Cheese Brings Photobooth Functionality to Linux

“Cheese is a relatively new open source webcam application for
Linux that supports image and video capture and allows users to
apply visual effects. Created by Daniel Siegel for Google’s Summer
of Code program, Cheese closely resembles a Mac OS X program called
Photobooth. Cheese 0.2.1 was released yesterday with some nice new
features like a countdown timer and support for saving pictures to
Flickr.

“Cheese is built on top of the GStreamer open source media
development framework and also uses GTK, Cairo, and D-Bus…”

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