Photo Settings

What is it?

The Photo Settings section allows you to configure settings for photo capture, printing, countdowns, image quality, and post-processing in your event. It enables users to customize aspects such as the number of photos taken, print layout, countdown durations, image quality, overlays, post-processing effects and more.

In this Guide

Number of Photos Taken

Set the number of photos the camera will take, by setting the Number of photos to a number between 1 and 10.

Number of Prints

The "Number of prints" setting sets the number of copies to be printed unless it is overridden in the confirm printing screen. The "Max number of prints" setting specifies the maximum number of copies that the user can select in the confirm printing screen.

Countdown

Set the "Countdown first photo" to the duration in seconds to use for the countdown before taking the first photo. Set the "Countdown remaining photo" to the duration in seconds to use for the countdown before taking the remaining photos.

These settings are ignored if an animated GIF or video animation is used for the countdown. When an animation is used for the countdown the duration of the countdown will be determined by the length of the animation.

Preview Photo

An optional preview photo can be displayed after taking each photo. The "Photo preview time" specifies how long the preview should be displayed in seconds. Set this to 0 to disable the preview photo.

Image Quality

Use the "JPEG quality" setting to specify the JPEG image quality when saving photos. A setting of 1 will give the maximum quality and largest file size. Setting it to a smaller value will use more compression and result in smaller file sizes but with some loss in quality.

Hide Live View

Normally live view images are displayed in the stills ready screen but this can be disabled (e.g. for a menu screen) by selecting "Hide live view" in ready screen.

Save Individual Photos

Select "Save individual photos" to save a JPEG copy of each original photo taken during the shooting sequence.

Warning: If this option is not enabled, the original images from the camera will not be saved to your device.

Processed Copy of Photos

Select "Save copy of processed photos" to save a JPEG copy of each photo taken by the camera after applying any effects such as color filter styles, AI/FX or virtual props etc. The processed photos can be adjusted, resized and have an overlay applied by clicking on the "Settings..." button.

See the guide on Processed Photos for more details

Sharpen Photos

Select "Sharpen photos in print layout" to sharpen each photo before adding it to the print layout. The "Unsharp mask intensity" and "Unsharp mask radius" settings control the type and amount of sharpening. (More information about sharpening can be found by searching the internet for "Unsharp mask").

Countdown

The "Countdown text" specifies how the countdown text should be formatted during the countdown before taking each photo. It can use the following tokens:

Token Description

{photoboothImage}

the number of the photo in the sequence e.g. 1 for the first, 2 for the second etc.

{photoboothNumImages}

the total number of photos in the shooting sequence

{secsToNextPhoto}

the number of seconds remaining in the countdown before taking the next photo

Please note: This setting is ignored if an animated GIF or video animation is used for the countdown. In this case the length of the countdown will be determined by the length of the GIF or video.

Filename Suffix

The "Overlay/background filename suffix" provides a way of dynamically selecting different overlays and backgrounds for prints. Normally the filename for the background image used for prints is background.jpg and the overlay is overlay.png but this can be modified to dynamically select different overlay and background images using information such as the time, user responses to surveys or random numbers. The suffix is also applied to backgrounds and overlays added to slideshow GIFs.

Please see Print Layout Editor and GIF Layout Editor for information on how to use this setting.

The overlay/background suffix can also be used to select the countdown and preview screens. One use for this is when using a survey to select different backgrounds when using AI background removal.

Overlay Blend Mode

The overlay blend mode can be selected using the overlay blend mode dropdown list. This controls how the optional print overlay image, overlay.png, is blended with the print layout.

The following blend modes are available:

normal

lighten

overlay

screen

hard light

soft light

multiply

difference

exclusion

color dodge

color dodge

color burn

hue

saturation

color

luminosity

Use an image editor such as Photoshop that supports levels and blend modes to see the effect of different blend modes on overlays applied to photos.

Printer ID

The "Printer Id" setting is used to provide additional information about printing in the photo booth XML summary file written at the end of the sequence. This information can be used by printing utilities such as Breeze Hub to select different printers or printer settings e.g. the printer id could be set to 6x4 to indicate printing on 6" x 4" paper and 6x20 for printing on panoramic 6" x 20" paper.

Select "Display print preview" to display the print layout in the confirm printing screen after taking the photos. The confirm printing screen gives the user the option to accept or reject the photos or to select the number of copies to print.

You must also add the associated touch screen actions to the confirm_printing screen in the Touch Screen Editor to enable Confirm / Reject prints etc

Print Preview Time Out

Set the timeout to the number of seconds the confirm printing screen should be displayed before it is closed automatically. Set "Accept prints after timeout" to automatically accept the prints if the timeout occurs otherwise they will be cancelled and the photo booth will return to the ready screen.

Number of Prints Color

Us the "# Prints font color" to specify the color of the number of print copies indicator displayed in the confirm printing screen.

Please note that the size and position of the text is determined by the size and position of the increase/decrease copies touchscreen actions. The size is set to the height of the touchscreen actions and the position is set to be mid way between the two actions.

Countdown Color

Us the "Countdown text color" to specify the color of the countdown.

Select "Print payment mode" to enable payment mode when printing from the print confirmation screen or the gallery. When print payment mode is selected and the user taps the "stillsPrintsAccept" touchscreen action the print payment screen will be displayed until a payment is made or the payment is cancelled or the payment timeout occurs. Define a "stillsPrintsAcceptWithoutPrinting" touchscreen action if you want the user to be able to accept the photos without printing them.

Please see "Payment Systems" section for more information about accepting payments.

Post Processing / AI Processing

Select "Enable post processing" to allow photos to be post processed by web based services such as Breeze Fx to modify photos before they are added to the print layout. The post processing can be used to add AI image processing or to perform other actions such as running a Photoshop droplet on the photo.

Post URL

Enter the URL to post process the photo e.g. https://yoursite.com/postprocess.php. The image is sent to the URL together with the any survey inputs and other data as a multi-part form using an HTTP POST. The image will be sent as JPEG data unless AI background removal with a transparent background is selected in which case it will be sent as a PNG image. The image data returned from the web server can be accepted as either and JPEG image or a PNG image.

Resizing Image

The image data sent to server can be resized before sending by setting the "Max image size (pixels)". The image will be resized to fit within a square bounding box specified by the max image size. Set the max image size to 0 to disable the resizing.

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