10.5: Apply image filters to Address Book photos

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Wed, Nov 14 2007 at 7:30AM PST • Contributed by: Anonymous

I was surprised to find a great many effect filters available when setting photos in Leopard's Address Book -- six pages of them! Included are hologram, ASCII art(!), and other great ones. To check them out, just load up Address Book, edit the image in one of your contacts, and click the swirly effects button next to the camera button.

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10.5: Apply image filters to Address Book photos
Authored by: lokithefirst on Wed, Nov 14 2007 at 8:27AM PST

Now, how can I go about using those effects in PhotoBooth?!

Why does Address Book get more effects than PhotoBooth?!

10.5: Apply image filters to Address Book photos
Authored by: bruss147 on Wed, Nov 14 2007 at 9:23AM PST

Go to System/Library/Compositions.
Copy the effects you want from address book to your user/Library/Compositions (create the folder if it doesn't exist). Open Photo Booth and/or iChat. There they are!

10.5: Apply image filters to Address Book photos
Authored by: bruss147 on Wed, Nov 14 2007 at 9:28AM PST

Nevermind. I tried with Black and white and color pencil, which are photo booth effects. Of course they'd work ;)

You have to edit the quartz files to make them photo booth compatible. I did City Lights, working on the others.

10.5: Apply image filters to Address Book photos
Authored by: bruss147 on Wed, Nov 14 2007 at 9:37AM PST

If you want to see the City Lights I converted for Photo Booth/iChat use, get it here:
http://www.advancedphotowork.com/quartz/citylights.qtz.zip

You can edit this in Quartz Composer (included on your system installation disk) and edit the address book effects, replacing out the City Lights effect section with the one from your address book effect and save it with a new name.

10.5: Apply image filters to Address Book photos
Authored by: JGrushack on Wed, Nov 14 2007 at 4:24PM PST

check out quartzfx.com and upload what your doing onto that site

10.5: Apply image filters to Address Book photos
Authored by: Mbodwin on Wed, Nov 14 2007 at 8:56AM PST

This can also be done in the new Workgroup Manager on Leopard server.

10.5: Apply image filters to Address Book photos
Authored by: ramcosca on Wed, Nov 14 2007 at 11:23AM PST

This works for every app that uses Address Book's "snapshot"... library... thing (i.e. Adium).

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