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Apr
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Many of my Artistic Flickerite Friends have been sporting cool transparent displays on their notebooks (mainly Macs) so I thought it was about time I got one for my Sony Vaio;
I thought I may as well upgrade my Palm Pilot as well :
In case you're wondering : 1. using a tripod take a picture of where the laptop will be; 2. crop the image as tight as possible to the screen size and set it as the desktop on the laptop; 3. using the same exposure take another photo(from the same place) of the laptop with the desktop showing - this is the hard bit - getting the desktop image to line up with the background.
A couple of hints - 1. use an SLR if you have one - the difference between the viewfinder and lens on a point-and-shoot will mess the image alignment up; 2. try and get a 'normal' depth of field - otherwise the perspective will make it hard lining the image up; 3. Try and shoot the screen straight on so you don't have to deal with perspective (maybe a few degress off if you are shooting with a flash)
