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RightBooth Diamond Unlimited now includes the ability to use a second computer for printing user's photos and emailing user's files while the event is being played on a first computer.
This can provide a number of benefits, including reducing the workload on the first computer and also allowing guests to browse their previously taken photos on the second computer without interrupting the event on the first computer Read how to set all this up here
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IMPORTANT: Before you continue make sure you have downloaded and installed RightBooth version 6.5.0 (or later) as this version provides better layout support for Portrait oriented displays. You can get the latest version of RightBooth from our website.
Step 2 - Create a Mirror Booth event
RightBooth will now create a new event file with all event screens sized at 1080 x 1920 pixels, ideal for a mirror booth. Now save the event file, using the Save button on the main RightBooth window. And that's it ! You now have a basic Mirror Booth event. Try it out and see how it works. Now, keeping this event file loaded in RightBooth, let's explain a little bit more about what the app has created for you... The Mirror Booth event has been created for Photo capture only RightBooth has created an event file that simply allows users to take photos. This has been achieved as follows:
 Notice also in the screenshot that the event has been set to capture 3 Photos per user. This number can be anything from 1 to 10. Now in the Event Designer, switch to the Event structure tab, and in the Choose recording section, notice that the option: ‘Include the Choose recording screen’ has been unticked:  This has been done to prevent the Choose recording screen from being shown when the event is played, because the user will always be capturing photos. The Mirror Booth event has black screen backgrounds As mentioned, mirror booths work best with black screen backgrounds, so all screens in the event have been set to black. If you want to alter the background colour of all screens to black (or any other colour) manually, you can do this as follows: On the RightBooth main window, click the Edit button to go to the Screen Editor where you will be presented with the Start screen. To change the screen background colour, on the Screen editor toolbox, tick the Properties checkbox (as shown in the screen shot below) to reveal the Screen properties toolbox. On the Background section, select the solid colour option (red 1), then click the colour rectangle (red 2) and choose Black from the colour dialog popup window:  Your Start screen will now have a solid black background with white text on it. You then need to make the same colour change to all other screens in the event. The easiest way to do this is using the Formatter tool. On the Screen Editor toolbox, tick the ‘Formatter’ checkbox to show the Formatter toolbox. On the Formatter toolbox, click the button: Add background to all screens:  Click ‘Yes’ when asked if you want to continue. All screen backgrounds in the event will now be changed to solid black. Hiding the Live Webcam Feed Again as mentioned at the top of this article you should hide the live webcam feed because users will be looking at themselves in the mirror, so the feed is not required. So RightBooth has automatically removed the webcam feed from most screens, except for the 'Get ready' screen (we'll explain why later). Here's how you can manually remove the webcam item from a screen: On the Start screen, click on the webcam item to select it. Then press the Delete key on the keyboard to remove the webcam item from the Start screen. Note: You can also click the Bin tool on the Screen Editor toolbox to delete the item:  Notice that RightBooth has removed the webcam item from the Start screen, the Countdown screen and also from the Take photo screen. Now go to the Get ready screen. On this screen, rather than removing the webcam item RightBooth has moved it off the top edge of the screen. (We will explain why in a moment). To see this, on the Screen Editor toolbox, reduce the Zoom factor to about 0.5 using the ‘-‘ button. Notice that the webcam item is located above the top edge of the screen (in the light blue area) like this:  Return the Zoom factor back to 1 and the webcam will now be hidden above the top edge of the display.
