FaceBoof! App Reviews

i like it cause you can do so much with the pictures and face tracking, but when i tried to save it, or take a picture i clicked on something or other, and it erased all i did!

I bought this thinking that it would be better than photobooth, but I was very disappointed There are almost the exact same effects you are also backwards, where when you go left, then you go right on the screen There is nothing cool about this and isnt worth $9.00. Maybe $2... DO NOT BUY

In addition to face tracking, layers up to 3 effects and includes zooming, cropping and rotating of camera image. I like it! Save your complete set of customizations in a .FaceBoof file for later re-use.

Not as simple as Photo Booth but does a good job of exposing Quartz Filters to the non-developer. Anytime I need a few extra moments to do something productive, I sit the kid down in front of the iMac and let them fool around with it. Filters range from totally goofy to actually useful (rotation, zooming etc.). Hoping for movie recording in a future version.

If youre a fan of the original Photo Booth but always wanted customization, look no further. The advanced options are here! Launch FaceBoof! and use Command+I to open the two "Inspector" panels. You have access to all the Quartz Filters (.qtz) in the system, including Apples complete set (Photo Booth hides most of the built-in Apple supplied effects). Take a look at the options on "FaceBoof Camera" (left inspector panel) which is the first filter that the webcam passes through. You can zoom, rotate, colorize, or change the brightness and contrast. You can crop the image to a soft circle. The cropping is tied into the face tracking, which means the cropping follows your face in the screen. Next, flip to the right panel. This is the second filter the webcam passes through before appearing in the main window. You can use any built-in effect here: comic book, Andy Warhol ad nauseum. Finally, select a filter in the main window and tweak away. You can take snapshots __and__ most importantly, save all your custom settings in file for later use. Some of the filters are kind of wacky and childish, but lets face it: Apple provides many, many built-in effects that are otherwise unavailable in Photo Booth. The snapshots are saved as PNG files in the Pictures folder. Id like an option to make JPEGs, but its a minor concern.

When I installed this I got an immediate laugh from the goofy ball face and the mouth that tracks anything you say into the microphone. Or if theres a song playing in the background it looks like its singing. Its kind of a novelty that distracts from the power of the app. This app has so many effects and you can combine three of them, really easily, and it has face tracking. My ears are so big it tends to locate the eyeballs too wide, but luckily, it has adjustments for that. Pictures are snapped directly into your home Pictures folder, which is great. Im not a big fan of apps that drop stuff on the Desktop.

I have a bunch of Macs. As such, I like a glossy interface just as much as the next guy. Its just that after a year of using just about any app, you start to wish that some of the fixed settings were adjustable. And if they arent, you start looking around. You wont be looking around with this app. Sure, its got a goofy name and a bad icon, but there isnt a single setting in the app that you cant customize. The only improvement I can think of would be video recording and maybe a command line tool so I can make snapshots from a bash script. Im just kidding on that last suggestion.

LOTS of neat effects. Free demo version is available at developers site. I tried it and immediately was convinced that this feature-rich app deserved a place of honor among my app collection. Not only are there tons of effects, but you can vary each of those effects to your liking. AND…I very much appreciate the developers sense of humor. Check out the blog! Thank you to this great developer!

Can’t get a picture. Glad this was free, otherwise, I won’t pay for this piece of @#$%#!