Take a photo with your webcam

Many people want to experiment with facial expressions, props, and poses in order to get successful photographs. But not everyone is ready to appear funny in front of their friends. Therefore, a webcam can help in finding a suitable image for photography, and special online services will add effects and remove imperfections. Not every user can take good photos from a webcam. And there is a completely logical explanation for this.

Those who have costs Windows 7, are deprived of the ability to use a webcam to take photos or record home videos without using third-party software or Internet applications, since this feature is not provided in the standard OS functions.

Windows 8 users are more fortunate - there is a special Camera application to take pictures. It can be found among one of the tiles in the active menu or in the search.

But the application does not have tools for editing and designing images, so it makes sense to use an online service.

But first you should check the hardware and drivers:

- Check if the webcam is connected if it is not built into the computer monitor.

- Make sure there are drivers in the system for the webcam.

- Install Adobe Flash Player or update it to the latest version.

- When loading an online service, do not forget to click the “Allow” button when asked for permission to use your webcam.

- Adobe Flash Player can also request access to the webcam.

Now we can move directly to creating photos

Picachoo http://www.picachoo.ru

To make a photo using the Picachoo online service will not be difficult, because for this you do not need to register or log in through social networks. You just go to the site, select “Take a photo” and you’re done.

Also, with the help of a small functionality, you can make a GIF photo and add effects. There are a little more than a dozen of them on the list.

After setting all the settings, click the “Take photo” button and save the photo to your computer. In order to send an image directly from the service to your page on a social network, you need to log in.

If you go through a simple registration procedure on the site, you can place the photo in the service gallery.

Pixect http://www.pixect.com/ru/

The service offers a number of useful settings for creating online photos, as well as editing existing images.

When a user lands on the Pixect website, he is introduced to the main features of the project.

To create an online photo, click on the “Let’s go!” button.

In the next window we will see the functionality of the service:

- At the top there are tools for determining the orientation of the photo and using the flash.
- On the left are image quality settings: brightness, contrast, color and saturation.
- In the bottom panel, select the effect for the photo, set the timer, and the type of collage.

You can apply several effects at once.

Webcamio http://webcamio.com/ru/

The service has been running for more than one year. This is probably why everything in it is so well structured.
All tools are divided into categories: effects, frames, collages, mirrors. And in categories everything is arranged into collections depending on the topic.

Thanks to this service device, the user has the opportunity to select the most favorable settings for his photo.

Webcam Toy Camera http://webcamtoy.com/ru/

The online service is probably not much different from its predecessors in terms of design and operation. To create a photo, go to its page, then click on the “Ready? Smile!".

After which the photo creation service will open. Here you need to set the image settings and select the appropriate effect.

But this is the main highlight of Webcam Toy Camera. The developers were not lazy and used their imagination. Subsequently, such effects as “Ghost”, “Comics”, “Color Trace” appeared.

As you can see, each has its own tricks and focus. If for one the main goal is communication and getting to know each other, discussing photos in the gallery, then the other is ready to offer good functionality for photo processing... Online services guarantee you the confidentiality of personal information. All photographs taken online or downloaded from a computer are not distributed online without your consent and are not displayed on the editor’s website.