Turn your Mac into a Light Table

[Michael Alpert]

Ken,

Thank you for the post. I see that there is more to this program than its white-screen function. I appreciate your willingness to share information. Thanks again.

[butterflydream]

This reminds me a nice free application called "ScreenCleaner Pro".

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/freebies/

The application cleans up old darkened monitor back to bright.
A freeware, though it's off-season.


Regarding the Light Table, it seems that it can control the color temperature and that's why it's not free.

[Ken Lee]

Everyone's points are well taken.

I am not wildly enthusiastic about the program: I am merely sharing what I found. n fact, I have not yet purchased a copy myself.

If you want to see the greatest thing since sliced bread, then get an Infra Red viewing device.

One nice feature: Light can set the entire screen to white, or whatever color you like - not just a region within a window, or a frame inside a window, or event the desktop background (which will often display icons, the menu bar, or the Dock).

Since my Mac is a laptop with a fairly small screen, it's helpful to turn the whole screen into light source at the press of a button.

[John Cahill]

I got to my word processing program and open up a blank document. What could be simpler?

[Joanna Carter]

One nice feature: Light can set the entire screen to white... Since my Mac is a laptop with a fairly small screen, it's helpful to turn the whole screen into light source at the press of a button.

Then you might like to try using Keynote, if you have it. Simply create a dummy presentation, present the first slide, and then press the "W" key; presto! a totally white screen.

[ronald moravec]

Buy a white page. I guess anything can be sold.

[Ken Lee]

OK OK - I give up !

I thought that if the people who wrote the program, would give me a penny for each copy I sell, I could retire, as a billionaire...



But now, thanks to all you smarty-pants LF computer geeks, I will have to abandon my cunning plan, and go back to my day job....

[ifer]

i use safari (blank page) to view my trans sometimes.
but i can't use a lupe as i will be distracted by the RGB diodes

[buze]

I always use a TextEdit blank window in the bottom right corner of the screen, I put my 4x5 tranny over it and I can color-correct the scan in the 'real' window with the real 'proof' alongside.

[walter23]

or Paint for that matter ...

Or your web browser to 'about:blank'.

I used that to "scan" my first large format negatives - firefox, "about:blank", and then my digital SLR on a tripod.

Of course the problem was picking up the detail in the display, so then I mounted the negatives a few inches above the laptop with a glass support. Worked well.