Cheese is a GNOME

GNOME

GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software...

 webcam application, similar to Apple's Photo Booth

Photo Booth

Photo Booth is a small software application for taking photos and videos with an iSight camera by Apple Inc. for Mac OS X and iOS .-Photo Booth:...

. It was developed as a Google Summer of Code

Google Summer of Code

The Google Summer of Code is an annual program, first held from May to August 2005, in which Google awards stipends to hundreds of students who successfully complete a requested free or open-source software coding project during the summer...

 2007 project by Daniel G. Siegel. It uses GStreamer

GStreamer

GStreamer is a pipeline-based multimedia framework written in the C programming language with the type system based on GObject.GStreamer allows a programmer to create a variety of media-handling components, including simple audio playback, audio and video playback, recording, streaming and editing...

 to apply effects to photos and videos. It can export to Flickr

Flickr

Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to...

 and is integrated into GNOME

GNOME

GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software...

 (for example, images can be used as gnome-about-me pictures).

From version 2.22.0, Cheese is officially a part of GNOME

GNOME

GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software...

.

Effects

• Mauve
• Noir/Blanc
• Saturation
• Hulk
• Vertical Flip
• Horizontal Flip
• Shagadelic
• Vertigo
• Edge
• Dice
• Warp

External links

• http://projects.gnome.org/cheese/
• Arstechnica
• Linux Planet
• Linux Today