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Displaying random pixels on LCD

Will it damage my LCD screen if I display a stream of continuously changing randomly colored pixels, at the monitor's refresh rate, for a long time? As in, will it damage it any more than displaying a ...
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Desktop icons and fullscreen flash apps pixelated instead of blurred

On my other devices, and as far as I can remember, at some point on this laptop, stretched graphics such as desktop icons, and fullscreen flash apps (such as Youtube, Vimeo) appear pixelated and ...
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How to know pixel values precisely?

How to know one single pixel RGB and transparency values precisely in Photoshop? Using eyedropper tools I seem not to be able to do that, i.e. it shows RGB=(0,0,0) on partially transparent pixels ...
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Green flickering pixels that move with black images

Strange question... Occasionally, on my LCD screen, pixels that should be black flicker rapidly and constantly between black and green, about 4 flickers a second. The crazy part is, unlike dead/stuck ...
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Windows command line - get pdf page width and height in pixels?

I need a piece of software (a freeware preferably) that will display what is the pixel width / height of a pdf page. If there are many pages with different dimensions, I'd be enough to just get the ...
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Why are red&green pixels moving around on my screen?

The top left corner of my LCD monitor is acting up. The pixels are colored red and green. Not completely on like a stuck pixel, but variably faded. It's a seemingly random distribution, centered on ...
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Monitors with different pixel sizes

I have several monitors with different pixel sizes (that is, size of individual pixels; not resolution). This means that when I put them next to each other and move the mouse between them, it's not ...
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Samsung T220 has white pixel “snow” on images with dark backgrounds

My 4-year-old Samsung T220 has been having an interesting problem lately. On images with very dark/black backgrounds, I see flickering white pixels on the foreground parts of the image that isn't the ...
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What's meant by work resolution in reference to a LCD screen of a desktop?

My Acer LCD's Work Resolution is 1600*860 pixels. But I have no option to set it. I do have options 1600*900. Windows says that I am at recommended resolution 1600*900. But I see Red Shading all over ...
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How to get rid of light border around inserted images in Microsoft Visio?

When inserting a raster PNG image into Microsoft Visio 2007, it tries to make it smoother by interpolating pixel colors. It seems like Visio interpolates border pixels with white as if image was ...
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Photoshop cs5 - Subpixel sizes

Is there a way I can disable subpixel work for a specific document? I'd like to be able to move an element on a full pixel grid instead of subpixels, preventing stuff to be placed at 128,23 Y-axis for ...
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Seeking pixelated font

I'm seeking a font graphic (images, not TTF format or something that needs to be useable by a computer) that fits in 9 by 9 pixels. Can anyone recommend a free source, or a simple technique for ...
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Dell laptop connecting to an external monitor - everything looks too big

I have a Dell XPS Studio 1640 which displays in 1900 by 1200 res. Recently, I bought a 19" monitor for it which has a maximum resolution of about 1300 or so. The problem though is when I plug it in, ...
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Scrolling pixel-by-pixel with direction pad in Mozilla Firefox

Is there a configuration setting in Firefox that allows me to control using the arrow keys to scroll into a direction by 1 pixel?
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How to scale a bitmap in Photoshop without anti-aliasing?

I have this pixely layer which I need to scale 200% in both directions. Since the pixels should be exactly double the size, I expect no anti-aliasing. (fuzziness). However, the newly sized image is ...
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Minimum number of pixels per digit for the human eye?

How many pixels per digit do I need for the huhman eye to be able to recognize that digit? I need to cover a rather big area and identify ID codes. The digits are 10 cm high and maybe 8 cm wide. ...
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Get average image from video

In Ubuntu 10.04, is there a program that I can install (or is pre-installed) that can get the mean color value of each pixel from a video. The purpose behind this is to see if the result of getting ...
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Software for “OCR”'ing exact pixels from a photo of a videogame/pixel-art?

I am searching for software that can reconstruct the exact pixels from a photo of an old videogame or a piece pixel-art. The goal would be the re-digitalization of digital images that only survived in ...
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Why don't monitors have more pixels per inch?

72 ppi is nothing. And we have been stuck with this for 20 years. Why do we need to resort to stupid tech like anti-aliasing instead of resolving the core of the issue, more pixels per inch!!! It is ...
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Get image pixels of prescribed color

I have an image (PNG or JPG) inside which there is at least one pixel of a certain RGB color I know in advance. I want to find the pixel(s) of that color For example, I may have image.jpg, inside ...
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what is the pixel per inch in todays common laptop monitors?

what is the pixel per inch in todays common laptop monitors? how can we find it in our system? does it affect the image quality display?
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What is the most lightweight software to find out the hex value of an image pixel? [closed]

Sometimes I saw some good-looking images and would like to know the hex value of a particular pixel which can be used in CSS. But launching Photoshop for doing such a simple thing is no good, is ...
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How to create transparent pixels in photoshop CS4

I want to create a .png icon with transparent pixels to show what is beneath. How do I change the white pixels to be transparent using Adobe Photoshop CS4?
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How widespread are dead pixels?

How widespread is the problem of dead pixels or hot pixels these days? Has the problem become worse with larger monitors and resolutions or become better with better build quality? Do any hardware ...