My first iMac is 1 year old. I have always had "pixellated" backdrops in Photo Booth, but now I see that I don't even have the button anymore to choose any backdrops. Does anybody know where it went? And, no, it's not under the rug or anything 🙂
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Hi,
The Effects and Backdrops are Quartz files (they take the camera feed and work their magic)
They are held in the System/Library/Compositions Folder and are used by iChat and the Photo Booth app.
Do you have the same issue in iChat ?
So...
The Compositions folder could have been emptied somehow.
It could have been moved so that Photo Booth cannot "see" it.
Photo Booth could have a fault.
Do you have the Quartz Files ?
9:15 PM Saturday; September 17, 2011
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Hi Ralph,
Thanks for answering. Yes, I see all of my .qtz files in that folder. I never use chat, so I wouldn't know about that. What should I do to get those .qtz files active in Photo Booth ?
China
HI,
I was hoping that you did use iChat and could tell me the Effects and Backdrops worked from there.
Lets try deleting com.apple.PhotoBooth.plist
You will find this my navigating to your Home Folder/Library/Preferences
(in Lion use the Finder's Go Menu > Go to Folder and enter ~/Library/Preferences )
Drag this file to the Trash and restart Photo Booth.
This will lose the markers to the Pictures and Video already created although the originals will still be your Home Folder/Pictures/Photo Booth (Meaning the "tray" of previous items in Photo Booth will be empty)
8:24 PM Sunday; September 18, 2011
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"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images." No, Seriously
Hi Ralph,
I went into that folder, as you described and did not find that particular file. Then, out of curiosity, I just opened Photo Booth and voila! my "Effects" button is now there. Thanks so much!
China
Glad you have it working.
Thanks for the points.
8:03 PM Tuesday; September 20, 2011
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"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images." No, Seriously
Ralph,
I hope you can help, Photo Booth works fine in iChat under 64 and 32 bit, but using the stand alone program I get the face tracking (hearts and birds) but no backdrops while 64 bit, and just the opposite in 32 bit mode. I have also deleted the prefence .plist.
Thanks,
Felix
Hi,
There seem to have been some changes to the way Photo Booth works with the Quartz files that make up the Effects.
I have some Demo ones from iChatFX
Some of these only display the effect in Photo Booth (minus the person)
I have not worked out why they react differently to the same files which play OK in iChat.
As you have done I have tried both 32 Bit and 64 bit in Photo Booth with no change in behaviour.
8:03 PM Monday; November 21, 2011
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iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.2)
G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
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"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images." No, Seriously
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