Microsoft Bent Backwards To Document The Windows 10 Wallpaper. Too Bad You’ll Only See It Once

June 25, 2015 by Udi Tirosh 13 Comments

With windows 10 release just around the corner, Microsoft made a huge celebration about its upcoming new default wallpaper.

The video below describes how the team created that photos and trust me no effort was spared. It has special glass made, haze, projection and camera mapping, and even special Lasers. The process actually is quite fascinating.

So this is no surprise that Microsoft dedicated a whole two minutes of document the making of the photos.

Microsoft describes the image as “looking at the logo itself as a portal that’s allowing us to look into space”

Now you may ridicule that image, but it will be the image that tens of millions of people are going to see when they first start windows 10. Tens of millions. (I mean, Windows XP’s wallpaper was considered to be the most viewed photo of in the world). Too bad that the first action of users would probably be to swap this annoying wallpaper image.

Here is a more focused look if you needed one:

[Windows 10 Hero Desktop Image | Behind the Scenes (h/t Stephen)]

About Udi Tirosh

Udi Tirosh is the Founder and Editor in Chief of DIYPhotography, he is also a photographer, a relentless entrepreneur, a prolific inventor and a dad, not necessarily in that order

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Edie Howe

*sigh* I would REALLY like to watch the video without the gods-damned smartphone video ad stomping all over it. What ticks me off is there is NO WAY to turn off the sound of the ad!

No love,
Me.
- Rob
  
  Funny, I get no ads whatsoever. Maybe you should try to add AdBlock to your browser.
  - Edie Howe
    
    Meh. Can’t be bothered, usually. I understand that’s how lots of websites pay the bills, even though I don’t use them on my blog. I can live with ads, just not ads that compete with video content.
- udi tirosh
  
  Hi Edie,
  there should be no ads on the video, is it a youtube ad or one from the site?
  - Edie Howe
    
    Not on the video: On the DIY sidebar. It was for a Verizon Droid smartphone, and it’s the win-win-win ad. It’s right below the “GET FREE INSPIRATION, NEWS, TUTORIALS AND REVIEWS!” box on the right. It plays, then goes away, and then comes back, and goes away.
    
    Edited to add: Right now it’s–oh, wait, it’s the video again! It’ll go back to the photo of the camera again, no doub–yep, there’s the rangefinder-kinda camera again.
    - udi tirosh
      
      thanks for the help, let me investigate….
Joshua Post

Why such hate for a wallpaper?
- Grant Watkins
  
  Because it’s hip to hate Microsoft
- Joshua Post
  
  Apparently
Jimmy

Nice wallpaper . I hope the os will be as good.
Ed Rhodes

needs more cats
Aankhen

Microsoft dedicated a whole two minutes of document the making of the photos.

the image that tens of millions of people are going to see when they first start window 10

But what do the words mean?
Satongi

lol, someone took down the video! those copyright claims are full of shit