Cheese: funny photos with your webcam in linux

Normally, the use that we give to our webcam is limited. Cheese is one of those applications that will show other ways to take advantage of the webcam. Allowing you to take screenshots and put all the effects you can imagine. If you find it funny, continue reading our post, Cheese: funny photos with your Linux webcam.

What is Cheese on Linux?

It is a GNOME webcam application. It was developed by Daniel G. Siegel in 2007. This one uses GStreamer to apply effects to photos and videos. In addition, it allows you to export your fun photos to Flickr.

It was officially added to GNOME in version 2.22. It is open source, with a repository available in Git. Cheese makes it easy for us to take great pictures of ourselves, with our friends or pets and then share them.

Key features

3… 2… 1… Cheese!

It has a countdown widget. It will appear at the bottom of the image and gives us time to press "Take photo" and prepare, we will only have 3 seconds.

Add Cheesy Effects

If you are tired of seeing your photos all the same time, Cheese allows you to add many different effects and even several at the same time.

Bu-bu-bu-burst mode!

Cheese brings us a new feature: Burst mode ! You can create the most fun images. Just set the number of photos you want to take and the delay time.

Your own videos

It not only allows us to take great photos. We can also make videos. Of course, we can put effects on them and share. That is, the same options as with the photographs.

Use it from wherever you want

Its most recent interface was adapted for users with netbooks. Making the experience on small screens completely impressive. Which allows us to use it from a train trip, having coffee with our friends or sitting from the corridor of a hotel. Recreate the best scenes of your vacation with Cheese.

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Multiple webcams

Do you have multiple webcams ? With Cheese, you can switch between them in one click. Just open a preferences dialog box and choose your favorite camera. Additionally, you can adjust the resolution of the camera. And even more, adjust brightness, contrast and other touches for incredible shots.

Share your photos and videos

Not everything is in photos or videos. Go further. Share them with your friends and family. You can then export them to F-Spot, put them on Flickr, mail them, or use them as a photo from your GNOME account. You can also save to disk to do whatever you want with them… The possibilities are endless!