Windows 11 Color Filter Image Examples

Windows 11 includes congenital-in color filters that might help people with vision loss or colour vision deficiencies. To prepare a filter, all information technology takes is a trip to Accessibility options in the Settings app. Here'due south how to use them.

First, open Settings by pressing Windows+i. Or, you tin can open Start and search for "Settings," and so click its app icon in the results.

When Settings opens, click "Accessibility" in the sidebar, and and then select "Color Filters."

In Settings, click "Accessibility," then select "Color Filters."

In Colour Filters settings, flip the switch beside "Color Filters" to "On."

Flip the switch beside "Color Filters" to "On."

Next, click the "Color Filters" bar (the one with the switch) to expand the menu if it's not expanded already. When it'southward expanded, you'll see a list of six filters that are selectable past circular radio buttons. Here are the options:

  • Red-light-green (green weak, deuteranopia)
  • Cherry-green (red weak, protanopia)
  • Blueish-yellow (tritanopia)
  • Grayscale
  • Grayscale Inverted
  • Inverted

Click the circular push button beside the color filter choice that y'all'd like to use.

Click a circular button beside a color filter to pick it.

Every bit soon every bit you lot select it, the filter will apply immediately. You tin can preview the furnishings of the filter past looking at the color cycle, sample photo, and filigree of colors at the tiptop of the window in the "Color Filter Preview" department.

Preview color filters using the color filter preview area near the top of the settings page.

While you're here, you might want to enable the quick keyboard shortcut that allows you to quickly toggle colour filters on or off. To practice so, flip the switch beside "Keyboard shortcut for color filters" to "On."

Flip the switch beside "Keyboard Shortcut for Color Filters" to "On."

With that option enabled, you can press Windows+Ctrl+c on your keyboard at any time to toggle colour filters on or off.

Rapidly Turning Color Filters On or Off

There are two quick ways to toggle color filters on or off in Windows 11. To do so using your mouse, trackpad, or impact screen, click or tap the Quick Settings button in the taskbar (which is an invisible button located over the speaker and Wi-Fi icons), and and then select "Accessibility."

Open the Quick Settings menu and click or tap "Accessibility."

(If you lot don't run across the "Accessibility" push button in your Quick Settings menu, tap the pencil icon and add information technology to your carte.)

In the "Accessibility" Quick Settings menu, tap the switch beside "Color Filters" to plough it on.

In the "Accessibility" Quick Settings menu, tap the switch to turn "Color Filters" on.

To plough color filters off afterwards, just open Quick Settings again and flip the switch beside "Colour Filters" to the "Off" position.

Also, as mentioned in the last section, you lot can enable a keyboard shortcut for Color Filters. To do and then, open up Settings and navigate to Accessibility > Color Filters, and then flip the switch beside "Keyboard shortcut for color filters" to "On." After that, y'all tin press Windows+Ctrl+c on your keyboard to toggle color filters on or off.

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