photo of laptop with left hand are used as desktop image

bring up calculator

point with right hand

take photo

;) This is why the calculator doesn't look correctly square with the laptop

I've seen this illusion b4.... the calculator and the fingers were taken in a photograph and placed on the computer as wallpaper. Then the 2 hands were taken in the picture with the computer wallpaper there too. BUT the fingers of the guys hand was covered.... SMART HUH!

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HOW THE HELL DID HE GET HIS THUMB OUT OF THE DESKTOP THEN?

Thats really easy, take a pic of your left hand in front of your computer pretending to hold something. Then set that as your desktop, open calculator over the top then take another photo of you pointing to the desktop. thats how the thumb is going above the screen - its a photo of the screen!

I can see it was photshopped, tis impossible to do the whole thing by illusion, see how his laft arm extaends out of the screen area? Well, tell me how a desktop can do that? If you just took a pic of his hand in front of the screen, his arm would get cut off at the edges of the screen, the only way to this is to photoshop his arm in where the screen ends.

also, notice how the calculator is not aligned with the edges of the screen? that also shows it was photshopped in. So instead of doing the illusion thing, he fabricated the whole thing. not bad, but not flawless either

you can se many other points that show it was photshopped

Everybody has it soooo wrong, because in the first picture his thumb sticks out of the desktop, so he can't have set his hand as the background image! And if that's the case, where did the rest of his arm come from?

You guys are looking way too far into this... he probably just took a picture of his hand out like its holding something and pointed with the other hand and then took a screenshot of the calculator and added it as a new layer in photoshop and dragged the layer of his hand underneath the calculator layer.... fools.

THE WHOLE THING IS THE desktop. and he's pointing at it

To Tony Walmsley: what duz ur comment have anything to do with anything?

Ok For those who still don't know/understand how it is done. First imagine there is no right hand pointing.. this should be easy.. then imagine the calculator application is not open.. I am going in reverse chronological order so actually once we have the left hand in place, we would open calculator and drag it on the left hand. Now what you see is a simple image of a left hand pretending to hold something in front of your roomate's laptop (you have a desktop on which the calculator application is running :)
and getting such a image just needs an ordinary camera. SO, THE TRICK IS THAT THE CALCULATOR IS RUNNING ON THE FINAL IMAGE (YOUR DESKTOP'S MONITOR) AND NOT ON THE LAPTOP

jesus lads - real easy. have a photo taken of your laptop with the calculator on it, then take another photo of your hands as if positioned over the calculator. in photoshop layers just rub away the fingers, hand... to reveal the calculator. probably only take a couple of layers and then merge them into one pic.

anonEmouse and Emmy are right. It's not that complicated.
And it was already said at the beginning that it was NOT photoshopped.

I´ve seen the place where you buy those calculators...

heres the explanation that the photographer said was correct:

"Okay kids:
1- take pic of wall and make it a transparent screen
2- put left hand in front of computer like you are holding something, take pic, and put it on your screen.
3- drag calculator in front of left hand (picture on computer), point with right hand, take picture.
4- crop the pic so that you can't see the edge of the computer screen.
5- post on flickr and impress your friends"

cool, i did one just like that!

oooh!!! i just got it! thats really simple i should try that one day

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Its simple. They printed out a calculator, taped it to their hand, and held it in front of the computer. Jeez.

Guys what he did was print a picture of the mac calculator and then he put his hand with the picture in it. Then he pointed at it and took the picture. Its that simple. :p

maybe its a..... nahhhhhh

oh for goodness sake. not everything is photoshopped you know. use your brain. his desktop wallpaper is a picture of his hand infront of his pc. then all hes got to do is put the calculator on top of the picture of his hand. your all rubbish

you do realise im 9 and figured that it was the desktop with the picture of the hand attached.

he held a calculater


DUH
im 9 and figured it out

no wait... its the backround

the whole picture is the computer desktop. he took a picture of his hand in front of the computer screen (and everything around it) making it look like his arm is coming out of the screen. he set it as his backround then dragged a calculator on his hand. then he took a picture of his right hand pointing at the calculator. there was no photoshop involved. the whole picture is his desktop.

The very first comment, as well as several others throughout tell exactly how it was done (some in more detail than others). Why is it that so many people have such a narrow point of view? All you folks want to do is pretend you are smarter than you are ("oh it's just photoshop blah blah blah..."). Just take your time and read, and understand. People like you go through life without seeing the world for what it really is!

This is the easiest ting in the world to do.
u just hold your hand out infront of the screen,
take a picture of it, set the picture as your wallpaper,
open calculator and place the window in front of the hand, point your hand at one of the buttons and take another photo.

the hand and the calculator are in front of the screen

OMFG PEOPLE ITS IMPOSSSIBLE TO NOT HAVE THIS PHOTOSHOPPED! All these wallpaper explinations and such

1) dont make any sense

2) are impossible!

People yr idiots it was photoshopped

He's holding a picture of a calculator - because it's at an angle on the second picture more than the first.

It works like this......just go to your TV (preferably a CRT) and close one eye. Put your hand in front of the TV screen and move backwards and forwards. With one eye your brain cannot detect the depth. A camera has only one eye! Hence taking a picture makes it look like the hand etc is IN the screen. The rest of the arm etc aren't in front of the screen at all so aren't subject to the same illusion.

ya... i would agree that the entire pic is the desktop and the right hand is pointing on the screen... you can notice the edge of the crt in the right side of the second pic

maybe he:
1. opened up calculator
2. took a screen shot
3. printed it out
4. cut out the calculator
5. held the calculator in his hand in front of the screen
6. took the picture

Wow fools The whole pic is the desktop DON'T YOU CLOSED MINDED PEOPLE GET IT. In the second pic the caculator looks cricked but it isn't the only thing is that the picture of the computer wit the hand infront of it is crooked. Listen to the first coment and his folowers THEY ARE RIGHT!

The 2nd pic is mine... here's how I did it:

1) Took a pic of the screen + surrounding desk area, no "calculator"

2) Made that pic my background

3) Took another pic with my hand, as if holding the calculator

4) Made *that* my desktop background

5) Took yet another pic with the calculator located where my hand was in the pic

6) Made *that* my desktop background

7) Took 1 last pic of me pointing to the 5 key on the calculator

8) Cropped the sides so you can't tell the desk itself is part of the image


It was a while ago that I did it, but I believe that correctly describes the process.

ok anonomous is completely right>

Anonymous

the whole picture is the computer desktop. he took a picture of his hand in front of the computer screen (and everything around it) making it look like his arm is coming out of the screen. he set it as his backround then dragged a calculator on his hand. then he took a picture of his right hand pointing at the calculator. there was no photoshop involved. the whole picture is his desktop.