SocialStream !'s List: Facebook Related

• Hacking the Facebook Profile Photo

• There are a lot of fun things you can do pairing foreground cutout images with the background Facebook template. The first one I did was to create a sort of mini-living room for me to hang out in. Here’s a screenshot of my profile using this particular photo.

   

  I wanted to do a play on the little grey line and decided to try to create the illusion that I was hanging from it. I started by taking a photograph of me hanging from a doorway and then isolating the image. I then overlayed the photo on a longer version of the blank Facebook profile photo template.

   

  Here’s a look at that process and the final result:
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• Another fun foreground image I used was a colored in Giraffe. This gave my profile a fun look and because it pushed down the information in my left sidebar, a lot of negative space around my wall updates.
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