So this is an app, especially for the windows-users among us (because all the cool apple-people have photo booth pre-installed on their gorgeous systems). As a windows-user, have you ever been in the situation that a collegue or a friend bought a new mac and surely he was showing off his new toy with the photo booth application? No more! From now on, you too can make crazy funny pictures like every mac user out there. Ofcourse, mac-users can also use this application, as it has some other effects then photobooth.
CrazyCam offers 33 effects like mirror-effects, fire, water, snow, rgb, ascii and many more (which were created by Paul Neave ). Just choose an effect on the left side, do a crazy face and make a snapshot!
UPDATE: There was a small update on the crazycam application. Some new features:
- choose the path to save your snapshots to
- new lay-out
- resizable (kinda)
More information about the update and future features can be found at my blog: matty.be
You can download the .zip file here: Download
If you haven’t adobe air installed yet, you can get it at Adobe !
Here are some sample snapshots our company-robot took:
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- "The mirror effect"
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- "The divide effect"
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- "The quad mirror effect"
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- "The ghost effect"
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- "The steam effect"
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- "The monochrome effect"
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- "The ascii effect"
Technorati Tags: air, flex, neave, photo booth, photobooth, photobooth for windows, webcam, webcam effects
July 21st, 2008 at 2:53 am
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July 25th, 2008 at 12:53 am
Funny app I’m gonna try it!
thanks
August 3rd, 2008 at 2:16 pm
That’s a great app I am going to have to try it. The examples look great.
August 20th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
nice app, just wanted to ask if you can provide source code for the effects used. Working on similar application and would greatly appreciate any help on this.
August 22nd, 2008 at 2:32 pm
you can get most of the source code for the effects from www.neave.com like I said in the post. He made these effects.
August 26th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
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October 3rd, 2008 at 10:13 pm
good point these source codes are hard to come across so when they are presented to you as easy as they are here, its probably a good idea to get the programs and see how you like them.
October 4th, 2008 at 1:29 am
yes! in your face cool mac users, with your trendy shoes and expensive coffee drinks.
i am going to try it out on me laptop this weekend while wearing cheap reboks and sipping mcdonalds coffee
cheers mate
October 26th, 2008 at 1:02 am
Fantastic - just what I’ve been waiting for. Really neat little application. My favourite effect is ascii. Ha ha you smug mac fanatics!
October 29th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Excellent application, thanks for pointing it to us here!
November 6th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Ascii is the coolest thing I’ve seen since waiting 2 days for my mate’s PC to draw a fractal painting back in 1992!
November 18th, 2008 at 2:32 am
Is there any way you can work on making these effects work with video? That would be great. And also, the graphics aren’t too good… the application goes black in areas without a lot of light.
November 18th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Thank you for all the replies, it’s nice to see people like this application.
To answer some questions:
These effects do work with video, and I’m working on a new release of crazycam as we speak. This will be a more mature version which will have some new features like recording video with the same effects, an image and video gallery and hopefully some improvement to the overall quality of the images and some of the effects (though I can’t promise this).
Maybe if I can find the time, I will also add “upload directly to flickr” but I’m not quite sure about that yet.
For the latest status and updates on crazycam, you can always take a look at my personal blog(http://blog.arten.be), where I try to post status updates on this project on a regular basis.
November 25th, 2008 at 6:10 am
I LOVE IT
December 1st, 2008 at 9:43 am
Thanks for the app, love it!
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:31 am
There will be a post about this later, but version 2.0 is available for download at the adobe marketplace :
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=1701034
V2 includes recording video clips and integrated media galleries
December 17th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
I have been using the first version and it is great. Glad to see that there is version 2. Looking forward to playing with it. Thanks for a great app!
January 8th, 2009 at 3:16 am
Wow this version is much better! Thanks friends!
January 12th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
So really cray, I already heard about it, but I never tried use it.
January 14th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
im trying to download it on my macbook but it doesnt work it keeps going to a verizon search thing searching for matty? i dont know why but i really would love to has this app! anyway i can get it?
January 20th, 2009 at 7:23 am
Maarten,
Thanks so much for the app. Im having fun playing with it..Right now Im hooked on the steam effect….I keep making what looks like homage to late 70’s early 80’s pop art. and music videos!
January 20th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Just downloaded this and had some fun. Nice work!
One question: does it save the photos anywhere??
January 20th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Okay belay that! I found the crazycam folder in my Documents folder. Should have looked in that obvious place before posting. Hooray!
…now I have a problem to report: it only saved one of the videos I took. It has thumbnails for the other 4 but no video file… Is this a known issue?
In any case heaps of fun! I especially like “mini me”. 64 versions of the image each a fraction of a second after the last creating a cascade of movement. Very cool, I like.
