How to Disable Flash or Countdown in Photo Booth

Photo Booth is a really fun app that comes with all macs that have a built in iSight / FaceTime front facing camera.

Here are a couple tips that make using Photo Booth on your mac even more enjoyable; the ability to disable the ‘white screen’ flash and the ability to disable the 3 second countdown.

Try them out yourself, if you want to disable flash or the countdown in Photo Booth for Mac, here’s all you need to do:

Disable Flash in Photo Booth

Disabling flash in PhotoBooth is really easy all you have to do is hold the Shift key while you click to take a picture and the screen will not flash white.

Disable Countdown in Photo Booth

Disabling the picture count down in PhotoBooth is just a matter of holding down the Option key while you click to take a picture, your photo will take immediately.

You can combine the keystrokes by holding down Option-Shift and you’ll immediately take a picture without the flash.

Know of any other interesting photobooth tips for Mac? Let us know in the comments or send them on in, it’s a fun app!