Webcam Photo Booth
Take photos with your webcam. Apply filters and effects in real-time.
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Use your webcam to take photos with real-time filters including grayscale, sepia, invert, and more. Download captured photos instantly.
A photo booth that runs entirely inside the browser tab. Click Start Camera, grant the browser's permission prompt, and a live preview opens at up to 1280x720. Six filter options apply to the preview in real time: grayscale, sepia, invert, a 3-pixel blur, a brightness boost, and none. Because the filter renders on the live feed, you see exactly what the photo will look like before you take it, and the same filter is baked into the captured image rather than added afterwards.
Capturing draws the current video frame onto a canvas at the camera's native stream resolution and produces a PNG, named with a timestamp like photo-1717999200000.png, ready to download. The captured still appears below the live view so you can compare, retake, or save. The camera has an explicit Stop button that releases the hardware (your camera indicator light turns off), and leaving the page does the same automatically.
The video stream is consumed only by the page itself: nothing is recorded, no frames are transmitted, and the only data that ever exists is the single PNG you choose to capture, which stays on your machine. Beyond selfies, this is a quick way to grab a profile photo without transferring files from a phone, to confirm a webcam works before an interview, or to snapshot something physical, like a whiteboard or a serial number, using a laptop camera.
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Start the camera
Click Start Camera and accept the browser permission prompt. A live preview appears in the frame at up to 1280x720.
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Choose a filter
Pick from six filters including grayscale, sepia, invert, blur, and brightness. The live preview updates instantly so you see the final look.
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Capture and save
Click Capture Photo to freeze the frame with the filter applied, then download the PNG or discard it and take another.
Profile pictures
Take a headshot directly on your laptop for Slack, GitHub, or a company directory, skipping the phone-to-computer transfer.
Webcam check
Confirm your camera works and review your framing and lighting before a video interview or an important call.
Quick documentation
Snapshot a whiteboard, a handwritten note, or a device serial number using the laptop camera instead of your phone.
Filtered selfies
Try sepia or invert for a stylized avatar or a fun team photo without installing any photo app.
Is my camera feed recorded or uploaded?
No. The stream renders only inside the page and no video is recorded at all. The single frame you capture becomes a PNG that exists on your device alone, and pressing Stop Camera or closing the tab releases the hardware.
What resolution are the photos?
The tool requests a 1280x720 stream and captures at whatever resolution your camera actually delivers, so the saved PNG matches the live feed pixel for pixel.
The camera will not start. What is wrong?
Most often the permission was denied: check the camera icon in the address bar and allow access. The camera may also be held by another app like Zoom; close it and retry. Browsers also require an HTTPS connection for camera access.
Are filters applied to the saved photo or only the preview?
Both. The filter you select is applied to the canvas at capture time, so the downloaded PNG matches exactly what you saw in the live preview.
What format does the download use?
PNG, with a timestamp filename such as photo-1717999200000.png so successive shots never overwrite each other. PNG is lossless, keeping the saved file identical to the captured frame.