The reason for doing this is that when you eventually come to play the event on the mirror booth, when taking photos with the webcam, the webcam needs to be switched on, so by leaving the webcam item on the Get ready screen, it will be switched on each time the Get ready screen is shown, and it will remain on while photos are captured. But then it will be turned off again when the system has returned to showing the Start screen, ready for the next user. Using a DSLR camera? If you are using a DSLR (rather than a webcam) to capture photos, no problem, simply set the option to capture photos from the DSLR in RightBooth settings. For more information on how to capture photos using your DSLR, please see the How To section on this website. Tidying Up A few other things that RightBooth has automatically done in the Mirror Booth event: On the Start screen The default text items have been removed from the screen. On the Show photo screen The photo capture placeholders have been arranged below the main photo. On Various Screens RightBooth has added a text sequence item to the Start screen, Take photo screen and Show photo screen, each containing various animated text prompts. Unlimited design potential... RightBooth can automatically create basic Mirror Booth event files. However, you can manually build upon this using the Designer and Editor to include further images, animated GIFs and video prompts to make your mirror booth product really stand out from the crowd. And don't forget you can also include lots of other features on your Mirror Booth, including video recording, overlay selection, video and photo signing, photo printing and user file emailing. So you would like to show the user's their video recordings played back in slow motion. Here's how:
 Job done ! Click Exit, save your event and play it. And now all the recorded videos will be played back to the users in slow motion. The Video Speed property can be set to any value from 0.01 to 30. A value less than 1 will slow down the playback speed and a value greater than 1 will speed up the playback. Examples:
Enjoy tinkering Starting with version 6.4.3, RightBooth will now alter its Windows Title each time a screen is displayed during an event. Consider a typical RightBooth event flow when taking a photo. The following event screens are displayed to the user:
And during this process RightBooth will now automatically alter its Window title (behind the scenes) as follows:
Armed with this information it is possible to use third party software designed to monitor Windows Title captions in order to trigger some form of external action to coincide with RightBooth event screen changes. One such package is AutoHotKey: https://www.autohotkey.com , a free, open source scripting language which among its many features offers the ability to monitor Window titles and then take some kind of action via scripting.
To run this script, make sure you have installed AutoHotKey, then download this file and double click it to run it. Then play an event and you should see a message box appear each time the Start and Thank you screens are shown by RightBooth.
Note: Rather than install AutoHotKey, if you just want to examine the contents of this file, it can be opened in Windows Notepad. Obviously this is a very basic example, but with this technique it is possible to synchronise running other programs and DLLs, sending keystrokes into the system, perform file system operations, control the mouse and play sounds etc. We know of one user who is using AutoHotKey scripting to turn his lighting rig on and off based upon the screen that RightBooth is currently displaying, e.g. turn the lighting rig on when the Countdown screen is shown and turn the rig off again when the Thank you screen is shown. Note: It is also possible to control external equipment directly from within RightBooth using a compatible USB relay switcher. For more details see this article. If you are playing a standard RightBooth event, you will notice that the webcam is turned on pretty much all the time.
The general rule is that the webcam is switched on whenever an event screen is displayed that contains a webcam item. To see this, open any standard event, visit the Screen Editor and look at the Start screen. Here you will see the screen contains a webcam item which provides the live feed from the camera. You can easily turn the webcam off by removing the webcam item from the Start screen. Then when you play the event:
It's as easy as that ! So let's say you want to allow your event users to optionally browse the web in a well controlled manner. This article explains a way of implement it in RightBooth. 1 - Add a New Screen to your event We are going to create a new screen in your event that users can choose to visit by linking it to a button on the Start screen. The new screen will contain a RightBooth Web browser item, which is a powerful, fully integrated web browser based upon Chromium (the product that Google uses to build its Chrome browser).
2 Add a Web Browser to the new Browser screen
 3 Add a Back button and a Keyboard Item to the Browser screen
 4 Add a Button on the Start screen Click 'Start' in the Screen Editor screen list to show the event Start screen. Click the 'Button' button on the 'Add Items' Toolbox to add a new button to the Start screen. Click on the new button to select it and to show its Button properties Click on the Action list (No 1 in the image below) and choose the action 'Show screen' Click in the Action parameter box (No 2 in the image below) and enter the name of the Browser screen in the Action text box panel...  You could also add a Label item to place alongside the button, that states something like: 'Browse the web'
Job Done ! Now when you play this event, your users can choose to click or touch the button on the Start screen to take them to your Browser screen, where they can interact with the web browser and use the on screen keyboard to enter text into any text box within it. And when they have finished browsing they can click on the Back button to return to the Start screen. It is now possible to show photo print layouts in thumbnail view when selecting layouts for reprinting in RightBooth's Event Tasks section.
