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👩🏻‍🏫🛠️A new addition and functionality to the Apple Video Gestures menu

I wrote about this upgrade to Apple computers awhile ago, but recently I noticed some new functionality. One of the issues with the gestures in the past was that they didn’t really work with a fake backround. Apple did a stealth upgrade/update and…

Now you can choose a background and still use your gestures, awesome!

There are 3 different groups of backgrounds, gradient colors (kind of plain).

Some pre-made images (maybe one suits you, I used the rainbow with a 4 year old today, big hit).

And even an area to upload your own (seems to be limited to 9).

They were horribly blurry and very badly lit until I turned off the studio light and portrait modes, so don’t forget to do that, or fine tune them for the effect you are after.

The quality of the combined image is quite good with only my microphone looking strange, and I bet it would be even better with a proper green-screen. I really need to get one…

If you use a Mac, give it a try, I use the gestures daily!