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Photobooth: First impressions
I finally got my brand spankin' new iMac yesterday, and it was well worth the wait. The biggest feature is, of course, Front Row what I will be posting about later today. Front Row isn't the only new application living on my iMac.Photobooth is a simple application that is designed to take photos using the built in iSight, and apply different filters to said photo. MacZealots has a good tutorial on how to use Photobooth (it isn't too hard).
My initial thoughts on Photobooth are as follows:
- It is fun to use
- You can only export the photos to iPhoto or Mail (or use them as your account picture/iChat photo). It would be nice if you could just save them to the desktop
- Did I mention it is fun?
UPDATE: Eagle eyed readers tell you that you can just drag the photos to your desktop. Brilliant! And yes, I go to sad parties.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jamie Marshall said 5:05PM on 11-01-2005
Actually, you can save the photos to your Desktop simply by dragging them there from PhotoBooth.
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Oliver said 5:45PM on 11-01-2005
not at any of the parties i go to...
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Scott McNulty said 5:06PM on 11-01-2005
Really, Jamie? I tried that and it didn't work! When I get home I'll try it again and if you're right I'll update the post and give you a star.
Thanks!
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token said 5:07PM on 11-01-2005
you must attend very, very sad parties. ;)
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Zoli said 5:12PM on 11-01-2005
You definitely can do that I sent the pics of me from the apple store g5 to my powerbook no problem... just do a spotlight search for 'photo' and you'll see all the pics taken
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token said 5:09PM on 11-01-2005
Oh, and by the way, you can just drag the photo from photo booth onto the desktop.
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Tony said 5:13PM on 11-01-2005
We do something similar for parties, except with video. We do weddings, baby luau's (very big here in Hawaii), and graduation parties.
http://www.idoguestbook.com
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Geofox said 6:13PM on 11-01-2005
Tony, Nice Spam Comment
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Sam Waudby said 6:20PM on 11-01-2005
If you click File > Reveal in Finder, it shows how they are saved in a folder "Photo Booth" in your Pictures folder.
Another titbit: if you have obtained a copy by nefarious means, you might note that it works with any type of USB Webcam. My old Logitech Zoom camera worked immediately. Very thoughtful of Apple!
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Richard Hale said 7:00PM on 11-01-2005
We just had our first play with Photo Booth tonight. Check out our pics on Flickr if you like over at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_rich/sets/1270440/ This app is great fun. Can't wait to use this at Christmas parties!
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manyhighways said 7:10PM on 11-01-2005
Is this a 20" iMac? How long did it take to arrive after your ordered it? I've been waiting for them to appear in the Apple store in NYC and they're still not available. In fact, they only had one 17" even on display when I was there last week.
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Rajiv Perera said 8:08PM on 11-01-2005
When would we see a photobooth for PowerMac/iSight owners? Similar to Comic-life, this is another really fun program to have!
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Joshua Hernandez said 3:28AM on 11-02-2005
I have it running on my mini. I love it is so awesome. It works perfect with my isight.
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Sham The Sam said 4:05AM on 11-02-2005
Just to clarify: the Apple product is "Photo Booth" there is also "PhotoBooth" the Mac photo printing software by Stunt Software http://www.stuntsoftware.com/software/PhotoBooth/
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Inkhead said 2:45PM on 11-02-2005
Just wanted to share the fact that now when you take a video snapshot while in iChat it now uses the the Photo Booth 3 second countdown and flash!
How cute!
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