I would just take two pictures and cut the hand out. Then a drop shadow…5 minutes in photoshop. Then another 5 hours getting it perfect.

Apparently it’s created without any photoshop trickery….

I would screen print the calculator, cut it out and hold it in front of the computer. Easy. Same withe the iPod.

@rams: yes, because that would appear to be glowing like the things on the screen do. NOT!

It seems to be modified with image editor. There is a little black stroke at the edge of the hand, like being cropped from another image.

However, it’s very creative to think of that

on the second his cand is up his sleeve and is holdin it behind the hand

1st one, screen within a screen trick. E.g., the left hand is a desktop image (so as the laptop screen behind it). That is, take a photo of your left hand (holding nothing) over your laptop screen, put this as a desktop image.

Open calculator, put it over this desktop image. Use your real right hand and press it. Take a photo.

2nd one… only the sleeve is real. the hand and iPod are on the screen.

It’s easy to see that when the calculator app is open, the menubar should show Calculator. Instead it shows Finder, so the 3 calculator buttons should appear greyed-out. Moreover the distortion of the screen doesn’t show in the Calculator window.
So I think the guy took a photo of his hands in front of the computer screen and then pasted the Calculator window and finally used an image editor to mask the unwanted parts.
That’s a good job but he should have paid more attention as to which app was open on his desktop.

this is kinda stupid.. lol.. not kinda.. like.. really stupid.. talk about fake