how to increase photo booth resolution?

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how to increase photo booth resolution?

photo booth is taking pics at 640x480 only. i think the macbook isight is 2 MP. that means the resolution should be more. any help?

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Jul 25, 2008 1:04 AM

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roam

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Oct 15, 2008 1:36 AM in response to AceNeerav

Hello Ace

You can do it using iMovie as an intermediary. See the following link to bring the PhotoBooth into iMovie. I would add when selecting the resolution you would choose the higher 1024 x 768 resolution as you desire.

iSight with iMovie by CMCSK

Then after creating a few frames in a short clip, read the following link about how to create a photo from video in imovie by Appleman1958

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AceNeerav Author

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Oct 14, 2008 8:43 PM in response to AceNeerav

bump!

i wonder if this will put the thread on top of the forum!

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AceNeerav Author

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Oct 15, 2008 5:25 AM in response to roam

hello. thanks for your reply. i don't want to increase the resolution of an already taken picture by scaling it. that deteriorates the image. i want that the image themselves are taken at a higher resolution. with no direct way to do this, i guess the camera is only of 640x480 = 307200 = 0.3 Mega pixels.

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roam

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Oct 15, 2008 5:37 AM in response to AceNeerav

The PhotoBooth camera is a simple uncomplicated camera. Just look at the size of the hole and you can guess the CCD (if it is a CCD) would be only about 1 mm big. You can't get blood out of a stone, any more than you can get hi resolution images from a cheap camera. So use it for what it is, but if you want better quality images, you'll need to buy a better quality camera.