Huion Kamvas 12 (2021) is an excellent choice for anyone looking for a high-quality, beginner-friendly screen drawing tablet.

With its sleek shape, responsive display, and an array of user-friendly features, it caters to a wide range of creative needs.

However, Prolonged exposure to Kamvas 12 screen can lead to eye strain, fatigue, and even long-term vision problems.

A key step in mitigating these issues is by correctly adjusting the brightness and contrast of your Kamvas 12 monitor.

If you are having a problem adjusting the brightness or contrast of your Kamvas 12 display, Here’s a comprehensive guide to help you do just that.

How to Adjust Brightness and Contrast on Huion kamvas 12?

On a huion kamvas 12 pen display , there are 2 standard ways to change the brightness and contrast.

Method 1:

Press and hold 2 middle shortcut buttons (K4 & K5) for 3 seconds to get into the OSD menu.

You can adjust all sorts of things here, such as brightness, contrast, sharpness, Colour temperature, etc.

However, It’s hard to navigate as it only uses the 4 tablet buttons and not the pen.

Method 2:

Windows driver has the additional functionality that allows you to adjust brightness, contrast, colour temperature, RGB and has some scene modes.

To access that, Open the Huion driver app and go into settings (little Gear icon at the top right). Then click the OSD button.

There are four modes to be chosen: “Standard Mode”, “Game Mode”, “Movie Mode” and “USER” mode. On the upper right are “Brightness”, “Contrast”, and “Saturation”.

When “Standard Mode”, “Game Mode”, or “Movie Mode” is chosen, Each scene mode has pre-configured brightness and contrast. So only the third bar will be blue and users can drag it to adjust the saturation.

When “USER” mode is chosen, all three bars will be blue and users can adjust the brightness, contrast, and saturation by dragging them.

However, You need to update the windows driver to Driver V14 or later to use this method, Apple MacOS does not support this setting method.

Conclusion

By following these methods and steps, you can enjoy a more comfortable and healthier digital experience.

The guide on this page work for adjusting brightness or contrast on a Huion kamvas 13 or Kamvas 16 as well.

If, after following the steps above your brightness is still not enough, plug your Kamvas 12 display into the wall instead of laptop.

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