Building a Print Layout Template

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;
• the photo layers: Photo, plus Photo 2 to Photo 4 on Multi Shot and Strip Prints;
• two Overlay layers, Overlay1 and Overlay2, for logos;
• a Signature layer, where a guest’s Draw step drawing lands, in Signature mode;
• two independent text layers, Text 1 and Text 2, each with its own font, size, colour and effects.

Single Shot also has a Photo – original layer for before-and-after prints, and every shot type has a Gallery QR code layer.

Select and move a layer

1. Click a layer on the canvas, or select it from the layer list on the right. Both stay in sync, so either way works.

   Result: The selected layer shows resize handles and turns the cursor into a hand while you hover over it.

2. Drag it into place.

   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).

3. To deselect, click anywhere that isn’t a layer, such as the area round the canvas.

   Result: The handles go away and the Properties box empties.

Resize a layer

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).

Rotate a layer

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).

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.

Zoom and pan

Zoom (10%-300%) and pan are just for editing comfort – they never affect what actually gets printed.

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.

Need more room? Drag the divider between the canvas and the sidebar to make the sidebar wider or narrower, and drag the divider between the layer list and Properties to give either one more height.

Drag a layer off the edge of the canvas and it’s shown under a semi-transparent wash rather than disappearing – a visual warning that it won’t appear in the final print, not an error.

Show or hide 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 and Redo buttons cover dragging a layer on the canvas: moving, resizing and rotating it. You can also press Ctrl+Z to undo, and Ctrl+Y or Ctrl+Shift+Z to redo, while the Print Layout tab is on screen and you’re not typing in a box. Single Shot, Multi Shot and Strip Prints each keep their own history.

Photos, text and QR codes

• Crop a photo or cut it to a shape. Every photo layer can be zoomed in and cut to a circle, star or other shape, and Photo – original lets you show the guest’s photo from before AI beside the AI result. See Cropping and Cutting Photos to a Shape in a Print Layout.
• Fill a photo’s box without stretching it. A photo layer’s Fit is Stretch (the default, which squeezes the whole photo into the box) or Fill, which scales the photo without distorting it until it covers the box, and crops what hangs over the edges.
• Print a guest’s name. Type a Data Capture step’s token, such as {NAME}, into the Text box of Text 1 or Text 2, and every print shows what that guest answered. Each step’s Configure… window shows its token: {TEXT}, {NUMBER}, {EMAIL} or {CHOICE} unless you named it. See Using a Guest’s Name in Prints, Messages and AI Prompts.
• Style the text. Text 1 and Text 2 each have their own Font, Size (text too long for its box shrinks to fit, down to 40%), Align (Top or Centre), Style (bold, italic and colour), Outline, Shadow and Glow. See Styling Print Text: Text 1, Text 2, Fonts and Effects.
• Put a QR code to the online gallery on every print. Switch on the Gallery QR code layer. See Putting a Gallery QR Code on Your Prints.

Other tools on this screen

The toolbar along the top of each tab has, from left to right:

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.

You can also start from one of Booth Junkie’s ready-made designs with Template library (installing needs an active Premium).

Templates from outside Booth Junkie work too: any PNG with transparency can be used as an overlay, so designs you already own carry over. Photo Booth Templates lists the design studios that sell them.