

Personally I think Ascii Art is the coolest just on a purely geek level (above screenshot is this effect on the Mac Finder logo, below screenshot is the ‘Line Overlay’ effect on the Finder logo). Here’s the full list of the additional hidden visual effects you can enable, 24 in total:Īs RobG at points out, you can preview each of these effects by opening the quartz files in Quick Look. In each visual effect that you want to use within iChat and Photo Booth, simply find and delete the array code that follows ‘ExcludedHosts’ that refers to excluding Photo Booth and iChat (see screenshot), it’s usually near the top of the file:Īfter you delete those lines, save the files and launch iChat or Photo Booth to have the new effects as options. The macbook photo booth effects is a popular app that allows users to take photos and apply various filters. Mail: Creates a new email with the picture or video attached. Choose how you want to share them by clicking the Share button. Next you’ll need to drag the files you want to use into something like TextWrangler or another property-list editing capable text editor. Select the picture or video thumbnails you wish to share in the Photo Booth software on your Mac. If that second folder doesn’t exist you can just create it for the same effect. Make a copy of those files, and copy them to the following location:

You can use some preset replacement backgrounds. Quit out of Photo Booth and Messages app before beginning. You can use the Photo Booth app on your Mac to simulate a green screen with any stable background. Enabling Hidden Visual Effects in Photo Booth for Mac OS X