Turning lights on and off at the start and end of each video recording or photo capture sequence19/7/2018 Starting with RightBooth v6.3 it is now possible to control any electrical device that has the ability to be switched on or off, such as a mains light, a motor or a fan. This is achieved using one of the following Denkovi relay boards... http://denkovi.com/usb-relay-board-four-channels-for-home-automation http://denkovi.com/usb-eight-channel-relay-board-for-automation The Denkovi connects to your computer via a USB cable. You can connect up to 8 items of switched equipment to the board’s relay connections and then use RightBooth to switch the equipment on and off at various times throughout the event. 1 - Connecting up your equipment You first need to install the driver software for the Denkovi. Full details on how to do this are available in the RightBooth User Manual. Then typically you would wire up an external light to the Denkovi as shown in the diagram below. Note that the Denkovi takes it's power from the computer via the USB connection.  2 - Using the Denkovi Board in RightBooth
You will have to close RightBooth and re-run it for these initial switch settings to take effect. Then each time you run RightBooth, the switches will be set to a known starting condition. 3 - Controlling the light during the event
To control the light you have two options: 1) You can change the switches whenever a chosen RightBooth event screen is displayed by using the Show action ‘Set switches’ OR 2) You can add a Click action ‘Set switches’ to any item on any event screen. This will allow your event users to turn the light on and off when they click (or touch) the item. Example 1 - Turn on Switch 1 when the 'Get ready' screen is shown
You could then do the same on the Thank you screen, this time entering '0000' to turn all 4 switches off after the video recording (or photo capture sequence) has finished. Example 2 – Allow the User to turn on the light If you want the user to be able to alter switches...
Other Switching Options The characters you can use for the switch commands are:
Here are some examples:
Starting with RightBooth 6.3.9 it is now possible to add photo filenames to event screens, photo printouts and user emails.
We have included the following new Text variables into RightBooth 6. These variables can be included in any label item on any event screen (including the Photo Print layout screen) and also included in any email Body text that can be sent to your users... {PHOTOFILENAMES} This variable is replaced by the filenames of all the photos captured by the current user, separated by commas. {PHOTOFILENAME1} This variable is replaced by the filename of photo no 1 captured by the current user. {PHOTOFILENAME2} This variable is replaced by the filename of photo no 2 captured by the current user. {PHOTOFILENAME3} This variable is replaced by the filename of photo no 3 captured by the current user. {PHOTOFILENAME4} This variable is replaced by the filename of photo no 4 captured by the current user. {PHOTOFILENAME5} This variable is replaced by the filename of photo no 5 captured by the current user. {PHOTOFILENAME6} This variable is replaced by the filename of photo no 6 captured by the current user. {PHOTOFILENAME7} This variable is replaced by the filename of photo no 7 captured by the current user. {PHOTOFILENAME8} This variable is replaced by the filename of photo no 8 captured by the current user. {PHOTOFILENAME9} This variable is replaced by the filename of photo no 9 captured by the current user. {PHOTOFILENAME10} This variable is replaced by the filename of photo no 10 captured by the current user. Remember to include the leading and trailing curly bracket when entering your text variables. Starting with RightBooth version 6.3.5 you now have the option of using the 'Remote Changes' feature. This will cause RightBooth to monitor a specific ‘changes’ folder on the computer looking for a ‘changes file’. This is a text file containing your ‘change instructions’ which will cause RightBooth to make content modifications to the currently playing event file. The changes folder can also contain new or updated image and video files, which RightBooth can be instructed to display within the playing event file. So the Remote changes feature provides you with a flexible system for updating your events with new content ‘on the fly’. And if the designated ‘changes folder’ is a shared cloud storage folder such as a Google Drive folder, it then becomes possible for you to change your playing events from a remote location. We will explain how to do this by way of the following example... You run a party room hire business and you have a number of rooms at various locations country wide that can be booked for events such as birthdays and anniversaries. At each of your locations you have RightBooth running on a permanently installed video booth, allowing party guests to record video messages and photos for the host. You like to make the RightBooth events more personalised so you always edit the event to include the name and a photo of the party host. For example, for a particular booking at one of your locations you have an event file called ‘host’. In this event file, you edit the Start screen by adding a label item that states: ‘Welcome to John’s retirement party!!’ And you also include a photo of John on the Start screen contained within an image item. The following week, the same location is booked for Jill’s 40th birthday. You now have to physically visit your location, and edit the RightBooth event file, changing the label item message and replacing John’s image item with an image of Jill. However, there is an easier way to make these changes without having to travel to your locations, by using the RightBooth Remote Changes feature. Continuing with our example, at your host location, perform the following: Set up RightBooth for remote changes
