HowTo: Install and Say Cheese

What is Cheese?

Cheese is a GNOME application designed to take photos and videos of you and your friends with your webcam, add special effects to them and share them with your friends and family. Cheese linux application was written as part of Google's 2007 Summer of Code lead by Daniel G. Siegel and mentored by Raphaël Slinckx, and has most of the classical photo booth features after a bare couple of months of development.

Cheese is a Photobooth-inspired GNOME application for taking pictures and videos from a webcam. Cheese also includes fancy graphical effects based on the gstreamer-backend.Under the hood, Cheese uses GStreamer to apply fancy effects to photos and videos.

In other words, cheese takes picture and movie shots and captures from your webcam as a source. Cheese saves these photos with different effects that can be previewed instantly right from your desktop.

Another good thing about cheese is that it will be included with Gnome 2.2. The last stable package release of Cheese software was freshly done yesterday.

Cheese Installation

Cheese is available from Fedora Amusement and Graphics Repo. Thus, cheese can be installed using yum as shown below, which downloads around 700K of rpm package size.


# yum -y install cheese


Binary Launch

Before launching cheese, make sure that your webcam is currently turned on and connected for cheese to snap webcam pictures properly.

# cheese

Cheese Webshot:



Enjoy and say cheese!

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