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Is this a clever piece of Photoshopping?
The photo you are seeing is edited in Photoshop as far as cropping only, apart from that this photo is an unedited photo of Emily’s computer.
The idea was born (or stolen) from a post on Cheri’s website, which she had seen on Flickr.
So, how was it done?
Firstly, I chose Emily’s computer because hers has an LCD monitor which doesn’t take up a lot of desk real estate. Then I took two photos, one with the computer off the desk, then one with it on.
Without moving the camera off the tripod I then transferred the images to my computer where I layered the two photographs together. marked out the shape of the monitor, then deleted all other content from the image.
The next trick was to use the transform tool to skew the image back into a rectangular shape followed by some cropping.
I then saved the image onto my S drive which is available to all the computers on the network and opened it up on Emily’s computer, made it the wallpaper and then took this photograph.
Was it worth it? I think so.. Was it totally geeky? Fuck yeah!
