This Free Windows App Turns Your Laptop Screen Into A Ring Light - How To Try It

Scott Hanselman

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Windows Edge Light tries to amended your look connected video calls.
• The app places a ray ringing astir your surface pinch much ambient light.
• Edge Light useful champion successful an area without different forms of lighting.

I ne'er for illustration nan measurement I look connected video calls. I'm fair-skinned and not easy to ray properly. Plus, my agency isn't arranged well, truthful I can't easy group up ray sources successful nan astir optimal positions. That's why I was eager to effort a caller Windows app that promises to make maine look amended connected video.

'Vibed' for Windows

Known arsenic Windows Edge Light, this free app places a clone glowing information ray ringing astir nan edges of your laptop surface aliases PC monitor. By providing a definite level of brightness that you control, nan app offers ambient lighting that tin footwear successful during video calls, streaming, aliases different instances wherever you want to look your best.

The app is nan creation of Microsoft developer Scott Hanselman, who revealed really he sewage nan idea.

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"I saw this article astir a caller Mac characteristic called 'Edge Light' that virtually puts a clone achromatic ringing ray astir your screen," Hanselman wrote successful a recent station connected X. "It's kinda insane and genius. So I vibed it for Windows."

How to try

To springiness it a whirl, caput to nan app's releases page connected GitHub. Download nan correct type for your version of Windows 10 aliases 11 --ARM aliases x64. Unzip nan downloaded ZIP file, and past tally nan WindowsEdgeLight executable record -- nary installation required.

It helps a bit

The ray root automatically appears and detects nan size of your surface to set accordingly. The ray moreover useful connected 4K monitors. Plus, a mini toolbar pops up astatine nan bottom. Here, you tin summation aliases alteration nan brightness, move nan ray connected and off, aliases adjacent nan root erstwhile you nary longer request it.

 You tin besides entree nan instrumentality from nan Windows strategy tray and usage circumstantial hotkeys to power nan light.

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The ray won't interfere pinch your activity successful Windows, though you tin easy reside it down aliases move it off. The main situation is to spot whether it improves your quality connected a video call.

On my end, nan ray helped a bit. I still didn't for illustration nan measurement I look, arsenic I look excessively fair-skinned. But I could spot really nan separator ray would thief different people, particularly if you're successful a acheronian room without different lighting available. If you've tried different tricks to look amended connected a video call, Windows Edge Light is surely worthy a shot.