If you have to go to the grocery store, you may as well make it fun. My son can’t quite read yet, so I like to make picture lists of what we need and I have him go through the list and help me get all of the items. Usually, I just use Google’s image search to build my list of pictures. Today, I couldn’t find the right picture, and I decided to try my hand at taking my own pictures.
Here’s where I got lazy. Why take a picture with my phone or digital camera and then take the time to copy over to my laptop? I have a camera on my laptop. Why can’t I use that?
Here’s how to make it work…
Installing Drivers and Software
I found my answers in Ubuntu’s Documentation. If you need help with the drivers part, you can look there, but my driver was installed by default with the Ubuntu installation. The part I needed was Cheese. The Cheese program did exactly what I needed.
You can either use Ubuntu Software Center to install Cheese like this…
Or, you can use Synaptic…
Once installed, you’ll find it under the Sound and Video menu:
Using Cheese
Taking the picture is as easy as saying Cheese! Open the program, get your web cam pointed right, and click the take photo button.
Note, Cheese has different modes. You can either take a picture, video, or burst mode. You can select the mode at the bottom:
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