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o Click on the Effects button on the right. You will see arrows appear to
the right and left of the effects button, as well as four small squares in the
center. Each square represents a set of PhotoBooth special effects.
o Go ahead and click through the four buttons to see how they would
change a photo if you clicked the camera. Go ahead and try to take some
photos with these effects.
o Click on particular effect you’d like to try, and your image will appear
that way in the center window. Click on the red camera icon. When you
click on the camera, you will see a “3, 2, 1…”. The photo is taken at the
end of the countdown. The photo will appear in the space at the bottom.
If you don’t like the photo, you can delete it by clicking on the “x” in the
corner of the photo.
o Click on the last square or use the arrow
pointing right to arrive at the last set of effects.
Here you will see the prompt, “Drag Backdrop
Here” on each of the eight surrounding panes.
o In this illustration, you see that backdrop
photos have already been placed in the
surrounding panes. The grey colored panes
you’ll see are ready to accept photos.
o These photos can come from almost any
source: iPhoto, images from Google images, jpg’s on your hard drive,
even photos from PhotoBooth can be dragged up into a pane. (If all the
panes are full, you can drag a new photo into any pane and replace it.)
o Once you drag an image into a pane, click on the pane again to activate
it. Once you’ve done that, your image becomes “live” in the center pane.
You will see a prompt asking you to ‘Step out of the frame’. You can
either get up and stand out of the way, or just lean to the side, and down,
until your image does not appear in the window.
o Once you have stepped out of the frame, PhotoBooh will place your
image in the frame and indicate “Background Detected”. If you are using
a laptop, do not move the computer or change the tilt of the screen. If
you notice that your image is distorted, you can reset the background