"this is a photograph trick. 1st- with a tripod take a picture of your desk without the computer on it. 2nd- take a picture now with the computer on the desk. 3rd - open both pictures in photoshop and paste one of the pictures over the other as a new layer. 4th- make a selection of the area of the computer desktop and copy it from the image that has no computer. 5th- the image might be skewed due to screen positioning. Use the free transform funtion and drag all corners of the selection to match the picture canvas. 6th- use this image as the desktop in the computer. 7th with camera still in position, take a picture and the illusion will be created. voila!!" - ariel wollinger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Okay, I had to sign up just to post this to ariel. Yes, they basically did that, but instead of making the image that way, they put the photo of the desk without the computer as their desktop wall paper, to create the illusion of a see through monitor. It's indeed a photograph tick but some of these pictures are really people who went through the trouble of taking a picture of the screenless desk and then making the ir picture that is now a wallpaper align with the stuff in the background." - Yoshikuni Kenta ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I knew it had to be fake.....