Photo Booth Alternatives

Cheese

Cheese uses your webcam to take photos and videos, applies fancy special effects and lets you share the fun with others. It was written as part of Googles 2007 Summer of Code lead by Daniel G. Siegel and mentored by Raphaël Slinckx. Under the hood, Cheese uses GStreamer to apply fancy effects to photos and videos. With Cheese it is easy to take photos of you, your friends, pets or whatever you want and share them with others.

Features:

• Photobooth
• Screenshot Tools
• Capture Video
• Webcam Effects
• Webcam recording

GTK+ UVC Viewer

guvcview is a video viewer and capture software for the linux UVC driver. It is based in luvcview (http://mxhaard.free.fr ), but all controls are done with GTK, allowing for a more user friendly GUI. This project aims at providing a simple GTK interface for capturing and viewing video from devices supported by the linux UVC driver, although it should also work with any v4l2 compatible device.

Features:

• Capture Video
• Webcam recording

Webcamoid

Webcamoid is a full web camera suite. You can take photos and record videos with funny effects. Features - Take pictures and record videos with the webcam. - Manages multiple webcams. - Written in C++/Qt. - Custom controls for each webcam. - Add funny effects to the webcam. - +60 effects available. - Translated to many languages. - Use custom network and local files as capture devices. - Capture from desktop. - Many recording formats.

Features:

• Screen recording
• Image Correction
• IP camera
• Multiple languages
• Photo effects
• Portable
• Screenshot Tools
• Capture Video
• Record videos
• Virtual camera output
• Virtual Webcam
• Webcam Effects
• Webcam recording

Chatzy

Chatzy is a free private chat service which you can use to communicate with people you already know or people who visits your blog or website. With Chatzy you can create a chatroom and send out email invitations very quickly and easily. No registration is required.

Features:

• No installation
• No registration required

wxCam

wxCam is a webcam application for linux. It supports video recording (in an avi uncompressed and Xvid format), snapshot taking, and some special commands for philips webcams, so you can also use the program for astronomy purposes. It supports both video4linux 1 and 2 drivers, so it should work on a very large number of devices.

Features:

• Motion detection
• Record videos
• Webcam recording

Kamoso

Kamoso is a simple and friendly program to use your camera.

Camorama

Camorama is a small utility to view and save images from a webcam or any other Video4Linux device. It can apply a number of image filters and make remote captures.

Cameroid

Just like Photo Booth - exept is online. Have fun with your webcam. Apply text and funny effects. Take crazy (or not) snaps with your webcam straight from your browser.

Features:

• Photo effects
• Webcam Effects