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Especially for &app;-users with small displays, like the ones in netbooks, we have designed
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another view. It is more horizontally aligned, in order to fit better on small widescreen displays.
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The wide-view is shown in the screenshot below.
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&app; defaults to photo mode, and needs to be changed to video mode if
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&app; uses the photo mode by defaults, but you can change this to use the video
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or burst mode if desired.
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<title>Effects</title>
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To apply effects to the input of your webcam, click
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the button labelled <guibutton>Effects</guibutton>. When you go to the
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effects window, you will see a window similar to the image below
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the button labelled <guibutton>Effects</guibutton>. When you then go to
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the effects window, you will see a window similar to the image below.
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You are able to select numerous effects to apply to your photo. To apply
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an effect, just click on the effect that you want. The button will appear highlighted.
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Selecting multiple effects will apply all the effects to
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your image (for example, if you apply <guibutton>Hulk</guibutton> and
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<guibutton>Vertical Flip</guibutton>, the
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input from the webcam will be altered to have a green shade and be up side down).
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To disable all effects, just click on the
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You can apply some really cool effects to your photos too! Just choose
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from the several different effects available and click its corresponding
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button to apply it to your photo. Selecting multiple effects will apply
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all the effects to your image. For example, if you select
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<guibutton>Hulk</guibutton> and <guibutton>Vertical Flip</guibutton>,
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the input from the webcam will be altered to have a green shade and be
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upside down. To disable all effects, just click on the
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<guibutton>No Effect</guibutton> button.
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labelled <guibutton>Effects</guibutton> again. This will toggle
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the Effects menu and bring you back to the normal view.
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<title>Photo Mode</title>
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Photo mode is the default mode that &app; opens in. When not in photo mode,
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click the button labelled <guibutton>Photo</guibutton>, press
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<keycombo><keycap>Alt</keycap><keycap>P</keycap></keycombo> or Menu:
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Photo mode is the default mode for &app;. When not in photo mode,
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click the button that shows the icon of a single photo or select it from the menu:
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<menuchoice><guimenu>Cheese</guimenu><guimenuitem>Photo</guimenuitem></menuchoice>
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to change to photo mode.
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Photo mode will take a single photo every time the button labelled
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<guibutton>Take a photo</guibutton> or the <keycap>Spacebar</keycap>
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is pressed, and will save to disk.
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key is pressed, and will save to disk.
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The video mode does look any different to the screenshot of photo mode,
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The video mode does not look much different from the photo mode,
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except that the button labelled <guibutton>Take a photo</guibutton> will
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be either <guibutton>Start Recording</guibutton>
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or <guibutton>Stop Recording</guibutton>,
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and the button labelled <guibutton>Video</guibutton> is greyed out, whereas the button
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labelled <guibutton>Photo</guibutton> is not.
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say <guibutton>Start Recording</guibutton> or <guibutton>Stop Recording</guibutton>,
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and the button with the film roll icon is pushed in, whereas the other
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mode buttons (photo and burst) are not.
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<section id="using-burstmode">
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<title>Burst Mode</title>
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In burst mode you can take more pictures in a row. It works exactly like
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the photo mode, except that it takes a series of pictures. When you are
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not in burst mode, click the button that shows the icon of several
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pictures in a row or select it from the menu: <menuchoice><guimenu>Cheese</guimenu><guimenuitem>Burst</guimenuitem></menuchoice> to
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change to burst mode. Burst mode will start to take a series of
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pictures with an interval of some seconds in between photos when the
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button labelled <guibutton>Take Multiple Photos</guibutton> or the
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<keycap>Spacebar</keycap> key is pressed.
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The delay and amount of pictures to take can be set in the preferences
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dialog. For more information please see <xref linkend="preferences"/>.
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You can use both photo and video mode in Fullscreen. To do this, just click
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<menuchoice><guimenu>Cheese</guimenu><guimenuitem>Fullscreen</guimenuitem></menuchoice> to
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enter Fullscreen mode, or press <keycap>F11</keycap>. To exit Fullscreen
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mode, press <keycap>Esc</keycap> or <keycap>F11</keycap>.
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All modes can be used in fullscreen. To do this, click the
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<menuchoice><guimenu>Cheese</guimenu><guimenuitem>Fullscreen</guimenuitem></menuchoice> menu to
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enter fullscreen mode, or press the <keycap>F11</keycap> key. To exit fullscreen
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mode, press the <keycap>Esc</keycap> or the <keycap>F11</keycap> keys.
