This is pretty off-topic, but is an excuse for why I haven’t been blogging for the last 5 days. Thursday was my birthday, and I decided to take Friday off to have a day to just relax. So, over the weekend I decided to build a blue-screen - a backdrop for digital photography allowing me to easily remove the background in Photoshop. For around $30 I was able to build a perfect blue-screen backdrop using PVC piping and cloth:

And I am now able to create pictures like this:
Before:

After:

And:

Sure, it’s not perfect, but given some more time in Photoshop, I’ll be able to do some nice chroma-keying.

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