January 20th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Oh! Sorry for all the posts but…
It saves the photos with .jpg suffix on the filename but they are .png format. Luckily for me I use IrfanView which reports and automatically renames the files. Hm Windows Photo Gallery displays the file okay but does not report the filename/format mismatch.
January 21st, 2009 at 6:54 am
This looks crazy but it also looks like fun. I think I will give it a try. Thanks for all the cool photos and nice descriptions.
January 21st, 2009 at 11:25 am
Thanks guys for all the comments! I’m glad you’re having fun with it.
Probably there are still some bugs in there but I will look and see if I can fix some of those (especially the png/jpg thingie).
James: You can try and delete the crazycam folder in the My documents folder and see if that fixes the issues you’re having with video, this has never appeared here so I hope this will fix it for you.
RKMusiclife: You can get it at the adobe marketplace. Just click the install now button over there and it should start installing the application.
The link is: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=1701034
January 27th, 2009 at 4:50 am
This is an awesome application!
Funny you should mention the mac, because a friend of mine was showing me some similar stuff on a mac and I was thinking id like one for my windows box.
Great job
February 5th, 2009 at 1:02 am
This is a very cool and I will try to test it on max osx.
February 5th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Nice effects I might say.
February 7th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Hey there…
I must comment that what you share here is really very useful and valuable.
Thanks for sharing such helpful information to anyone in need including me. Cheers !
February 13th, 2009 at 1:14 am
Wow! That’s really cool. I love effects with Webcams except that I never have had the capability bc I thought only certain webcams did this. I didn’t realize it was the software (doh!). I’m gonna check this out.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:59 am
fun app. But the new features.. where is that? the one I have is the one from the a comment you left for someone else since the .zip file provided above didn’t work for me.
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:55 am
just downloaded this well cool having a right laugh
March 5th, 2009 at 10:32 am
CrazyCam is a very good application, I really like to use it.
I did not know it can be used on MAC too, I have been using it on Windows and admiring it.
Thanks for your post it was nice to know new things on it..
March 8th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Crazycam is both a great and a fun application.
March 26th, 2009 at 11:07 am
I have been Crazycam, it is an amazing app, you can do wonders with your images..
March 27th, 2009 at 11:30 am
As Angela mentioned the zip file did not work, its the same with me just wondering if it my machine issue or file issue..
March 27th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Mattres; it isn’t a zip file. It’s an adobe air file. You need to install the Air runtime first …
You can get it at http://get.adobe.com.
Thanks everybody for the replies! Really appreciate it
April 13th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Hi! I am having trouble downloading CrazyCam. Even after I downloaded Adobe Air, the screen came up like this when I tried to download this program:
Address Not Found
Firefox can’t find the server at www.matty.be.
The browser could not find the host server for the provided address.
* Did you make a mistake when typing the domain? (e.g. “ww.mozilla.org” instead of “www.mozilla.org”)
* Are you certain this domain address exists? Its registration may have expired.
* Are you unable to browse other sites? Check your network connection and DNS server settings.
* Is your computer or network protected by a firewall or proxy? Incorrect settings can interfere with Web browsing.
How can I download it? Please and thank you!
April 17th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Great Stuff! I am downloading it now.
April 19th, 2009 at 5:15 am
the zip file didnt work for me either.
April 20th, 2009 at 10:27 am
If you download the application as a ZIP-file, rename it to an .AIR-extension, that should do the trick.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:01 am
hello…the zip file didnt werk for me as well…i cant download it
May 25th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Wow! cool app. Thanks for the tip
June 5th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Very nice application. I am also going to try it.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:19 am
Nice app,thanks
July 22nd, 2009 at 4:06 pm
I am a fan of Crazycam, just love it..
July 25th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Crazycam is just like its name. Crazy app with loads of fun. I don’t realize where the time flies with it. Cool.
July 26th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
fun app. But the new features.. where is that? the one I have is the one from the a comment you left for someone else since the .zip file provided above didn’t work for me.
Thanks and Regards
August 13th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
its not working!The server is broken
August 17th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Had issues with the zip file? But I see some people are getting it to work? Looks great.
August 24th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
i downloaded it from adobe market place but i’m not sure if it downloaded properly. the one i have doesn’t even have a button to take a picture. all it has is three tabs at the top “create”, “image gallery” and “video gallery”. can someone help me get it to work properly. Thanks
September 16th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
i have the exact same problem as lou. please help.
October 16th, 2009 at 8:32 am
I guess this app is not as useful as it once was due to windows-mac integration.
December 16th, 2009 at 3:41 am
Cool app!
December 18th, 2009 at 3:24 am
The 1st version worked great for windows users of which I have to admit I still am. Haven’t broken down yet to learn Apple.
This newer version looks really cool and the monochrome capability especially catches my attention.
January 20th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Crazycam is both a great and a fun application.
February 4th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
awesome, i have never seen aps like this, thanks a lot
February 7th, 2010 at 3:40 am
how do you download the app