Set up your host event file for remote changes
Name the screen items that are to be changed
Performing a remote updateFrom your home location you now want to change the remote event from John to Jill. Obtain a photo of Jill (in our example: jill.png) and place this file in your local cloud storage folder. The file will then be automatically uploaded to the cloud and downloaded into the cloud storage folder on the system at your remote location. Run NotePad and type the following lines:
Event-message=Welcome to Jill’s 40th birthday party! Event-image=jill.png Now save this file into your local cloud storage folder using the reserved filename: rb6changes.txt. This file will then make its way to your remote system, again courtesy of your chosen cloud service software. On the remote system, when you run RightBooth and play the event, prior to showing the event Start screen, RightBooth will automatically open the file rb6changes.txt and will then perform the specified content substitutions for any named text, image and video items in the event. And because RightBooth periodically returns (or times out) to the Start screen during the play session, it will continue to alter the event content each time you alter the rb6changes.txt file . If you have a number of remote locations and you want to alter different event content at each location, to avoid any mix ups simply configure RightBooth at each location to monitor a different sub folder on your shared cloud storage folder. That way, each folder can have its own rb6change.txt file. Specifying an Event Folder Name You may want to alter the folder into which the remote RightBooth event will save all users photos and videos. To do this you need to add another line into the rb6change.txt file with the key phrase: event-folder-name followed by the required folder name. So continuing with our example you could add something like this: event-folder-name=jills40birthday So now all Jills photos and videos will be saved into a separate folder on your remote system and will not be mixed in with Johns files. Note: Don’t forget to use the ‘=’ character in all your content definitions within the rb6change.txt file. Today we are announcing the release of RightBooth version 6.3. This version is available as a free upgrade to all RightBooth 6 users and it contains the following new features... Control the Switching of Peripheral Equipment
The Denkovi board connects to your computer via a USB cable. You can then connect external electrical devices to the board’s relay connections and use RightBooth to switch these devices on or off at various times throughout the event. A typical example of this would be to configure RightBooth to switch on a light at the start of each video recording, then turn it off when the recording is completed. There are full details on how to do this in the latest RightBooth User Manual (and Help file) which you will find installed with the updated software. See this Blog post for an example on how to use the denkovi board. Running Remote ProgramsWe have added new event actions to allow you to run other software directly from RightBooth while it is playing an event. This can be triggered by the user when they click on any item on one of the event screens or it can be made to happen automatically whenever an event screen is displayed, courtesy of the new screen Show Action (see below). Examples of how you might use this feature:
Show ActionIt is now possible to add a 'Show action' to any RightBooth event screen. Your chosen action will then occur each time the associated screen is shown during the playing event. Using this action it becomes possible to synchronise the activities mentioned above, for example: - turning on lights when the 'Get ready' screen is shown - turning lights off when the 'Thank you' screen is shown. - running another program with the Start screen is shown. RightBooth is DPI AwareWhat does this mean?
Basically, RightBooth now detects how your Windows display is configured and will change its user interface to suit. This means that RightBooth should now be consistent on any display size and at any display scale combination that you have chosen in your Windows Display Settings. The following issue has been reported by some RightBooth users. They say that their event screen doesn't completely fill the computer display and they see a band of blue along the top and bottom of the display like this...  In the example screenshot image we are showing event screen properties toolbox. Notice that the event screen size is set to W = 1366 pixels and H = 720 pixels. If we now look at the Windows display properties for the computer on which this image was captured we find that the computer display resolution is set at 1366 x 768 pixels...  So in our example the event screen size is different to the computer display size, which means that the RightBooth event screens are not quite as high as the computer display. Therefore RightBooth is centralsing the event screens on the computer display, and causing the colour bands to be shown top and bottom. The solution to this problem is quite easy. Return to editing the RightBooth event screen and alter the screen Height property from 720 to 768. The event screen will now completely fill the computer display. You may need to make this change on all the screens in the event. The simplest way to do this (once you have made this change on one event screen) is to use the Formatter tool to apply the 'Same screen size' to all the other screens in your event as shown in this screenshot...  Why does this happen?This issue can occur for any combination of the following reasons:
Starting from RightBooth version 6.2.19, you can now allow your users to skip the Emailing feature. Emailing screens are included in your event if you have set it up to email user videos or photos.
