At 16:25 +1000 on 24/10/01, Dana Sibera wrote:

>I met a mac-mad fellow online a few months back who thought a pic I did
>in photoshop looked terribly fake (It's at
>http://www.theapplecollection.com/design/macproto/SubWallstreet.html ).

LOL...

>He went on to say he could always pick a faked picture... so I set that
>one up, showed him a few weeks later and he fell for it... I cackled a
>bit to myself and then proceeded to not take the pic  down :D. It's not
>a real mac - it's 2 real macs, an LC II case sitting on top of an LCIII
>and played with a bit in photoshop.

The only real giveaways - and these are not only subtle, but not for
certain either - are the faint lines on the side of the case toward the
front (you must have cloned these out, but they didn't totally go away) and
the "LC V" sticker, whose colour doesn't match the rest of the case too
well.

>dana (Apple wouldn't release something that ugly, would they?)

It actually looks a lot like a natural evolution of the IIsi, which made it
all the more believable...

p
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