Hidden image filters in Address Book
Written on November 15, 2007 by Josh Pigford and 5 people have commented
A little hidden gem in Leopard has been discovered. It would seem Address Book holds the key to a slew of additional image filters that can be applied to user images in Address Book. From my rough guess, there are about 25+ new filters here that don’t seem to be available anywhere else.
A short listing of some of the filters:
- ASCII Art
- Blue Print
- Color Invert
- Color Controls
- Dot Screen
- False Color
- Film Stock
- Kaleidescope
- Line Overlay
- Line Screen
- Monochrome
- Motion Blur
- Neon
- Pixellate
- Tracer
Thanks Adam Wilcox for the tip
Dave on November 15th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
The effects are also in Adium.. seems they are in any application that you can set profile pictures in.
Daniel on November 16th, 2007 at 11:57 am
It’s in iChat too to my knowledge…
Paul Nowak on November 16th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Not “any application that you can set profile pictures in” but any that use built in system “take photo” window.
But yes, Address Book, Adium and iChat are the most popular :)
Adam on November 17th, 2007 at 10:24 am
the effects are just Quartz Compositions available in /System/Library/Compositions
Vanya abakumov on May 19th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Yea, but how do you get the files from finder, to your Photo booth?