Every printed or shared photo is composited from a template you design here – a layered arrangement of backgrounds, photo slots, your logo, guest drawings, and text. This editor has been rebuilt from the ground up compared to the older app, with a lot more precision control than a simple drag-and-drop.
Where to find it
Admin Panel -> Print Layout, with 3 separate tabs – Single Shot, Multi Shot, and Strip Prints – each with its own independent template.
What you’re building
A stack of layers, drawn bottom to top: Background, up to 4 Photo Slots (Single Shot only ever uses 1), two Overlay layers (for logos), a Signature layer (where a guest’s Draw step drawing lands, in Signature mode), and a free-text Text layer. Every layer that applies to a shot type is already there, just possibly switched off – there’s no separate “add a layer” step.
Selecting and moving a layer
Click a layer on the canvas, or select it from the layer list on the right – both stay in sync, so either way works. The selected layer shows resize handles and turns the cursor into a hand while you hover over it.
For an image layer (a logo or background with transparent areas), only the visible, non-transparent part of the image can be dragged – clicking a transparent area clicks through to whatever’s underneath, the same way it would in an image editor. Text layers don’t have this restriction, since there’s no transparency to click through.
Holding Shift or Ctrl while dragging temporarily turns off snapping, for fine positioning that doesn’t want to lock to a guide line (see Snapping, below).
Resizing
A selected layer shows 8 handles – one on each corner, and one on the middle of each edge:
- Corner handles resize both width and height together.
- Edge handles resize only that one dimension (top/bottom edges change height only; left/right edges change width only).
Hold Shift while dragging a corner handle to resize while keeping the layer’s original aspect ratio locked (Shift doesn’t do anything on an edge handle, since those only ever affect one dimension anyway). Hold Ctrl while resizing to temporarily turn off snapping. Shift and Ctrl work independently, so holding both locks the aspect ratio and resizes freely without snapping.
Rotating
A small round handle sits just above the top-centre resize handle, joined to it by a thin guide line. Drag it to rotate the layer around its own centre – the layer spins in place rather than drifting, and the Rotate field in the sidebar updates live as you drag (and dragging the sidebar’s Rotate value spins the layer on canvas, the same relationship in reverse).
Hold Shift while rotating to snap to 15-degree increments, which makes it easy to get a layer to exactly 0/15/30/45/90 degrees and so on.
Snapping
While dragging or resizing, magenta guide lines appear whenever a layer’s edge or centre lines up with the canvas’s own edges/centre, or with another layer’s edges/centre – letting you line things up precisely without typing exact numbers. Snapping is on by default; holding Shift or Ctrl (as described above) turns it off temporarily.
Snap assistance during resizing only applies to layers that aren’t rotated at an angle (a layer left at its default rotation, or rotated to exactly 180 degrees, still snaps normally) – a layer rotated to an angle in between resizes without snap assistance, so don’t be surprised if guide lines don’t appear on a rotated layer.
Zoom and pan
Zoom (10%-300%) and pan are just for editing comfort – they never affect what actually gets printed. Use the +/- buttons or slider in the status bar, or hold Ctrl and scroll the mouse wheel to zoom in and out centred on your cursor. Hold Alt and scroll the mouse wheel to pan sideways instead of the normal up/down scroll.
Reset and the automatic zoom when you open a tab aren’t the same thing – a tab opens zoomed to fit the whole canvas, but pressing Reset afterward returns to a fixed 30% instead. Fit returns to the fit-to-canvas view, and 100% shows the template at its true print resolution.
Drag a layer off the edge of the canvas and it’s shown dimmed with a hatched pattern rather than disappearing – a visual warning that it won’t appear in the final print, not an error.
Showing or hiding a layer
Every layer has an Enabled toggle in the sidebar. Switching it off hides that layer from the canvas completely and leaves it out of the composited photo, without deleting anything – switch it back on any time to bring it back exactly as it was.
Undo and Redo
The Undo/Redo buttons cover moving, resizing, and rotating a layer, adding or removing a layer, and changing which image an Overlay/Background layer uses. They don’t cover text content, font, colour, or the Enabled toggle – those changes can’t currently be undone, so double-check a text edit before moving on rather than relying on Undo to catch a mistake.
Other tools on this screen
Undo/Redo, an Orientation switch (Portrait/Landscape – this resizes the canvas but doesn’t automatically reposition existing layers, so check everything still fits after switching), Import/Export as a ZIP file for backing up or moving a template between machines, and “Add PNG” to bring a new logo image into the picker.
Do you have to build one from scratch?
No – Booth Junkie ships with starter templates already laid out for all three shot types, including a working Signature layer position, so Print and Draw have something to composite onto from day one. It’s still worth opening each tab and checking your backgrounds/logos actually appear as expected before your first real event, rather than assuming everything’s ready untouched.