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Reality can be mirrored in digital videos at least in part… for example, we can watch a picturesque sunset in all its wondrous colors. But sometimes, we just want to mess around a little bit with this kind of reality- and this is the exact thinking behind our new flash player. We are also offering users the opportunity to adjust the brightness of each video without having to individually adjust the brightness of their monitor.

Step 1.
You can open the menu for this setting under the button in the lower right hand corner of the video screen. The second selection from the top is “Color Settings” and when clicked on, the color selector will open.

2. Step
Videos on sevenload can be adjusted while being played as direct color settings via the three canals for red, green and blue, as well as in their brightness.

3. Step
As of today our new motto is “Try it out!” The video we used as an example can first be seen with redish hues. Next we decided to throw a little blue light onto things, and then they got really dark (blue that is).

Important Note
By clicking on the “Restore” button, you can re-set everything to the default settings (it will look like it did in Step 2. again). The video will remain unaffected by the various settings because only the screen’s display is what is altered at the time. Furthermore, these color settings can only be saved by a user that is logged-in and the settings will be applied to all sevenload videos for that user.

Preview
We are also planning to make it possible for the settings to be adjusted/combined by anyone viewing the video, also when it is first released on sevenload. That way, it will remain the same whether someone adjusted it themselves or if they were configured by the videos owner. The pre-adjustments made by the video’s owner and other users will not create a color clutter, but rather will allow them to balance each other out.

Here’s another example: A video’s owner sets the brightness at 20% for all other viewers, but for some useres, this is too dark and they decide to re-set it to say, 80%. From this a default value is created using the formula (author’s color settings + individual’s color settings) / 2 - and that means that in this example, the video’s brightness that will be applied is 20+80/2 = 50 meaning the brightness will be set to 50%.