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<section id="working-with">
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<section id="takingaphoto">
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<title>Taking a photo</title>
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To take a photo in &app;, be sure to be in “Photo” mode.
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To take a photo, apply the effects that you wish by clicking the button
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labelled <guibutton>Effects</guibutton>, click on the effects desired as
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described in a previous section and press the button labelled
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<guibutton>Back</guibutton>. You should now have the effects that
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you clicked on applied to the webcam input.
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To take the photo, press the button labelled <guibutton>Take a photo</guibutton>
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or press the <keycap>spacebar</keycap>. You will then
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see &application; count down from 3 or instantly take the photo, depending on your settings. When the photo is taken, your entire screen
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To take a photo with &app;, be sure to be in the “Photo” mode.
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It's easy to take photos with special effects. Just click the button
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labelled <guibutton>Effects</guibutton>, and click on the effects desired as
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described in <xref linkend="using-effects"/>. You should now have the effects that
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you chose applied to the webcam input. Press the effects button again to
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get back to the normal view.
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To take a photo, press the button labelled <guibutton>Take a photo</guibutton>
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or press the <keycap>spacebar</keycap> key. Alternatively, you can also use
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the webcam capture button, if your webcam has one. You will then
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see &application; count down from 3 or instantly take the photo,
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depending on your settings. When the photo is taken, your entire screen
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will flash white, and the photo that was just taken will appear in the photo
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stream at the bottom of the program window.
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stream at the bottom of the program's window. To abort the countdown you can use the
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<keycap>Esc</keycap> key.
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<title>Taking a video</title>
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<title>Recording a video</title>
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To take a video in &app;, make sure that the <guibutton>Video</guibutton>
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To record a video in &app;, make sure that the <guibutton>Video</guibutton>
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button has been pressed.
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To start recording a video, press the button labelled <guibutton>Start
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Recording</guibutton> or press the <keycap>spacebar</keycap>.
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The time of how much video has been recorded will appear in the bottom right
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Recording</guibutton> or press the <keycap>Spacebar</keycap> key. Alternatively,
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you can also use the webcam capture button, if your webcam has one.
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To stop recording just press the same button, now labelled <guibutton>Stop
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Recording</guibutton>, and the recording will stop and the video saved.
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If your video appears to be jerky or have a low
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frame rate (only updating the picture every few seconds), it does not mean that the recording
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has a similar frame rate. In many cases, the recorded file will have a better frame rate.
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<section id="takingburst">
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<title>Taking a series of pictures in burst mode</title>
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To take more than one picture over some time you can use the burst mode.
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Burst mode can be set up in the preferences dialog where you can also set the
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amount of pictures you want to take and the delay in seconds between them.
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You can find more information about that in <xref linkend="preferences"/>.
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To start the burst mode, press the button labelled <guibutton>Take Multiple Photos</guibutton>
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or press the <keycap>Spacebar</keycap> key. Alternatively, you can also use the webcam capture button,
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if your webcam has one. To stop the burst capture you can use the
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<keycap>Esc</keycap> key.
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<section id="setting-up">
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<title>Setting up &app;</title>
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<section id="preferences">
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<title>The preferences dialog</title>
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The preferences dialog allows you to set up some webcam specific parameters and
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parameters specific to the burst mode. If you have more than one webcam or video device attached
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to your system, the preferences dialog allows you to choose which one you would like to use for Cheese and
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what resolution the image should have. Use the sliders to play around with the
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brightness, contrast, saturation and hue values to find the best for your webcam.
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<title>&app; preferences screenshot</title>
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The parameters for the burst mode can be set in the preferences dialog as well. You only
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have to adjust the values for the number of photos you wish to take and the delay
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in seconds between each picture taken.
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<title>GConf settings</title>
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It's possible to define where &app; stores the captured media (photos and videos). These
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settings are stored in GConf. You can change the settings with the <command>gconf-editor</command>,
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application. There you have to select /apps/cheese in the tree on the left. Then you can set the <guilabel>video_path</guilabel> and
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<guilabel>photo_path</guilabel> to the location you prefer. There you can also set other parameters
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for &app;, but you should use the preferences dialog for a controlled access.
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<para>Attention: Be careful while using GConf to change your settings! If you are not completely sure about what
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you are doing, you should ask someone who knows!</para>
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<title>Sharing Photos and Videos</title>
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<title>Viewing a photo or video</title>
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To view a video or photo that has been taken, locate it in the photo stream and
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double click on it. Alternatively, you can right click on it and select <guimenuitem>Open</guimenuitem>.
