

      Reply
    8. Theodoros Orfanidis says

      10 December 2016 at 12:42

      Colour profiles change the way your monitor renders each colour. Each colour is defined by three numbers, one for red, one for green and one for blue. Due to monitor differences, no monitor displays the same colour for the same 3 numbers. That’s why your calibrate a display, on order to create a colour profile that corrects the monitor inaccuracies.

      Reply
      • Marc Singer says

        10 December 2016 at 13:25

        Thanks, that makes sense. But my question is not about why you might need to adjust your color display; rather, I want to know what this profile product does. So I buy this and then what happens? Is it a list of settings that I implement, or does it automatically configure my laptop?

        Reply
        • Theodoros Orfanidis says

          10 December 2016 at 16:51

          This profile they sell is the product of their reviews. While reviewing monitors and laptops, they use equipment that measures the colour accuracy. In addition to that they try to calibrate the screens so they end up with these profiles that make the screens look as accurate as possible. The only thing you need to do is install the right profile for your hardware and the OS does the rest.

          However, keep in mind that you need the exact model and hardware revision that they also used in their reviews.

          Reply
    9. Ivan says

      12 December 2016 at 13:19

      Awesome profiles! I’m using the Health-Guard and my eyes definitely feel better when I stay in front of the laptop for a long time.

      Reply
    10. Alicesia says

      16 January 2017 at 05:34

      hello…i just bought all four of them for my Acer F5-573G and dragged all three to the LM Profiles app, but nothing happen! instead i lost all three profiles! please help!

      Reply
      • Rossen Pandev says

        17 January 2017 at 06:42

        I think you’ve already resolved the problem or I am mistaken?

        Reply
    11. i106 (@i106) says

      22 January 2017 at 12:11

      Hi I would love to buy the profiles for ASUS UX305 with the exact same panel as in your review… (I decided to buy that model based on your review)… But I see that you do not offer it… Can I kindly request them?

      Reply
    12. Gennady says

      27 January 2017 at 12:12

      Where I can download the profiles? I have paid by paypal, but there is no link provided.

      Reply
      • Simeon Nikolov says

        28 January 2017 at 01:55

        We sent you an e-mail 🙂

        Reply
    13. amits123 says

      13 February 2017 at 11:24

      Do you have a profile for Msi Gl62 7qf ?
      Regards.

      Reply
    14. Galtzagorri says

      22 March 2017 at 07:18

      What is the exact effect of the Health-Guard profile? Does it eliminate the pulsations from the PWM on the display, or does this profile just increase the frequency?

      Reply
      • Rossen Pandev says

        22 March 2017 at 08:38

        It eliminates it. 🙂

        Reply
        • Galtzagorri says

          23 March 2017 at 02:08

          Thank you for the quick answer.

          Reply
    15. Andrii says

      23 March 2017 at 18:37

      Hi I’m considering to buy profiles for Samsung 156HL01-104 screen and wondering how profile can eliminate PWM?
      Does it set brightness on 100%?

      Reply
      • Simeon Nikolov says

        24 March 2017 at 00:32

        Yes, you should set the Windows brightness slider to 100% and use the slider in our application instead 🙂

        Reply
        • Alain says

          28 August 2017 at 14:37

          Can this work in Asus UX303LN with Samsung YLLTN133YL01-L01 screen?

          Reply
    16. Alec says

      3 April 2017 at 07:45

      Are these profiles for Windows only? Can they be used on Ubuntu Linux?

      Reply
    17. Thomas Terp Jensen says

      3 May 2017 at 09:51

      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

      Reply
      • Rossen Pandev says

        4 May 2017 at 01:27

        Unfortunately, we currently don’t have profiles for this panel.

        Reply
        • Thomas Terp Jensen says

          4 May 2017 at 01:56

          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/

          Reply
          • Rossen Pandev says

            4 May 2017 at 02:22

            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.

            Reply
            • Thomas Terp Jensen says

              4 May 2017 at 02:35

              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?

            • Rossen Pandev says

              4 May 2017 at 04:13

              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?

    18. Thomas Terp Jensen says

      4 May 2017 at 12:14

      I bought mine in Denmark 2 weeks ago

      Reply
    19. Mefist says

      5 May 2017 at 10:04

      Hi,
      Do you have profiles for Lenovo Y700 15- ISK 80NV? Thank you

      Reply
      • Simeon Nikolov says

        5 May 2017 at 10:39

        Here you are, Mefist:
        http://laptopmedia.com/screen/lg-lp156wf6-spk1/
        🙂

        Reply
    20. levent says

      9 May 2017 at 06:40

      Hello, Do you have profiles for LP156WF6-SPA1?

      Reply
    21. AndyPSV says

      12 May 2017 at 11:21

      Have you got profiles for Lenovo v110-15(80)?

      Reply
    22. Katrina says

      13 May 2017 at 03:39

      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.

      Reply
      • Simeon Nikolov says

        14 May 2017 at 03:33

        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 🙂

        Reply
        • Katrina says

          14 May 2017 at 04:26

          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.

