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Create a Mirror Photo Booth with Darkroom Booth
Many Darkroom Booth users have asked if Booth photo booth software can be used for a Mirror booth and the answer is yes and it isn’t hard at all. As you will see, the hardest part is coming up with the graphic elements. Here is a demonstration of video graphics...
How to create Boomerang-style Animated GIFs with Darkroom Booth
Creating a Boomerang-style animated gif with Darkroom Booth is easy and doesn’t require any special templates or add on software. Simply create a regular GIF and add a template for each photo in order such that they play forward and then in reverse. That way the GIF...
Troubleshooting Tips for Darkroom Booth
This PDF contains some of the most often troubleshooting tips for Darkroom Booth photo booth software shared by the Darkroom support team. Click here to download Darkroom Booth Troubleshooting Tips
Photo Booth Cables, Connectors and Hubs oh my!
In this video Wally Carnes, Darkroom Software operations manager, demonstrates cables, connectors and USB hubs for event and photo booth printers, DSLR cameras, computers and tablets. He explains the different types of USB and video cables available and why it is...
A Wise Idea – No LiveView, No Problem
Did you know…If you do not add a live-view to a screen template, Darkroom Booth will automatically use the next available photo object as the live-view. This is really helpful when you need the live-view to move throughout your screen template. This is also helpful if...
Level Up Your Booth Presentations: Style Your Dynamic Tex
Did you know… You can style the dynamic text that shows up in the text tab by using the “Insert Special Text” button. By “Style” we are referring to font type, size, color, opacity, along with many other options. You can set your countdown to be 300 points and 50%...
10 Things You Don’t Know About Darkroom Booth
Darkroom Booth software is deep and truly gives you the freedom to do just about anything with your photo booth experience. All while maintaining simplicity. We are amazed every day at the cool things some of our customers are doing. And hardly a day goes by when we...
Top 5 Reasons to Keep Your Photo Booth Software up to Date
Keeping your photo booth software up to date is important for several reasons. Here are a few of the more important reasons… 1. Support for the latest cameras, printers, computers and operating systems. By keeping your photo booth software up to date you are ensuring...
Photo Booth Video Prompts with Darkroom
With Darkroom Booth 2 you can replace text instructions with video prompts. In this example we used a dancing Santa video with a transparent alpha channel overlaid on a screen shot of the screen display. After adding an appropriate voiceover with instructions we added...
New Webinar: Photo Booth Troubleshooting Basics
This webinar will cover basic photo booth troubleshooting procedures and techniques. Thursday December 3, 2015, 11am – 12pm CST Topics to be covered include: • Printer connectivity and settings• Basic software troubleshooting• Lighting issues• Camera connectivity and...
Next Webinar: Darkroom Booth Template Design Basics
Post to “Anywhere” with Darkroom Booth and Dropbox
Use an Automator to Post to “Anywhere” Flickr, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, the list goes on and the requests from your clients get trickier and seem to change by the week! Unlock the social potential of your photo booth with Darkroom Booth photo booth...
Phidget for Darkroom Booth
One of the new additions to Darkroom Booth 2 is Phidget control. Phidgets are “Products for USB Sensing and Control”. Huh? Phidgets is a company that makes little boards that can connect to your computer with a USB cable. On the other end of the board, you can plug in...
Imaging USA Show Specials
If you will be in Nashville for Imaging USA please visit us at Booth 655. We will showing some exciting new features soon to be added to Darkroom Booth, Core and Pro software. You can take advantage of the following show specials on our website through Friday February...
Lighting for Green Screen photography and Darkroom Software
The key to great results with Chroma-key backgrounds is good, consistent lighting. The examples below illustrate different lighting and exposures and the results. All of these images were processed with the default settings in Darkroom Booth photo booth software. The...
Free Holiday Photo Booth Templates with Sound & Matching Prints
Here are a couple of holiday themed templates that you can easily customize and use for your holiday photo booth events. These templates are available as a free download and include sounds and a matching 2×6 print layout. Check out the preview videos to see how they...
Top Considerations When Building Your Own Photo Booth
Building your own photo booth? Based on experience from building my own photo booths and helping Darkroom customers as well, here are some things to consider when looking at hardware options. Camera Most first time photo booth builders go for the least expensive...
Will My Templates work in Darkroom Booth Photo Booth Software?
“I’ve been using different photo booth software and I want to upgrade to Darkroom Booth. Will my old print templates work with Darkroom Booth?” Yes! We’ve helped many photo booth owners and operators make the switch to Darkroom Booth and one of their favorite features...
Windows 10 – Should I update my photo booth or event photo system?
UPDATE: Windows 10 has since been released and there are no known issues when used with Darkroom products.Microsoft is set to release Windows 10 on July 29th and it will be a free upgrade to all current Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 user. The Darkroom team has tested all of...
How to use Arcade style buttons with Darkroom Booth
There are 2 ways to use arcade buttons with Darkroom Booth. One is to use a USB mouse and take it apart and replace the original mouse buttons with arcade buttons. This will require some minor soldering but is not complex. You can use an inexpensive mouse that can be...