I fun little thing I found when messing around with my photobooth and iChat backgrounds. When iChat/photobooth asks you to “please step out of the frame” simply cover your iSight camera with our hand. Consequently the iChat background will be your silhouette. Optimally a white background, low lighting and holding you hand about a centimeter or two from your iSight make for the best. I takes a little tweaking and playing with to get it perfect. Try it out!
Here’s a handy trick submitted by Hamish:
When using a background in photobooth or iChat, always stand against a blank wall, not one with posters on, or thats colour is too close to your skins own so you get a more accurate dynamic backdrop and less “fuzz”.
Here’s another neat Photobooth trick.
Take a “4-up” picture (which takes four pics one after the other like burst mode, as described in a previous post). then select the picture in the selector at the bottom of Photobooth. Then go File -> Export. choose a “filename.gif” and hit OK. The 4-frame burst photo will export as an animated gif which you can use as your iChat avatar, or on a web page! neat. Apparently this also works with video files in Photobooth, however I’ve not had much luck with it working. Perhaps someone can help with that one…
This is cool fun, there’s a new “burst mode” button in photobooth that snaps off four shots every second or so to create a little “action” photo. I had to give it a try! also check out the previous post about the additional iChat/Photobooth effects you can download!
Having fun taking pictures with the new leopard ichat/photobooth effects? Want more?
Well the company that brought you more ichat smileys, also just made More iChat (also works with photobooth) Effects. I recently downloaded these effects and are very happy with them. I have been waiting for extra iChat effect downloads. I hope developers start to produce more ichat and photobooth effects. This new application allows you to install 24 new ichat and photobooth effects. Right now it is on the apple.com as one of the top downloads.
Here are the links to download the extra ichat/photobooth effects:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/email_chat/moreichateffects.html
These are great new effects and I hope you like them.
