Setting Up Your First Event: A Checklist

The checklist

1. Camera. Connect your DSLR or webcam and confirm it’s detected on the Camera tab.

   If you’re using a DSLR in a venue with unusual lighting, set up your Tv/Av/ISO overrides now rather than during setup at the venue.

2. Print Layout. Open each shot type’s tab (Single/Multi/Strip) you plan to use and check your background and logo actually appear as expected.

   The starter templates are already laid out, but it’s worth confirming your own artwork loads correctly rather than assuming it does.

   If you’d rather start from a ready-made design, each tab’s Template library button lists Booth Junkie’s layouts for that shot type. Anyone can browse them; installing one needs an active Premium. See Using the Template Library.

3. Choose and check your workflow. Decide which shot types you’re offering, and look through each one’s row list on the Workflows tab.

   There’s no validation to catch an obviously broken sequence, so it’s worth reading through it yourself.

4. Screen Layout. Position each screen’s elements – Selection, Live View, Print Screen, Preview Screen, Animation Screens – to match your resolution and orientation.

5. Sharing. Turn on whichever of Gallery upload, SMS, WhatsApp, Email, Facebook, Dropbox, Google Drive, and FTP you’re actually offering – each has its own page on the Sharing tab.

   WhatsApp, texts sent through Booth Junkie’s own SMS service, and emails sent through Booth Junkie’s own mail server need an active Premium.

   Set your sharing disclaimer text if the default doesn’t suit you.

6. Extras, if you’re using them. Green Screen (tune Sensitivity against your actual backdrop and lighting), Draw step colours/emoji, Light Ring/Magic Eye if you have one connected, Secondary Display if you have a second monitor.

7. Before guests arrive. Run through a full session yourself, on the actual hardware, at the actual venue if possible.