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double click it. Alternatively, you can right click on it and select <guimenuitem>Open</guimenuitem>.
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This will then open the file in the default application for that file type.
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To delete a photo from the photo stream, locate the photo you wish to delete in
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the photo stream, left click on it once and press the <keycap>delete</keycap> button on your
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keyboard. Alternatively, you can right click on it and click <guimenuitem>Delete</guimenuitem>.
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keyboard. Alternatively, you can right click on it and select <guimenuitem>Delete</guimenuitem>
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from the pop-up menu.
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your photo stream. This will not remove the photo from your computer. To remove
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it from your trash, you will need to empty your trash.
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it from your system, you will need to empty your trash.
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Photos can be directly emailed from &app;. You will need to have the default mail
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client set up with an email account, otherwise you will need to set one up. To email
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a photo, locate the photo you wish to email in the photo stream, right click on
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client set up with an email account. To email
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a photo, locate the photo in the photo stream, right click on
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it and select <guimenuitem>Send by Mail</guimenuitem>.
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message with the photo as an attachment.
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<title>Set as Account Photo</title>
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To set a photo as your account photo (which can be viewed from
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<menuchoice><guimenu>System</guimenu><guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem>
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<guimenuitem>About Me</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, and which will also appear if the login window displays a list of
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user names with photos), locate the photo that you wish to set in &app;, right click
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<guimenuitem>About Me</guimenuitem></menuchoice> menu, and the login window with a list of
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user names with photos), locate the photo that you wish to use in &app;, right click
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on it and select <guimenuitem>Set as Account Photo</guimenuitem>.
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<section id="faq-store">
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<title>Where does &application; store my photos?</title>
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Your photos are stored in ~/.gnome2/cheese/media. You can also save
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them to an alternate location from within &app;. Please see
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<title>Where does &application; store my photos and videos?</title>
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&app; stores your pictures in a folder called Webcam inside the
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XDG-Directory set for Pictures (in most distributions its ~/Pictures/Webcam).
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The same applies for Videos: ~/Videos/Webcam. XDG is a standard to
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declare default folders in your system. You can find more information
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about XDG <ulink url="http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html" type="http">here</ulink>.
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If the XDG-Path is not set on your System, cheese has a fallback solution: it
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will store both your pictures and videos in ~/.gnome2/cheese/media. This is the default
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directory for your media if you have an older version of &application;.
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How to set an alternate path is described in <xref linkend="gconf"/>.
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<para>Attention: leave this settings blank if you want &application; to use the default directories.</para>
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<xref linkend="saving"/> for information on this.
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<section id="faq-quickcam">
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"When I launch &app;, I get the message 'No Camera Found' but I have my webcam plugged into my computer".
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There are many situations this can happen in, and the exact problem that is causing this needs to be isolated.
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If possible, try each of the following to try and get your webcam working.
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1. Plug your webcam into another computer. If it works there, then it is a problem with
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There are many situations that can cause this, and the exact problem that is causing it needs to be isolated.
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If possible, try each of the following to try and get your webcam working:
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with the connection to your computer, or the operating system if it was a different
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one on the other computer. Check the ports on your computer (try another one) and
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consult support personel for your particular operating system.
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2. See if your camera is being detected by your computer, on Linux, open up the terminal or console and type
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consult support for your particular operating system.
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2. See if your camera is being detected by your computer. On Linux, open up the terminal or console and type
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"dmesg" before you plug in your webcam. Notice the most recent entries, and then plug in your webcam. Type
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"dmesg" again and see if the most recent entries differ. If the message mentions a USB device being detected,
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and your webcam is the only USB device that has been changed, then your computer is detecting your webcam
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fine. If not, then test to see if the webcam is working on another computer. This may only work with USB
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3. As &app; uses the gstreamer backend, it is most likely because gstreamer is not detecting the webcam (or
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gstreamer has become corrupt). Please contact support personel for the particular operating system that
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gstreamer has become corrupt). Please contact support for the particular operating system that
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you are running with as many details as possible. For Ubuntu, please use the <ulink url="http://ubuntuforums.org/" type="http">Ubuntu Forums</ulink>.
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<title>Which cameras are supported</title>
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<title>Which cameras are supported?</title>
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any camera that works with GStreamer. In principle that should be any camera
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any camera that works with GStreamer. That should be any camera
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