Photo Booth background problem

On my Mac when I go on Photo Booth all the effects work apart from the backgrounds with the roller coaster and the fish ext. It just loads the background then dosent put me in it   I have a logitech c270 webcam.

This is the IPhoto forum. You need to try the 10.7 forum. You'll find a link to this here
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os

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    My backgrounds in Photo Booth don't seem to be working right, assuming I'm doing it right. I can't find any kind of tutorial on it on the Apple web site. When I choose the background, and it says to step out of the frame, I do so, but then when I return to the frame, my face is totally pixelated and some of the surrounding background bleeds through. What I am doing wrong?

    Everyone is having this problem.
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    raphael

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    This is the same way they use blue-screens (or green) in the movie business. With the same problems.
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    After installing 10.5.2, I've not been able to get a "moving" background for Photo Booth. It simply immediately says "Background Detected." It also leaves the shadow of the cut-out person still there. Could it have anything to do with my new camera? (Sony DCR-HC52) It still works fine for the other effects, just not the background ones. Any thoughts? Thanks!

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    i checked the audio settings, the audio midi settings, all are fine.
    when i switched audio input and output to internal mic and default output,
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    I even restarted the laptop many times.
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    < Edited by Host >

    Some ideas you can consider:
    (1) Your system info shows Mac OS X (10.5.6)
    If this is correct, use your Mac's Disk Utility to repair permissions. Then download and install the latest version of Leopard:
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    Mac Pro Quad Core (Early 2009) 2.93Ghz w/Mac OS X (10.6.1)  MacBook Pro (13 inch, Mid 2009) 2.26GHz (10.6.1)
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  • Photo booth effects problems.

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  • Photo Booth backgrounds won't work.

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