Mac OS X/MacOS: Capturing yourself in Photo Booth without being mirrored
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/04
Quite a while back I wrote [WayBack] Viewing an USB camera on Mac OS X without mirroring.
I still use the solution Quick Camera mentioned there, but also found a solution that works with the Photo Booth application:
Just made a QTZ to counteract the annoying mirror-image which is considered “normal” in Photo Booth. I borrowed a patch from the “Effect.qtz” which is located inside the Photo Booth.app, and I edited it in Quartz Composer . Please note that this will NOT affect the mirror-image which occurs using other effects; they will STILL be mirror images of your subject.
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This patch fixes the preview, photos AND video. This patch fixes the SOURCE of the video, not the resulting output images.
[WayBack] UN-MIRROR yourself in Photo Booth – patch | MacRumors Forums
Steps to manually create the Quartz file are at [WayBack] Camera question: Why is the camera a mirror effect? | Mac Forums
So I learned about Quarts Composer and composition plugins which are basically a visual programming language:
- [WayBack] Quartz Composer – Wikipedia
- [WayBack] Creating your first quartz composition with Quartz Composer (for Mac) – Serato Support
- [WayBack] Kineme Quartz Composition Repository | Kineme
- [WayBack] Kineme | Quartz Composer Stuff
- [WayBack] Preview Quartz Composer (.qtz) files in Safari – Mac OS X Hints
This is unlike another QC that got killed.
–jeroen
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