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Article:		What Is Automator (and Can It Make Your Life Easier)
Subject:		using automator to create a photobooth picture taker
Date:		2005-09-11 21:25:07
From:		ejoe
How easy would it be to use automator to take 4 pictures using the iSight at 5 second intervals, crop and resize the pictures to fit on a 4 by 6 inch frame, and then print them out - photobooth style? I think this action would be a great way for Apple to demo the power of photobooth.

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• using automator to create a photobooth picture taker
  2005-09-12 17:15:48  Matthew Russell | [View]
  
  
  The best way to get this done would be to ping an existing developer of a photo booth type application (there's a few out there) and request the action, because they've already written the core code...but if you don't want to do that...
  
  As it stands right now, I don't think that the "Take Picture" action bundled with Tiger supports the iSight; at least it didn't with mine. Hence, you'd need to write an action for that. I might get around to it in a bit if no one else does, as I've had to do a lot of image processing lately with mine.
  
  The other issue is doing the pretty print. That involves digging into the Cocoa docs for printing and might be a bit time consuming if you've never dealt much with those frameworks. Alternatively, you might be able to use a fink tool like "mpage" to print 4 images per page...but there wouldn't be a nice border like you're probably expecting.
  
  So in short, it would take some time because the two core actions just don't exist. If I supply the iSight action, does anyone want to start cranking on the pretty print?
• using automator to create a photobooth picture taker
  2006-06-20 08:52:22  neoporcupine [View]
  
  
  I would love to see an iSight action to take an image. Would have saved me the adventure of going through this http://neoporcupine.blogspot.com/2006/06/automating-isight.html