          Reply
    23. allan merck says

      15 May 2017 at 08:46

      Hi, is there any profile for my laptop Acer F5-573G-7536 ? thanks I’m interested to purchase

      Reply
    24. levent inallı says

      16 May 2017 at 05:28

      Hello, Do you have profiles for LP156WF6-SPA1?

      Reply
    25. dilara says

      25 May 2017 at 03:10

      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-

      Reply
    26. Alec Isaacs says

      6 June 2017 at 01:31

      Have any for the MacBook 12″?

      Reply
    27. Jeffrey Lipata says

      24 June 2017 at 13:50

      how can i have it again coz i bought it before but i reformat my laptop so i cant afford to buy those profiles.

      Reply
    28. Jeanette Calder says

      27 June 2017 at 20:47

      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

      Reply
    29. Larry says

      16 August 2017 at 08:19

      do you have / will you be doing profiles for Dell XPS 15 9560 w 4k 3840 x 2160 display

      Reply
    30. papabarnes says

      23 August 2017 at 17:56

      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 Downloads folder, so I dragged and dropped the file right onto the LM App. Nothing happened. I tried copy and pasting the downloaded file from IE and still no result.

      Please help. I was really looking forward to using the health guard profile.

      Reply
      • Rossen Pandev says

        24 August 2017 at 15:28

        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.

        Reply
    31. Eduardo says

      28 August 2017 at 10:15

      Hi Rossen,

      How would I know if my monitor is supported? do you have the list of the supported monitors? I just purchased your profile.

      Thank you!

      Reply
      • Rossen Pandev says

        28 August 2017 at 14:48

        Here’s the list of supported displays.

        Reply
        • Eduardo says

          28 August 2017 at 16:44

          Hi Rossen, maybe you forgot to post the list of supported displays 🙂

          Thank you, Rossen!

          Reply
          • Rossen Pandev says

            29 August 2017 at 01:35

            Yes, sorry about that. I’ve edited the comment.

            Reply
    32. Ivan says

      3 September 2017 at 11:56

      Hi, any news for supporting Lenovo y520 AU Optronics display?
      Thanks!

      Reply
    33. Barbara says

      26 September 2017 at 16:59

      Hi – any chance you’ll develop a profile set for Apple laptops? A long shot I’m sure, but worth asking! Thanks.

      Reply
      • Rossen Pandev says

        27 September 2017 at 00:55

        We already have for the MacBook Pro 15 if you are interested.

        Reply
    34. Tjeerd ten Hoopen says

      27 October 2017 at 08:40

      Hello, I have this monitor. I have bought the design and gaming profile and I’m wondering what the settings of the monitor itself should be? Should I set everything to default? or use the sRBG preset?

      Reply
    35. Mohammad says

      8 November 2017 at 03:53

      hi, i just purchased a Lenovo Yoga 720 15inch. In my previous HP laptop the white color was cool or blueish, but the Yoga’s white color is warm and yellowish. Do you have a profile that can turn the yellowish color to cool white? Thanks

      Reply
    36. Robin Poulot says

      7 December 2017 at 14:31

      Hi, just purchased a profile, downloaded the software, drag and dropped the icm file but nothing happens, I also tried with the zip itself but still no chances. Can you help me please ?

      Reply
      • Simeon Nikolov says

        8 December 2017 at 01:07

        Yes, we can, could you please send us your Order Number or Transaction ID at [email protected]? Thank you very much 🙂

        Reply
    37. Rok Avšič says

      9 December 2017 at 15:49

      Hi, does the brightness in laptop settings needs to be set to max in order to achieve best colour accuracy?

      Reply
    38. M Despres says

      11 December 2017 at 09:31

      Hello,

      Can you please explain what the PWM correction does? Does the profile simply set brightness to 100% and then produces an overlay / adjust contrast to make the screen appear lower brightness? Or does it actually change the frequency of the pwm somehow? Thanks.

      Best,
      Michael

      Reply
      • Rossen Pandev says

        13 December 2017 at 12:02

        It changes the colors and contrast ratio to make it look a less bright but unfortunately, for now, we can’t find a way to directly interfere with the PWM/PWM frequency.

        Reply
    39. Christofas Efstathios says

      25 January 2018 at 05:02

      hello there , i have purchased your profiles , BUT they dont work =/

      Reply
      • Simeon Nikolov says

        25 January 2018 at 05:03

        Hey, Christofas! Can you explain a bit more so we can help you 🙂

        Reply
    40. goodsammy (@goodsammy1) says

      23 February 2018 at 13:03

      Never heard of display calibration profiles before. Anyway, does this slow the system down or affect the performance in anyway? How is the HealthGuard different from flux?

      Reply
      • Rossen Pandev says

        26 February 2018 at 03:17

        No, it doesn’t affect performance at all. And as for the Health-Guard profile, it reduces the blue light while retaining color accuracy to some extent (as much as possible) and makes the maximum brightness of the display more bearable so you can use it to eliminate PWM. Whereas f.lux just lowers the so-called blue light.

        Reply

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