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

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#1 Dave says:
The effects are also in Adium.. seems they are in any application that you can set profile pictures in.
#2 Daniel says:
It’s in iChat too to my knowledge…
#3 Paul Nowak says:
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
#4 Adam says:
the effects are just Quartz Compositions available in /System/Library/Compositions
#5 Vanya abakumov says:
Yea, but how do you get the files from finder, to your Photo booth?