Chapter 7. Using Video Toys and Tools: Photo Booth, QuickTime, DVD Player, and Front Row

In This Chapter

In this chapter, you get a chance to try out some entertainment-oriented applications that come with Mac OS X Leopard—a photo effects toy called Photo Booth, the QuickTime media player, DVD Player, and a “portable theater” called Front Row.

Photo Booth

Photo Booth is a fun application that works with a web camera, such as Apple’s iSight or a FireWire DV video camera, to take still images. You can use Photo Booth to take a normal photo, or you can apply a visual effect to produce a photo with surreal colors, distortion, or animation effects, as shown in Figure 7.1.

Figure 7.1 Choose an image ...

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