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SOFTWARE | See-in-the-dark Photo Booth effect filter

My new, see-in-the-dark Photo Booth effect filter is now available for download from MediaFire ; with it, you can use your iSight camera in the dark, and—provided your screen is facing the same direction as the iSight camera—the recorded video will look as if there was light: A moderate example of the filter, showing the filtered video on the left, the original on the right Amazingly, this picture was taken in the dark using the usually inferior 2-megapixels iSight camera (2014 MacBook Air) with the equally inferior Photo Booth app Equally amazing is that, under the same testing conditions, the usually superior 5-megapixels iPhone 5s camera failed miserably by comparison This is not just a brightness and/or contrast tweak. The filter is specifically designed to work under any lighting conditions: indoors and out. Not only that, but it readily compensates for sudden changes. For example, when walking from a lit room to a dark room, you won't see any glare or wa

SOFTWARE | New chroma-tracking video filter available for Photo Booth

Modern CCD cameras are sensitive enough to be able to count individual photons. [Source: I.T. Young, J.J. Gerbrands, L.J. van Vliet; Vilniaus universiteto Matematikos ir informatikos fakultetas]   A new video effect for Photo Booth is available for download that displays and records video in which natural light is masked, leaving only the chroma emanated by demons, demonic entities and all cloaked matter: One of many faces uncovered over my own using the chroma-tracking Photo Booth effect It produces video nearly identical to that of the first Python-fu/GIMP image-processing script released on this site [ see TECHNOLOGY | Demonic-activity video stream; tween-frame video filter ; see also   Clandestine surgical mutilation, hidden demonic "bomb" uncovered via demonic-activity video filter ], the exceptions being that the images produced by this plug-in are far more detailed, and that this plug-in captures the smallest of movements, so there is no loss of (or dark) f