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Fun With Transparent Screen Backgrounds

Posted by Zonk on from the early-in-the-am-on-easter-morning dept.

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.

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  1. Re:how ? by mboverload · · Score: 5, Informative

    .... They take a picture, put it as their backround, and then put the computer where the picture was taken. You seriously didn't figure that out?

  2. Re:how ? by frovingslosh · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think that's how most were done, but it looks like a few may ghave been "done" by taking a picture, putting the monitor in place and putting a solid color on the background (with icons and such on top of that) and then taking a picture of that. The second picture was then merged with the first in Photoshop or a similar application by effects that mimic cromakey. The picture is only a picture, the actual view never existed.

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