Prior to version 6.2.19, during an event, if the 'Email Address' screen appeared, the user was forced into entering an email address and then their photos were emailed. But what if a user is presented with the Email address screen and they decide they don't want to use this feature? Well now it is possible to add a Skip button to the Email address screen which will let the user bypass the emailing screen and move on with the event flow. To do this:
Your users now have a 'get out of emailing' option ! Would you like to offer your event users the ability to print more copies of their photos if they return to your system after having used it earlier? RightBooth version 6.2.15 now includes this feature, and this article explains how to do it. 1 Design your event to save photo layouts to the event Tasks list
2 Add the 'Reprint photos' action to your event
3 Job Done. Try it... Play your event and capture some photos. Then on the Start screen, click on your newly added Reprint photos button and you will be immediately shown the 'Print photos' screen, where you can choose to print any photo layout that has been captured previously during the event... 
Wath a selection of the video recordings made on the kiosk...
There are a number of ways to stop an event from playing. Press the Escape Key By default, simply press the Esc key on the computer keyboard and this will return you to the RightBooth main window. Enter a 4 digit Password You can enable a 4 digit password that can be entered on the keyboard to stop the event playing. These features can be found in the RightBooth Security settings, accessed by clicking the Settings button on the RightBooth main window. But what If you don't have a keyboard available. Is there any way to stop the event running? Yep !!... Starting from version 6.2.10 RightBooth now includes the new event action: Stop When activated, this action will stop the event playing and return you to the RightBooth main window, To enable this feature you must add the new action to an item on one of the event screens. Here we describe how to achieve this. From the RightBooth main window, click the Edit button to take you to the Screen Editor. The following steps refer to the image below, and the red number labels on it...
 Now return to the RightBooth main window and click the Play button to play your event.
Then if you click on the newly added button, the event will immediately stop playing. Hiding the Button What if you don't want your users to know about this Stop feature?
Setting the button item to Opacity 0 causes it to become invisible, but it will still react to a click or a touch when the event is playing. You could also reduce the size of the button and perhaps place it in the top left corner of the screen to prevent anyone from accidentally touching it. Starting from version 6.2.10 RightBooth now includes the new event action: Minimize. This action allows a RightBooth event to be minimized to the Windows task bar while it is playing, which may be useful if you need to gain access to the operating system midway through an event without having to stop the event playing. To enable this feature you must add the new action to an item on one of the event screens. Here we describe how to achieve this. From the RightBooth main window, click the Edit button to take you to the Screen Editor. The following steps refer to the image below, and the red number labels on it...
 Now return to the RightBooth main window and click the Play button to play your event. Then if you click on the newly added button, the event window will be minimized to the Windows Taskbar. Hiding the Button
What if you don't want your users to know about this minimize feature?
Setting the button item to Opacity 0 causes it to become invisible, but it will still react to a click or a touch when the event is playing. You could also reduce the size of the button and perhaps place it in the top left corner of the screen to prevent anyone from accidentally touching it. RightBooth provides you with a number of design options for emailing user’s event files. This article explains how to solve a commonly asked question: How do I automatically send emails to multiple email accounts? Note: This feature requires RightBooth version 6.2.7 or later. Scenario John and Sue are using RightBooth at their wedding reception and during the event they want all the RightBooth photos to be automatically emailed to their joint email account and also emailed to each of their parents email accounts. Here’s how to do this. 1 - Set up RightBooth for Emailing Read Section 1 of this article 2 - Turn on automatic emailing for photos
Select the section Event email Un-tick ‘Send to user email address’ In the ‘To’ textbox, enter the email addresses of all the recipients, with each address on a separate line. In our example we have this:  Now, during the event, each set of photos that are captured by users will be automatically sent to the three specified email addresses without requiring the users to do anything. The key to this is turning off the option 'Send to user email address'. If un-ticked, during the event users will not be shown the 'Email address' event screen and RightBooth will simply email user photos to your specified recipient list. Give Each User the Choice to Email Their Photos You can give each user the option of emailing the photos as follows:
Now during the event, after each user's photos have been captured, the 'Photo options' screen will be shown with the options 'Email' and 'Finished'. The user can then choose to email their photos to the recipient list (notice that we've edited the Email button text to be more informative)...  And don't forget:
You can also apply this idea to user videos and messages Starting with version 6.2.3, the RightBooth application data files are now saved in the user's local application data folder (in a sub folder \RightBooth6). This has been changed in order to prevent potential problems caused by Microsoft's User Account Control restrictions (UAC) on Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 when multiple user accounts are available on the computer.
