Once you have captured your image with Photo Booth, your Mac gives you other fun options. Now the real fun begins. You can summon your inner mad scientist and apply a series of warping effects. Here’s how:
- Click the Effects button.
A Brady Bunch–like grid appears, with each square revealing a different effect, some silly and some creepy.
How goofy (or creepy) can you get? Applying effects in Photo Booth. - Click a square to preview the potential effect in a much larger window.
Or, if you don’t like this set of effects, click the arrows on the screen to display a new set. You can make it look as though the picture was taken with a thermal camera or an X-ray, or drawn with a colored pencil. You can turn the image into pop art worthy of Warhol or make it glow radioactively. You can apply a chipmunk effect or a love-struck image in which red hearts float around your head. And you can place yourself in a mirror image reminiscent of the Doublemint Twins from the old gum commercials.
When you click some effects (such as bulge, squeeze, or twirl), you see a slider that you can drag with the mouse to tweak the level of distortion.
- Now you can proceed by doing one of the following:
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To choose the previewed effect, click the Camera button to snap the picture.
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To see another effect in this set, click the Effects button again and make your selection. Once more, click the Camera button when you’re ready to capture the image.
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To revert to the normal view, click Effects and then the middle of this tic-tac-toe grid. Again, click Camera when you’re ready.
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