Fun With Transparent Screen Backgrounds 450
herberts writes "Looks like the amusement factor of 'transparent' screen background is getting bigger and bigger. The french Mac fan site Mac Bidouille opened up a dedicated part of their web site where fans can post shots of their transparent backgrounds." Other great transparent background shots can be found at Flickr.
Wow... (Score:3, Insightful)
Very cool (Score:5, Insightful)
And it has to be said: These people have way too much time on their hands!
Live, with a webcam? (Score:3, Insightful)
Not likely to work well (Score:5, Insightful)
Looks good in 2D not in 3 (Score:3, Insightful)
1) You really need to use a laptop because shifting a CRT monitor or even an LCD panel is tough, flicking it down is easy.
2) Try to match the resolution of the camera to the screen size otherwise you'll have to stretch it to get it to fit right. Even then it won't look right because it only looks right from one position.
3) Get a app that lets you tint and alter the gamma of the photos. My digital camera's white balance just didn't create the same yucky yellow tint that my office strip lights have. Couldn't match it at all.
4) Admit that honestly, if what's behind your PC monitor is a dusty cube wall it's probably not worth looking at anyway, and no, you won't fool anyone.
Re:Wow... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Oh gesh... (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Wow... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:how ? (Score:2, Insightful)
That really defeats the point (Score:3, Insightful)
Find a few that make you suspcious, and I'm sure a lot of people will point out why they were not done in PS.
Re:how ? (Score:2, Insightful)
But this gives me an idea: why doesn't somebody photoshop a picture of himself, with a transparent teletubby-style screen on his belly. Oh, and the camera would be positioned rather high, looking down....
Trompe L'oeil (Score:3, Insightful)
What if it's on a wireless connection? (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Very cool (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:how ? (Score:3, Insightful)
-Put camera on tripod
-Take picture without computer in frame
-Put computer in place with the desktop set to a solid green color
-Load Photoshop and layer the images together with the "computer in place" image on top
-Cut out the screen's solid green so the image underneath shows through
-Adjust the image behind to be slightly offset and mess up the coloring a bit to fool people who fall for stuff like that
-Flatten and enjoy
For the especially dedicated, you could take a screengrab of the mac desktop and load that rather than removing the green color so you get a better image.
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Ahh, it appears.. (Score:4, Insightful)
This kind of reminds me of that HP photo/camera commercial, where that fellow snags frames out of the air, capturing screen shots from live motion in the foreground and background with each one he grabs.
Re:Very cool (Score:4, Insightful)
When your laptop screen is all white, you're looking directly at the backlight.
Re:Rene Magritte did this long ago... (Score:2, Insightful)
Unless, by "Great War", you were referring to some sort of cultural revolution.