What are the RightBooth application data files? These files include the RightBooth settings, default language choice, default event prompts, any test video recordings and the RightBooth web browser settings. An example of a user's local AppData folder is as follows: C:\Users\Nigel\AppData\Local\RightBooth6 Prior to this version, the RightBooth application data files were always saved in the common application data folder: C:\ProgramData\RightBooth6. If you are upgrading from an earlier version of RightBooth, the first time you run this new version, any files in the common application data folder will be automatically copied (one time) to the currently logged on user's local AppData folder. This will not affect the operation of RightBooth. What are the Implications of This Change? 1) This now means that if there are multiple users of the same computer (i.e. multiple login accounts), each user will have their own RightBooth settings and their own application data files. 2) Any application data file access problems (caused by UAC) should no longer happen. Note: if further file access restrictions have been placed on your computer's AppData\Local folders (for example by a System Administrator) then RightBooth may not work correctly. For a while it has been possible to set RightBooth to show your events in one of a number of languages, but the application itself has always remained in English.
Example screenshots
If you would like RightBooth converting into another language please let us know. This article explains how to set up RightBooth to allow users to record karaoke videos:
https://www.rightbooth.com/createkaraoke.html But what if you simply want your users to sing along to their chosen video and not force them to make a video recording of their performance? Well now you can. (Requires RightBooth version 6.1.41 or later) We have added the new Design setting 'Play only'. Tick this option and RightBooth will play the chosen karaoke file to the user as before, but it will not record any video. So RightBooth can now behave exactly like a traditional karaoke system if that's how you want it to work !. You will find the new setting here:
Before we cover this, we'll first explain how to change the background image on any screen in your event,
How to use one of your own images?
Repeat the steps above, but instead of choosing an image from the Library, click the More images... button (at th bottom left corner of the Media Library window). You can now browse your computer to find an image that is not part of the Media Library. You should try and ensure that any image you use is not an overly large file and ideally it should be the same pixel size as your computer display ( for example 1920 x 1080 pixels ). More information can be found in this article. So you've set up your event for photo printing and it's going to be a busy night. Lots of people will be using your system, taking sets of photos and getting fantastic print outs. But how do you ensure that everything is going to run perfectly all evening? Can the system cope? Here is what you need to consider to make sure everything runs smoothly. 1 Use a fast, reliable, quality printer In some ways, this really goes without saying. If you are thinking of using a cheap, slow A4 printer please DONT! If each print out is taking longer than a minute to print then you are inevitably going to find a backlog of people queuing up waiting for their photos to print out and in extreme circumstances you may well overload the computer with print jobs, causing the system to slow down or (in the worst case) lock up and crash. There are many great printers on the market that are designed to print hundreds of top quality photos, time after time in 30 seconds or less. So read the printer specs and make sure you get yourself decent one !! 2 Reduce the Printer Workload It is possible to reduce the chance of seeing the 'people printer queue' by reducing the amount of printing that is required for each user. Try the following things to help speed up the printing process: Reduce the printer quality You might find that printing at a lower quality gives you satisfactory results. It will certainly reduce the printing time.
Increase the amount of white space on your Printer Layout Design Did you know that white areas on a printout do not require any printing? If you don't believe me try sending a blank page to your printer and see how fast it prints out !! Take a look at these two print layouts. The one with the blue shaded background will take much longer to print than the one with the white background. It will also use up a lot more ink...
