What the software actually does

At the camera

Capture

The camera is driven directly rather than through a generic driver, so the booth screen shows what the lens sees.

• Canon DSLR and mirrorless over USB, with live view on the booth screen so nobody is cut off at the edge of the print.
• UVC webcams as an alternative, including the machine’s built-in camera.
• Green screen and blue screen with guests stepping through your backgrounds on a live feed before they take a single photo.
• Photo filters the guest picks: full colour, Glam, Cartoon or Line Art.
• Single, multi and strip sessions, each with its own sequence and its own print layout.

On the screen

The guest experience

Everything the guest touches is yours to lay out, per event, without leaving the application.

• Signing and drawing in a fixed panel or across the whole photo, converted to a neon line automatically.
• Several people at once multiple signatures on the touchscreen simultaneously.
• Emoji, stickers and stamps added before the photo prints.
• Preview and retake so the guest sees the photo properly and can go again if they want to.
• Animations between steps in MP4 and most other common formats.
• A second screen runs a live slideshow of the event as it happens.

The Print Layout editor

A layered canvas, closer to a design package than to a template picker. Backgrounds, up to four photo slots, two overlay layers for logos, the guest’s signature and a free text layer, each selected on the canvas or from the layer list.

• Drag, resize and rotate with eight handles, aspect ratio locked on Shift, and rotation snapping to 15 degree steps.
• Alignment guides appear as you drag, when an edge or centre lines up with the canvas or with another layer.
• Transparency aware — clicking a transparent part of a logo clicks through to the layer beneath, as it would in an image editor.
• Zoom from 10% to 300% for close work, and hold Shift or Ctrl to position freely without snapping.
• Separate templates for single shot, multi shot and strip prints.

The Screen Layout editor

The same idea applied to what the guest sees. Each stage of a session — animation, selection, live view, print and preview — has its own layout, edited the same way.

• Position anything on screen by dragging it, with the canvas and the element list kept in sync.
• Switch elements off individually rather than deleting them, and back on whenever you want them.
• Nothing can leave the screen — elements are always kept fully inside the canvas.
• Deliberately simpler than the print editor: this is positioning live elements, some of them video, not composing a print.

Everything except AI works offline

SMS, WhatsApp, email, Facebook, the online gallery, FTP, Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive all go into the Upload Queue rather than sending immediately. Run the whole event with no connection at all, bring the booth online the next day, and everything sends by itself.

Nothing is quietly lost

Each item shows as queued, uploading, error or failed, with the real reason from the server rather than a generic message. Failures retry automatically, backing off between attempts, and a mistyped number or address can be corrected and sent again.

External devices

PacDrive, I-PAC and the Phidget range for control boards, plus the Booth Junkie USB Animated LED Ring Light and the Remote Key Fob for operating the booth from your pocket.

Unattended running

An animated lock screen holds the booth until you unlock it, and third-party payment modules such as Nayax can charge per session.

Help without a site visit

Support can connect to the booth to see what you are seeing and fix it while you are still on site. A striped border and an on-screen message appear whenever someone is actually controlling the machine.