I have an older windows XP laptop I use for arduino coding that I thought would serve well To complete the project there were several pieces of equipment that I would need to put together to complete the photo booth. In the end it worked out just fine, and no one seemed to mind. That is more interaction than I originally wanted, but really couldn't figure an easy way around it. I did get away from one of my requirements here by forcing our guests to cut the print in half. We'll take all of the copies and eventually frame them into what will be our guest book. The idea here was that after the photos have printed our guests could cut the photo in half with a pair of scissors, taking one copy of the print with them and dropping the other copy in a box for us. Four photos per page, with the set of four duplicated on one 4圆 print. There print options provided by the software were overkill for what I needed, and it really only took a few test prints to get exactly what I wanted. The screen image does not contain any text, but the software will display a countdown timer and show what picture it is currently taking.ĭisplayed before the camera snaps the picture for ~ 1 sec.ĭisplayed after all the pictures have been taken, a progress will show as the final photo strip image is created and sent to the printer. I created 4 screens that the user would see with different static text.ĭisplays a quick instruction on how to start the photo booth.

These custom screens allowed me to reuse some graphics from our wedding website, and although I'm sure no one noticed I thought that this was a nice touch. The software allows you to design custom display screens with operating instructions to the people in the booth. There were versions of the software for both Canon & Nikon cameras, and the price was very reasonable when compared to the cost of the commercial photo booth software I found. This has a photo booth mode that looked perfect, with just enough customization to get what I wanted. I couldn't justify a new computer for this project!Īfter looking at the price and features I settled on DSLR Remote Pro. Since I was attempting to make due with many of the resources I had around the house I was limited to a windows operating system, and all of the apple solutions were no longer an option. That is the limit to the user interaction that I wanted. I wanted something that automated the entire process, you click a button and eventually your photos get printed out. The first item that I solved was what photo booth software to use.

Photobooth guest book