Built in isight suddenly won't work

Yesterday when I got my macbook my isight worked fine and I took some goofy pics and it was fun. Very late in the day while trying to send some files from my PC to my macbook the camera stopped working. Now the green light stays on continually and any picture you take is green. As for video you just see a blank black screen and nothing happens. This isn't very cool for a second day mac user to have happened to. Anybody have any suggestions?

nevermind...i'm a noob
i just looked at some other discussions and tried turning my computer on and off and voila
that was pretty ********

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