Too yellow. Too warm. Washed out. Something about the colors on your built-in display just isn't right — and Windows doesn't give you a proper way to fix it. ChromaLayer does. Adjust your screen's color temperature, vibrancy and more in real time. Your settings survive reboots, sleep and driver resets.
One-time purchase. No subscription, no account. Windows 10 & 11, 64-bit.
Screen recording of ChromaLayer running on Windows. 32 seconds — press play.
On many Intel laptops, the built-in display looks too yellow, too warm, or washed out. You can adjust brightness, but that doesn’t fix the color. Windows has no color temperature slider for your built-in screen. And when a vendor tool does exist — like Intel Graphics Command Center — its settings often reset after a restart.
Read our diagnostic guide for yellow screensOpen ChromaLayer, drag the color temperature slider, and watch your screen change. That one control fixes most yellow or warm tints. Six more sliders handle vibrancy, brightness, contrast and the rest. Five presets if you want a starting point.
Every adjustment hits your whole screen as you drag. HoldCtrl Shift Cto see the original, release to bring your settings back.
ChromaLayer re-applies your settings after sign-in, unlock, resume from sleep and display changes — the exact moments that normally wipe them. A background watchdog checks every 5 seconds so nothing drifts.
ChromaLayer Display Studio is a single window that sits in your system tray. Adjust warmth, vibrancy, contrast and more — all on one screen, labelled in plain English, with the value right next to each slider.
Drag the divider. The right side shows the same photograph with a ChromaLayer preset applied — the same color change the desktop app puts on your whole screen. Try each preset to see how different they look.
What you’re looking at. The right-hand side is rendered live in your browser using ChromaLayer’s color math, applied to this photograph. It’s not a photo of a laptop screen, and how much difference you see depends on your own display. The 14-day trial is the only honest way to find out.
These are the same controls from the desktop app, running in your browser. Same ranges, same defaults, same order of operations. The only difference is scope: here they change one picture — in ChromaLayer they change your whole display.
Web preview of the desktop controls. Nothing leaves your device.
Make colors more vivid. Grays and skin tones stay neutral.
Make your screen warmer or cooler. This is the main fix for a yellow-looking display.
Warm 2700 KCool 10000 KBrighten or dim the image — separate from your laptop’s hardware brightness key.
Make darks darker and brights brighter. Adds punch without shifting the overall look.
Lift dark areas so you can see more detail in shadows.
Pull down overly bright areas to bring back detail in highlights.
Rotate all colors around the spectrum. Mostly for creative use.
Quick-start presets
Color temperature fixes the yellow tint. These six other controls handle everything else — vibrancy, contrast, shadows, highlights, brightness and hue. Each one stacks cleanly with the others.
How vivid the image is, and how warm or cool whites look.
Make colors more vivid. Grays and skin tones stay neutral by construction.
0 – 200 · default 100Make your screen warmer or cooler. This is the main fix for a yellow-looking display. Follows a Planckian-locus approximation for accurate color shifts.
2700 – 10000 K · default 6500 KBrighten or dim the image — separate from your laptop’s hardware brightness key.
−100 – +100 · default 0Where the shadows sit, where the highlights stop, and how much punch the image has.
Make darks darker and brights brighter. Pivots around mid-grey so the image doesn’t drift.
0 – 200 · default 100Lift dark areas so you can see more detail in shadows — useful when your panel swallows dark detail.
0 – 30 · default 0Pull down overly bright areas to bring back detail in highlights instead of flat white.
70 – 100 · default 100Rotate the whole spectrum, or start from a known point.
Rotate all colors around the spectrum. Luminance is preserved through BT.709 weights.
−180° – +180° · default 0°Natural, Vivid, Cinema, Gaming and Night as starting points. Adjust any slider from there and save it as Custom.
5 presets + CustomChromaLayer changes how your entire screen looks. That means it has to be careful about how it runs, and honest about what happens when something goes wrong.
Runs at standard user privilege as a single process. Self-contained — no .NET runtime needed. Nothing is transmitted anywhere without you doing it.
