Capturing Pictures with iSight and Photo Booth

Most new Macintosh computers include an iSight digital camera that's built into the top of the computer screen, like a cyclops' eye, watching your every move. To take pictures with iSight, you can use the Photo Booth program.

The Photo Booth program icon looks a lot like the curtain you would close in a coin-operated photo booth, and that's the idea. No quarters are required for these photos, though—you've already spent many hundreds of quarters to buy your Mac. You can take pictures with Photo Booth and store these images in your slideshow folder:

  1. Click the Photo Booth icon on the Dock. (If you can't find the Photo Booth icon on the Dock, look for the icon in the Applications folder in the Finder window.) ...

Get My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.