Using the Template Library

Open the library

1. Go to Admin Panel → Print Layout and choose Single Shot, Multi Shot or Strip Prints.

2. Press Template library on the toolbar, between Redo and Import ZIP.

   

   Result: The window titled Template Library: Single Shot opens (or Multi Shot, or Strip Prints).

The library opens straight away with the list saved on this PC, and checks the Booth Junkie site for new and changed templates at the same time.

Find a template

Use the search box, the two lists and Refresh along the top of the window, and the page buttons under the tiles:

• Type in the search box (“Search by name, category, tag or description…”). Every word you type has to match, so typing two words shows only the templates that match both.
• Choose a category from the All Categories list, or Landscape or Portrait from the Any orientation list, to narrow what’s shown.
• Press Refresh to ask the Booth Junkie site for new and changed templates. The line under the search box says when the list was last updated, or “The list has not been downloaded yet.”
• Use ◀ Previous and Next ▶ to move between pages. Six templates show at a time.

Read the tiles

Each tile shows the template’s picture, its name, and its orientation and number of photos, such as “Landscape · 3 photos”. While a picture is still on its way, the tile says “Downloading preview…”.

A badge in the corner tells you more:

Check a template first

1. Click a tile to select it. Nothing is installed yet.

   

2. Read the panel under the tiles. It shows:

   • the template’s name;
   • its category, orientation, number of photo windows and download size, such as “Kids Party · Landscape · 1 photo · 1.6 MB”;
   • its description;
   • the fonts it brings with it, such as “Fonts: Bangers (included)”. You don’t need to install these yourself.

3. Read the note underneath, if there is one. It tells you anything worth knowing first:

   If the note says	What it means
   “A newer edition of this template is available: installing it replaces the one this layout was made from.”	The library has a newer edition of the template this tab’s layout was installed from. See Keep a template up to date, below.
   “This layout was installed from this template.”	The layout on this tab came from this template. Its tile shows Installed.
   “A copy of this template is saved on this PC, so it can be installed again without the internet.”	You’ve downloaded this edition before, so installing it again doesn’t need the internet.
   “An earlier edition of this template is saved on this PC. With the internet, installing downloads the current edition; without it, installing uses the earlier one.”	Connect to the internet before you install if you want the current edition.
   “Downloading templates needs an active Premium licence. You can look at them here, but not install them.”	This licence doesn’t have an active Premium. See What needs Premium, below.
   “This template needs version … of the software or newer (this is version …). Update the software to use it.”	The template needs a newer version of Booth Junkie than the one on this PC. Use this template stays off for it until the software is updated.
   “This template has 3 photo windows, but your Multi Shot workflow takes 4 photos. Some of the photos would not appear on the print. Change the number of photos on the Workflows tab, or choose a template with 4 windows.”	The template’s photo windows don’t match your workflow (the numbers are an example). When the template has more windows than your workflow takes photos, it says “Some windows would stay empty.” instead. Installing a template never changes your workflow, so sort out a mismatch on the Workflows tab, or choose a different template.

Install a template

1. Select the template and press Use this template.

2. Read the Replace layout box, then press Yes to go ahead. No leaves everything as it was.

   

3. Wait while Booth Junkie downloads the template, showing its progress, then installs it.

   If you’ve downloaded this edition on this PC before, it uses the copy it kept instead, showing “Getting “…” from this PC…”, and nothing is downloaded.

   To stop a download part-way, press Close. Press it again to close the window.

   Result: The window closes and the tab shows the new layout.

4. Press Save to keep it.

Once it’s installed, you can adjust the layout in the editor as usual, for example to type your own wording into its text.

Next time you open the library on this tab, the template you installed shows Installed (or Update available, if the library couldn’t be reached and an earlier edition saved on this PC was installed; see Work offline, below).

What installing changes

• Replaces the layout on this tab only. The other two tabs are untouched.
• Can change the tab’s Orientation to match the template.
• Switches off any layer the template doesn’t use, so nothing from your old layout shows through.
• Adds the template’s fonts to Booth Junkie’s own font library, so its text looks as designed. Nothing is installed into Windows. If the text still uses a font this PC doesn’t have, a Font missing box names it, and that text is drawn in a different font until the font is installed.

Keep a template up to date

When the library has a newer edition of the template a tab was installed from, that template’s tile shows Update available.

1. Select the tile that shows Update available.

2. Press Use this template again.

3. Press Yes in the Replace layout box, then press Save once the new edition is in place, just as in Install a template, above.

Work offline

What needs Premium

Browsing the library is free on any licence: you can open it, search, filter and look at every template’s details. Installing a template needs an active Premium.

Without an active Premium:

• each tile shows 🔒 Premium;
• Use this template stays greyed out;
• select a tile and the note under the tiles says “Downloading templates needs an active Premium licence. You can look at them here, but not install them.”

If Premium lapses

A layout installed from the library keeps printing its own artwork, the Background, Overlay1 and Overlay2 pictures, only while Premium is active. Once Premium has lapsed:

The artwork comes back by itself once Premium is renewed, with nothing to download again or set up.

When you open the Admin Panel, and again after Load or Reset Settings, a Premium has expired box names the tabs affected: “The Single Shot Print Layout was installed from the Template Library, which needs an active Premium licence. Its own artwork will not print until Premium is renewed — choose a different layout on the Print Layout tab, or renew Premium.”

Layouts you built yourself, or imported with Import ZIP from a ZIP that didn’t come from the library, are never affected. A library layout saved with Export ZIP still counts as a library layout on any PC it’s imported on.

Check or renew Premium

Every Lifetime Licence includes 12 months of Premium. The licence itself never expires: when Premium ends, only the features that need it stop.

• To check where your Premium stands, look at Premium services and Premium expiry under Admin Panel → Options → General.
• You can renew Premium at any time from Your Licences on your account Dashboard. See Your Licences: Machine Status, Renewals, and Remote Control.

Messages you might see

Look up a message here if you’re not sure what it means or what to do next.

Related articles

• Building a Print Layout Template — using the editor to adjust a layout or build your own
• Single Shot Print Layouts
• Multi Shot Print Layouts
• Strip Print Layouts
• Styling Print Text: Text 1, Text 2, Fonts and Effects — fonts, outlines, shadows and glows for a layout’s text
• Photo Booth Templates — where else to get templates, and what Booth Junkie needs from one