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?

I suspect this little application will be a hit at parties.

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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Inkhead

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!

November 02 2005 at 2:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sham The Sam

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/

November 02 2005 at 4:04 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Joshua Hernandez

I have it running on my mini. I love it is so awesome. It works perfect with my isight.

November 02 2005 at 3:24 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rajiv Perera

When would we see a photobooth for PowerMac/iSight owners? Similar to Comic-life, this is another really fun program to have!

November 01 2005 at 8:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

manyhighways

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.

November 01 2005 at 6:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Richard Hale

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!

November 01 2005 at 6:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sam Waudby

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!

November 01 2005 at 6:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Geofox

Tony, Nice Spam Comment

November 01 2005 at 6:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tony

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

November 01 2005 at 5:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Zoli Honig

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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