Restore runs on normal exit and on both unhandled-exception paths. If ChromaLayer crashes, your display doesn’t stay stuck mid-change.
Your profile is written to a temporary file and then moved into place, so a power cut mid-save can't leave a half-written settings file behind.
If the watchdog hits five consecutive conflicts it can’t explain, it stops re-applying and tells you — instead of silently fighting another app for control of your screen.
ITU-R BT.709 luminance weights and Tanner Helland’s Planckian-locus approximation for temperature. Nothing proprietary, nothing hand-waved.
Ctrl Shift Alt R restores your original colors without opening the window — even if the interface is behaving oddly.
No subscription, no tiers, no upsell. Try it for fourteen days first.
Not a subscription. You will not be billed again.
Payment is handled by Dodo Payments. Downloads and updates come from GitHub Releases. The installer is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen shows a warning the first time.
Dodo Payments emails you a license key. Open ChromaLayer, go to License, paste it in. That's it — no account to create, nothing to sign into.
Yes. Press Release in ChromaLayer on the old machine, then activate on the new one. If the old machine is gone or was wiped first, message us from the in-app Feedback dialog and we'll free the slot.
That's what the 14 days are for. Install the trial before you buy — it is fully featured, and it costs nothing to find out.
No. It is the complete app for 14 days. When it ends, colors return to baseline and the buy prompt appears — Restore Baseline keeps working either way.
ChromaLayer is v1.0. It does one job well. Here’s exactly what it supports — and what it doesn’t.
The build target, and where it is tested.
Blocked on purpose. The app checks and tells you rather than misbehaving.
It runs on Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit, on a built-in laptop display in SDR. It is built for and works on all GPUs including Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA. HDR displays and multi-monitor setups are not supported.
How much difference you actually see depends on your panel. The 14-day trial is the reliable way to find out on your own machine, and it costs nothing.
ChromaLayer applies color through the Windows Magnification API — the same mechanism behind Windows' own accessibility color filters. There is no kernel driver, no elevation, and nothing written to your monitor's firmware.
Restore Baseline returns your display to its original state at any time, from the main window, the tray menu, or Ctrl Shift Alt R. Your colors are also restored automatically when the app exits, including after a crash.
ChromaLayer watches for it. A watchdog re-reads the live color matrix every 5 seconds and re-applies your profile on any mismatch.
After sign-in, unlock, resume from sleep and display changes it re-applies at checkpoints across the first 25 seconds. That window exists for a specific reason: the Windows desktop compositor resets its magnification pipeline 15 to 25 seconds after a session transition, so a single re-apply at the moment of wake isn't enough.
No. $5.99 once, for version 1.x. There is no recurring charge and no account to create.
One at a time. Moving it is self-service: press Release inside ChromaLayer on the old machine, then activate on the new one.
If the licensed machine died or was wiped before you released it, send a message from the in-app Feedback dialog and we'll free the slot manually. Your license data is retained, so you are never permanently locked out.
The installer isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen shows a warning on first download. Choose More info, then Run anyway.
We would rather tell you that here than have you discover it mid-install. It is on the list; a certificate is a real cost against a $5.99 product and it hasn't been bought yet.
No, and it's worth being clear about. ChromaLayer measures nothing and produces no ICC profile. It changes how your screen looks to you — that's the whole job.
The temperature control moves channel gains toward a Planckian locus; it does not measure your panel's actual white point, so "6500 K" here is a position on a curve, not a claim about your display.
They adjust the same output, so running them together stacks two color changes and the result gets hard to predict. If you use Night Light or f.lux, you may want to turn them off while using ChromaLayer.
The color transform is applied by the Windows compositor, not by ChromaLayer redrawing your screen. The app itself is a single tray process whose main ongoing work is the 5-second watchdog check.
We haven't published benchmark numbers because we haven't measured them properly, and a made-up figure is worth less than nothing.
Checkout runs through Dodo Payments and the key arrives by email. Enter it in ChromaLayer under License to activate. Downloads and updates come from the public GitHub Releases repository.
