Setting up Cheese

4.1 The preferences dialog

The preferences dialog allows you to set up some webcam specific parameters and parameters specific to the burst mode. If you have more than one webcam or video device attached to your system, the preferences dialog allows you to choose which one you would like to use for Cheese and what resolution the image should have. Use the sliders to play around with the brightness, contrast, saturation and hue values to find the best for your webcam.

Рисунок 5Cheese preferences screenshot

The parameters for the burst mode can be set in the preferences dialog as well. You only have to adjust the values for the number of photos you wish to take and the delay in seconds between each picture taken.

4.2 GConf settings

It's possible to define where Cheese stores the captured media (photos and videos). These settings are stored in GConf. You can change the settings with the gconf-editor, application. There you have to select /apps/cheese in the tree on the left. Then you can set the video_path and photo_path to the location you prefer. There you can also set other parameters for Cheese, but you should use the preferences dialog for a controlled access.

Attention: Be careful while using GConf to change your settings! If you are not completely sure about what you are doing, you should ask someone who knows!