Mac Account Picture

I just did a clean install of Snow Leopard. When the install completed, the iSight camera took a picture for my account which I now see in my Address Book. I'd like to use this image elsewhere - does anyone know where I can find the original picture? I've found the image with a .tiff extension in Library/Caches but that is only the size of a thumbnail. If someone can help, it would be greatly appreciated.

In Snow Leopard, that thumbnail-sized image IS the picture that the system makes during the install process. You won't find a larger one. Although theoretically a snapshot is first taken at the iSight's native resolution and then scaled down--with any trace of that scaling process taking place only in behind-the-scenes tmp directories--the original (larger) snapshot appears to be deleted as the install process proceeds.

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