I stumbled across this fun idea the other day, something to play about with if you're bored.
How to make your monitor display "transparent". I'm sure you can figure how it's done, but if not.....
The process is pretty simple.
1. With digital camera and tripod (if you have a tripod great, I didn't bother for my quick effort shown below), take a photo of your monitor, then move your monitor out of the way and take a pic of the background from the same position.
2. Import the two pics on separate layers in Xtreme (or Photoshop etc. However, you'll have to figure the rest out for yourself or go here for a tutorial http://www.photut.com/tutorial-trans...ft-screen.html)
3. Make the layer with the monitor pic transparent and uneditable.
4. Crop the background pic to fit the monitor screen. (I used a rectangle to get the basic size, then tweaked it to fit precisely by converting to a shape and adjusting as necesssary.)
5. Export crop at the resolution of your desktop (1280x1024x96ppi, in my case).
6. Set the exported pic as your desktop wallpaper.
7. Take photo of your masterpiece and say, "What a complete waste of time!"
There are some funky examples here http://soviyet.blogspot.com/2007/02/...e-hosting.html
Here's my quick and yes, dirty effort (the computer's in my workshop), it took about 10 minutes to do. (Before you ask, it is my wallpaper not just a pic pasted in another pic of my monitor.)
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