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Just playing with PhotoBooth and realised that I'm looking at a mirror image and not a true image. How did that happen? I'm sure that when I first played with it the image was as it should be and I cannot see any preferences to automatically show a mirror. I can see where i can flip photos but that shouldn't affect the real time image seen on the screen.
What did I do and how do I make it better?
I have closed down and started up again but that made no difference.
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It's defaulted as a mirror image.
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[quote threeprong]It's defaulted as a mirror image.
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You are probably trying to help (benefit of the doubt) but yes it does seem to have defaulted to a mirror image but how do I get it back to normal?
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Photobooth->Edit->Auto Flip New Photos
or
Shift-Command-F
Hope that is it.
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It shouldn't matter.
Unless you're a vampire...
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[quote JJ]Photobooth->Edit->Auto Flip New Photos
or
Shift-Command-F
Hope that is it.
Obviously my fault, I'm not explaining properly.
Yes I know about the Auto Flip New Photos and that should do exactly what it says, flip the photos taken but not the image that is seen in real time in the main PhotoBooth window. I've played with the Auto Flip and it only flips the pictures taken and does nothing to the real time image.
Maybe I was mistaken when I thought that when I first played with PhotoBooth it didn't show a mirror image. Someone please tell me, if you look at the image of yourself in PhotoBooth and you move your head to your left does the image also go left (mirror) or does it go right as though it was a camera? I assumed it should go right.
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If I move my head left, the image moves left.
If I imagine myself behind the camera, that would be the behavior I would expect.
This seems to me to be the correct display.
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[quote JJ]If I move my head left, the image moves left.
If I imagine myself behind the camera, that would be the behavior I would expect.
This seems to me to be the correct display.
OK, so if it happens on yours that way then that is the correct thing. I just thought that as a camera it would take a picture like any other camera, the right way round. As it is the image you see, no matter where you look at it from is a reversed image not the true image and to get a photo looking like it should you actually have to tell it to Flip the Photo. I wouldn't have said that was normal for a camera.
So if you use it as a webcam for video conferencing the others see you as a mirror image?
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Do you have your clothes on??
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[quote voodoopenguin]
So if you use it as a webcam for video conferencing the others see you as a mirror image?
No.
BGnR
Is this really that hard of a concept to grasp?
