I just stumbled on this site and looks like there's a lot of you active so I'm hoping someone can help me with figuring out a challenge. I've seen this done on a friend's computer and he turned around and did it on mine a couple years back - so I don't think any plug-ins / add-on programs are required.
Challenge: Open a background application, such as Windows Media Player. Have a movie playing. Now open Photoshop (or possibly GIMP, but pretty sure it was Photoshop). Create or open an image. Now, here's where it gets shady. He entered a value (RGB?) and selected a tool (paintbrush?). He scribbled on the image and where he scribbled, you saw the background application. If the movie was playing you could see through the image, through photoshop, and view the application.
Anyone ever seen, read, or heard of this before? Any help would be appreciated. He showed me and at the time I was like wow, that's cool. It doesn't relate to anything I would do but thought it might be cool for cleaning up frames or video editing. Now I'm like how the heck did he do that and I can't find anything on the web remotely close to this.
EDIT: It was on a Windows XP Professional computer using Adobe Photoshop probably CS or CS2. Like mentioned above, it was a couple years ago so don't know versions. Also, slight possibility it was GIMP and not Photoshop - but I don't believe so. Also, might be a add-on or easter egg, but again I can't remember.
Challenge: Open a background application, such as Windows Media Player. Have a movie playing. Now open Photoshop (or possibly GIMP, but pretty sure it was Photoshop). Create or open an image. Now, here's where it gets shady. He entered a value (RGB?) and selected a tool (paintbrush?). He scribbled on the image and where he scribbled, you saw the background application. If the movie was playing you could see through the image, through photoshop, and view the application.
Anyone ever seen, read, or heard of this before? Any help would be appreciated. He showed me and at the time I was like wow, that's cool. It doesn't relate to anything I would do but thought it might be cool for cleaning up frames or video editing. Now I'm like how the heck did he do that and I can't find anything on the web remotely close to this.
EDIT: It was on a Windows XP Professional computer using Adobe Photoshop probably CS or CS2. Like mentioned above, it was a couple years ago so don't know versions. Also, slight possibility it was GIMP and not Photoshop - but I don't believe so. Also, might be a add-on or easter egg, but again I can't remember.
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