How to get solid color background in Photo Booth?

I checked the Help menu for Photo Booth and my experience does not match the descriptions in the Help. I want to have the speaker in front ofd the iMac with a deep blue background. I found a deep blue swatch of color in Google and placed it into the thumbnail. As per instructions, I clicked onto that thumbnail. However, at this point the instructions stop matching my experience.
The colors seems to slowly ever so slowly fill the rectangle. Sometimes a message saying “Get out of the picture” comes up, so I get out of the picture and let the color fill the thumbnail rectangle.
Is it supposed to take a long time for the color to completely fill the box? The Help menu doesn't mention how long one must wait.
Any word on this would be appreciated.
~ Lorna in Southern California

Yeah, I also experience problems with the video and user-choosable backgrounds in photo booth. I think the preview's of these effects on apple's website are a little touched up because I can't imagine somebody getting one of these backgrounds to look perfect. But when choosing these effects make sure what you are wearing doesn't blend in with what is behind you and I think the best way to set the background is to stay in the picture at first until it tells you to move and then get out of the way. Hope this helps(although I'm not sure there is much that can be done with this issue)!

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