When you buy a new Apple device, in all of them there are a series of applications that are already installed by default, and the truth is, some are more useful than others. In many cases, these apps go directly to a separate folder, or are even deleted without having the opportunity to discover what you can do with them. For this reason, in this post we want to talk to you about Photo Booth, a very fun app that is always installed both on your iPad and on your Mac.
What is Photo Booth for?
As we said before, there are more or less useful pre-installed applications, and in the same way, more or less simple applications to use. In this case, Photo Booth is one of the applications that presents less complexity in its use, since it does not have functions that you will have to reel in order to get the most out of them. Actually, as its name suggests, Photo Booth is an app to take pictures, but with the peculiarity that it has really funny and fun effects that will make you take images loaded with smiles and a lot of fun. We encourage you to give it a chance, since for family reunions it can be really useful in order to immortalize moments of happiness, it can even become the true protagonist of the meeting.
Is it the same app for iPad and Mac?
Surprisingly, Apple in this case has wanted to differentiate, slightly, the functions that you find in the application for the iPad and the application for the Mac, so no, the Photo Booth application is not exactly the same for one device and another. In fact, one of them has a function that the other is not capable of offering, even the variety of effects that you can apply when capturing photographs is greater in one case than in another. We encourage you to keep reading to discover which device Apple has wanted to give more possibilities to with its Photo Booth application.
Photo Booth App on iPadOS
What can you do from the iPad?
The operation of Photo Booth on iPad is really simple, very simple since, as soon as you enter the application, you already have the interface ready to shoot your photos. First you have to choose one of the 9 filters available in the application, once you click on one of them you just have to position yourself as you want to appear in the photo and press the button for the iPad to capture the image. Once you have taken as many photos as you want, they will appear at the bottom of the screen, if you click on one of them you can export it through the share menu that appears at the bottom left of the screen. In case you want to change the filter, to go back you have to click on the filters icon located at the bottom left of the screen.
Filters available on iPad
As we mentioned before, in the iPad application, you have up to 9 different filters available that we list below.
- X-rays.
- Tunnel of light.
- Stretching.
- Mirror.
- Normal.
- Swirl.
- Thermal camera.
- Kaleidoscope.
- Compression.
How Photo Booth works on Mac
Capabilities of the app on the computer
The Mac has been the beneficiary in this case, since its Photo Booth application has more possibilities compared to the existing application on the iPad. In the first place, not only will you be able to take photographs, but you also have the possibility of recording video using one of the effects that they provide, which is fair, the second difference with the iPad application, and that is that on the Mac You have almost triple the filters available, that is, if you had 9 filters on the iPad, in this case you have up to 25 different filters that you will be able to use to take photos or videos through your Mac’s camera.
The operation is very simple, as in the iPad, the first thing you have to do is choose the filter you want to use, perhaps in this case the decision is more complicated since you have 25 funny effects to apply. Once you have made this choice, you will have to choose between the three existing shooting modes, located in the lower left part of the screen. The first one is a burst of 4 photographs that will then be displayed in a collage, with the second option you can take only one photograph and with the third and last option, you can record a video applying the chosen effect. Once you have taken the photograph, photos or video, at the bottom right of the screen you have the Share menu through which you can save or share your document with whoever you want.
Filters available on Mac
The number of filters in the Mac application is considerably higher than in the iPad application. Here are the filters available in Photo Booth for macOS.
- Extraterrestrial.
- Twisted nose
- Squirrel.
- In love.
- Normal.
- Dizzy.
- Stubborn
- Bulging eyes.
- Frog.
- Sepia.
- Black and white.
- Plastic camera.
- Comic.
- Color pencil.
- Radiance.
- Thermal camera.
- X-rays.
- Bulging
- Dent.
- Swirl.
- Understanding.
- Mirror.
- Tunnel of light.
- Fish eye.
- Stretching.
