Is there a fix for my imac monitor burning highlights into blue shapes on my screen?

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Is there a fix for my imac monitor burning highlights into blue shapes on my screen?

Whenever I leave an image or window open on my imac for longer than 5 minutes the white boxes or white in the images burn a blue shape onto my screen. It is apparent in every program and finder, but overly so in photoshop. Is there a fix for this or do I need to take my computer in? I've tried changing my display settings to AdobeRGB 1998 and turning down the brightness but neither fixed it.

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on May 19, 2014 2:36 PM

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rkaufmann87

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May 19, 2014 3:47 PM in response to GavCJ

Post a screen shot of your display.

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den.thed

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May 19, 2014 4:11 PM in response to GavCJ

Image persistence on LCDs is not permanent like screen burn on CRTs.

Have a look at > Avoiding image persistence on Apple LCD displays

Personally I use a Hot Corner to Sleep my displays when I get up or when I'm not looking something. I also have the Display Sleep timer set to 10 minutes, just in case I get up and forget to use the Hot Corner.

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Jun 2, 2014 3:25 PM in response to den.thed

In my case any use results in ghost/persistent image. While the sleep function would protect the display when the computer is not in use, I can't just keep the computer in sleep mode all the time (it would be an expensive dust catcher then). Anyone have any other thoughts on this? My 24" iMac doesn't do this.

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