Photo Booth is one of OS X 10.5 ’s new apps — novel , at least , to those who do n’t own a Mac with a built - in iSight , as these machine have had it for a while now . In Leopard , though , Photo Booth has a new musical mode — burst mood . Burst mode read four quick pictures in succession , and then displays the result as a individual multi - paned look-alike in the Photo Booth window . While you may have played around with this feature , here are a twosome thing you may not have known about it .
First , if you employ the iPhoto push button on one of these four - control board images , you ’ll wind up with one four - paned image in iPhoto . But what if you want each image that makes up the montage ? It turn out that Photo Booth in reality does store four photograph when you take a burst mode photo — you could determine them all in the Photo Booth folder within your user ’s
secondly , if you ’re look at the four - control panel epitome in the independent Photo Booth window , clicking on any single control panel will zoom that panel to fill the Photo Booth windowpane ; tick it again to zoom back out to the four - back breaker view . You ’ll even see a fancy reflective - glass - like flash as the images zoom into and out of the frame of reference . ( Oddly , this animation is one of the few I ’ve ever found in OS X that you ca n’t slack down with the Shift key . )
Finally , if you practice File - > Export , Photo Booth will export the image as an invigorate GIF . you could then habituate this animated GIF as your iChat buddy icon . In iChat , select your user picture and select Edit Picture , get through Choose and voyage to the recreate GIF you just created , then tick Set . Other 10.5 drug user ( and those using third - party AIM guest that support animize pal icons ) will then see your four - picture stage set . ( mark that display liven up buddy icons is incapacitate by nonremittal ; to enable it , open iChat ’s Preferences and check the Animate Buddy Pictures alternative in the General tab . )
And remember , if you want to take a Photo Booth picture immediately — short-circuit the three - secondment delay — just hold down the Option key before pressing the Camera push button , as explain in this steer .
Updated 11:42amPST : Added information on export the image to an animated GIF .