So think about making use of the colour white within your RightBooth print layouts 3 Create Smaller Prints Again I guess this goes without saying but usually the smaller you make your print layout, the faster it will print out. And printing to smaller sized paper will also reduce time. So rather than printing on A4 paper, find a printer that can take smaller paper sizes such 6" x 4". 4 Prevent Printer Jobs Building Up on the Computer Maybe you just have no choice but to use your trusty old slow printer! So in this situation you can't prevent the 'people printer queue' but you can prevent the chance of overloading your computer with a build up of print jobs. Here's how...
 Now the Printing screen will be shown during the event for as long as it takes to create each print out, and this will effectively stop others using the system during any printing. This solution will stop the build up of printer jobs, but it will also slow down the throughput of your users. So use this idea carefully. You may find that you can set this Display time to say 30 seconds, ie. half the printing time. In this situation you probably need to find a balance between people throughput and print job throughput. 5 Use Multiple Printers
OK. You've tried all the suggestions above but you just want more people using your system and getting their printouts quicker !! Well if money is no object, why not make use of more than one printer? Yes, RightBooth allows you to attach and use up to 4 printers at the same time. Read this article for more information. 6 Final Option - Printing After the Event Has Finished Rather than printing during the event you can save all the user's print layouts as files that can then be printed at a later time or date. To do this:
Now, at any time you can click the Tasks button on the RightBooth Main window to visit the Task panel. Here, click on the Print photos tab to see a full list of all the print layouts that have been created by your event users. Then you can select one or more for printing. Happy printing ! You may have already seen the overlay images that are provided with RightBooth. If you have installed the RightBooth Media Library then you will find them in this folder on your computer: C:\Users\Public\Documents\RightBooth6 Library\Images\Overlays All the images in the Overlays folder contain various transparent areas that allow your recorded videos and photos to show through, for example:  You can add your own images into the Overlays folder and then use them in RightBooth. This article explains how. 1 - Get Yourself An Image Editing Program This article demonstrates how to create overlay images using GIMP, a free image editing package. If you are unfamiliar with GIMP or image editing, please first read this article 2 – Find An Image There are plenty of places on the Web to find images, including sites like Pixabay.com which are all completely free to use. For this tutorial we are using this image (which you’ve probably already seen included in the Overlays folder:  Image source: https://pixabay.com/en/valentine-greeting-card-frame-588264/ This image is ideally suited to be edited and altered into an overlay image, allowing the RightBooth event user’s head(s) to appear in the heart shaped photo frame. Download the image and save it onto your computer. Notice that it is a JPG image. 3 – Edit The Image JPG images do not contain any transparent areas so we need to edit the image in GIMP to make the white heart area transparent.
4 Save the Image We need to save the image as a PNG file because PNG images can retain the transparent areas.
 Job done.
You now have a new overlay image for use in RightBooth. Now it’s your turn to find some suitable images that you can modify and use as overlays. And don’t forget to seek permission from the image owner if they are not free to use.
RightBooth can integrate seamlessly with your favourite cloud storage account to allow videos, photos, messages and print layouts to be copied to your cloud storage account while the event is taking place. Here's how: 1 Get yourself a cloud storage account There are numerous providers of cloud storage, including Dropbox, Google Drive and Box. For a great explanation on some of the best providers, read this: https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/free-online-storage Most cloud storage providers work in the same way when it comes to uploading files from your PC or laptop. They allow you to designate a local folder on your computer which will then be synchronised with your cloud storage account. This basically means that whenever a new file is added into your local folder, it will be automatically uploaded to your cloud folder. Once you have chosen your account provider, install their software and set up your local syncronisation folder. Full details on how to do this are available from your chosen cloud storage provider. 2 Connect RightBooth to your Local Cloud Storage Folder
Here you can see we have chosen to connect with a OneDrive folder...  3 Choose the type of files to copy to the cloud Staying in the RightBooth Folders settings, use the check boxes to decide which type of event files will be uploaded to the cloud. In this example we have chosen to upload Photos and Photo thumbnails:  Now make sure your computer is connected to the Internet and play the event.
And each time a user capture photos, the resulting photo print layout will be:
File uploads will happen 'behind the scenes' while RightBooth plays the event, and if you make your cloud folder accessible to your users they will be able to immediately view and access all the files on their own devices as they are created during the event. |
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