Take a Photo Booth picture without the flash

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Tue, Nov 27 2007 at 2:30PM PST • Contributed by: ianeiloart

If you hold the Shift key while taking a photo in Photo Booth, you'll disable the flash. This can be useful for photographing highly reflective objects.

You can combine this with the Option key (see this hint) to avoid the three second delay and disable the flash.

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Take a Photo Booth picture without the flash
Authored by: ateichman on Tue, Nov 27 2007 at 3:47PM PST

Hmmm. Doesn't work for me. Is this Leopard only?

Take a Photo Booth picture without the flash
Authored by: ianeiloart on Wed, Nov 28 2007 at 3:58AM PST

Probably this is Leopard only. I've not tried it in Tiger.

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Take a Photo Booth picture without the flash
Authored by: nick_marden on Sat, Jul 12 2008 at 7:28PM PDT

It only seems to work with the right Shift key, not the left one.

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Take a Photo Booth picture without the flash
Authored by: seanm5 on Tue, Nov 27 2007 at 5:10PM PST

Is there a way to make this the default behavior (not having to hold shift to disable the flash)? On my new iMac, the flash is way too bright and it ends up ruining all of the pictures taken.

Take a Photo Booth picture without the flash
Authored by: ottonomy on Wed, Nov 28 2007 at 12:48AM PST

I have found the flash to make Photo Booth almost unusable. It's so strange that the default behavior would be to snap a picture that looks nothing like what you've just previewed in natural light and decided to keep. Flash should be reserved for when the user takes a picture without it and decides that the ambient light wasn't sufficient. Anyway, I'm greatly relieved to find a way to disable the flash, even if it requires me to keep a finger on the keyboard.

Take a Photo Booth picture without the flash
Authored by: virusdoc on Tue, Nov 27 2007 at 5:51PM PST

Not working for me either in Tiger.

Take a Photo Booth picture without the flash
Authored by: zebrum on Wed, Nov 28 2007 at 12:33AM PST

NICE, i needed to do this the other day and ended up running SleepDisplay immediately after clicking take photo. Shift worked for me.

Take a Photo Booth picture without the flash
Authored by: Ronoc on Wed, Nov 28 2007 at 6:48AM PST

Holding option removes the countdown but shift, ctrl, nor command stop the flash.

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Take a Photo Booth picture without the flash
Authored by: M-3 on Wed, Nov 28 2007 at 9:30AM PST

Just take a screen shot with command-shift-4 if you don't want the flash.

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