[1][2] Photo Booth was released in October 2005 and was originally available only on Macintosh computers that had a built-in iSight camera running Mac OS X Tiger.

[3] Photo Booth displays a preview showing the camera's view in real time.

[4] Photo Booth was first introduced by Apple in 2005 with the release of iMac G5, which featured a built-in iSight camera.

The first set contains photographic filters similar to those in Adobe Photoshop; additional effects may be downloaded from websites.

From Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to macOS 10.15 Catalina, the user could apply backdrops to provide an effect similar to a green screen.