# Is there any way of changing the screen's brightness directly from a block?
**URL:** https://forum.makecode.com/t/is-there-any-way-of-changing-the-screens-brightness-directly-from-a-block/20616
**Category:** Arcade
**Tags:** make, art, graphics-and-math, extension, game
**Created:** [June 14, 2023, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/is-there-any-way-of-changing-the-screens-brightness-directly-from-a-block/20616 "2023-06-14T16:51:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@frandev](https://forum.makecode.com/u/frandev)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2023, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/is-there-any-way-of-changing-the-screens-brightness-directly-from-a-block/20616/1 "2023-06-14T16:51:04Z")
I really need this for a project, so if you can, you can help me create an extension that does this.
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### Author:  [@randomuser](https://forum.makecode.com/u/randomuser)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2023, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/is-there-any-way-of-changing-the-screens-brightness-directly-from-a-block/20616/2 "2023-06-14T17:04:54Z")
The computer screen or the console?
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### Author:  [@frandev](https://forum.makecode.com/u/frandev)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2023, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/is-there-any-way-of-changing-the-screens-brightness-directly-from-a-block/20616/3 "2023-06-14T17:17:28Z")
The console.
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### Author:  [@randomuser](https://forum.makecode.com/u/randomuser)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2023, 5:38pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/is-there-any-way-of-changing-the-screens-brightness-directly-from-a-block/20616/4 "2023-06-14T17:38:52Z")
The way I’ve done that is using the color fading extension and subtracting some amount from every single rgb value- basically, moving them all towards black. Then to raise brightness, i would add some, moving them towards white!
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### Author:  [@frandev](https://forum.makecode.com/u/frandev)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2023, 6:37pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/is-there-any-way-of-changing-the-screens-brightness-directly-from-a-block/20616/5 "2023-06-14T18:37:19Z")
Thank you!