Options for emailing photos to users are to be found in the 'Email files' section within the 'Event structure' tab, which is available in the Event Designer.
The options available for emailing photos are:

Photos will not be emailed to users.

After photos are taken, users will be shown the 'Email address' screen to force them to immediately email their photos.  They must enter a valid email address to continue, unless you add a Skip button to the 'Email address' screen.

After photos are taken, users will be shown the 'Photo options' screen to allow them to choose to email their photos.  If they choose to email their photos, they will then be shown the 'Email address' screen.  You can enter a number into the text box.  This is the number of times each user will be shown the 'Email button' on the Photo options screen, in other words it defines the number of times they can email their photos.

After photos are taken, users will be shown the 'Email address' screen to force them to immediately email their photos.  They must enter a valid email address to continue, unless you add a Skip button to the 'Email address' screen.
​After they have completed the Email address screen, users will then be shown the 'Photo options' screen to allow them to choose to email their photos again.

After photos are taken, users will be shown the 'Email address' screen to force them to enter a valid email address to continue, unless you add a Skip button to the 'Email address' screen.  When they have entered a valid email address,  RightBooth will save the email in the current event folder.   You can then send the emails later (e.g. after the event has finished) using the Email feature available in the RightBooth Tasks section.

6 - Automatic emailing
If you want to automatically email photos to one or more known email addresses, simply add the email addresses into the 'To' text box in the 'Event email' section of the 'Event Designer'.  In this example, RightBooth will automatically email all photos to personA@gmail.com and personB@hotmail.com:

IMPORTANT: Note the 'Send to user email address' checkbox in the above screenshot.  When this option is ticked (the default), event users will be able to perform emailing (as described in the options 1 to 5 above).  But if you untick this option,  then only personA and personB will receive emails, and event users will not be shown any emailing options.

Handling Emailing Problems
If RightBooth cannot send emails for whatever reason (e.g. no Internet connection), it will inform the user and then save the email files in the current event folder to allow you to email them at a later time within the RightBooth Tasks section.

Stamp Property

An item whose Stamp property is ticked (we will refer to this as a Stamp item) will be automatically added (overlaid) onto a captured photo if:
a) the Stamp item is positioned over a Camera item on any event screen prior to the photo being taken, or
b) the Stamp item is positioned over the photo after it has been taken and is being displayed to the user on any event screen.

In the Screen Designer, if Stamp items are placed and positioned over any Camera item on any Event screen that appears before the ‘Take photo’ screen, then these Stamp items will be automatically added to every photo that is captured during the event.  This applies to webcam and DSLR camera items.

In the Screen Designer, if Stamp items are positioned over any ‘photo placeholder’ item on any event screen that appears after the ‘Take photo’ screen, these Stamp items will be automatically added to every photo captured during the event.

Can Move Property
Alternatively in the Screen Designer, Stamp items which also have their ‘Can move’ property ticked can be initially placed and positioned away from the Camera item or ‘photo placeholder’ item.  Then when the event is playing, users can optionally drag 'Can move' Stamp items over the Camera item (or the photo placeholder) item in order to decorate their photos.

All Stamp items that are placed over photos will be added to the photo image file and will also be included in any printing of the photo.

Other Uses of Stamp Items

• This feature may also be used in combination with the Drawing Tools to allow users to ‘ink sign’ their photos and/or ‘item stamp’ their photos during the event.  Additionally, the Drawing Pad item can also accept Stamp items that are positioned over it during the event.  And these items will then be included in the drawing pad image together with any drawing ink strokes made by users.

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• This feature may also be used in combination with the Print Layout item that is shown on the Photo Options event screen when printing is included in your event design.  Users can then add Stamp items directly onto the Print Layout in order to decorate the Print Layout prior to printing their photos.​​

IMPORTANT:  If you plan to add Stamp items onto a photo, camera item, drawing pad or print layout item, the item that is accepting the Stamp items MUST be un-rotated  on the event screen in the Screen Designer, in other words it must have an Angle of 0 degrees otherwise the Stamp items will not be added in the correct position.

Moving, Sizing and Rotating Stamp Items
When the user selects a stamp item (either with the mouse or touching it on a touchscreen), two pick-up boxes will be displayed, one for stamp rotation and one for stamp sizing.  This video shows how it is possible to move, size and rotate Stamp items into place on a captured photo:

Updated January 2023

There are two of ways to achieve portrait video and photo capture with RightBooth.

Option 1 - Rotate the camera 90 degrees
This is explained in the following tutorial:

The above tutorial discusses using a webcam, but the same principle also applies when using DSLR and GoPro cameras.

Option 1 for DSLR and GoPro Cameras
Physically rotate and fix your DSLR/GoPro camera at 90 degrees, then in RightBooth Camera DSLR settings (or GoPro Settings) you need to rotate the camera feed 90 degrees by ticking the Rotate 90 checkbox (see image below).

• For video recording, make sure the video recording W and H values are set to the video landscape values of the camera.  So if your camera is recording 1920x1080 videos, set W=1920 and H=1080.  RightBooth will then automatically rotate the captured video recording by 90 degrees to 1080x1920 after the video is transferred from the camera to the PC.
• For photo capture, make sure the 'Reduce photo size' W and H values are set to the photo landscape aspect ratio size of the camera.  Again, RightBooth will rotate the captured photo by 90 degrees after the photo is transferred from the camera to the PC.

IMPORTANT: Prevent Automatic Camera Orientation
Some cameras, such as newer GoPro models and DSLR models. have the option enabled to automatically alter the orientation of the camera.  This means that if you hold the camera horizontally it will automatically record landscape videos/photos and if you rotate the camera 90 degrees it will automatically record portrait videos/photos.

If your camera has this feature, you must disable it to avoid possible problems in RightBooth.

For GoPro cameras:  on your GoPro camera menu,  choose: Preferences --> Touchscreen --> Orientation

Then set the Orientation to 'Landscape'.  This will cause all videos and photos to be captured in landscape mode regardless of how the camera is physically rotated.

DSLR camera - Canon M50 Mark II
On the camera menu, choose 'Function settings' and set the 'Add rotate info' option to 'Disable:

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Option 2 - Fix the camera horizontally and crop the input
Using this solution RightBooth will crop the landscape camera feed (webcam, DSLR or GoPro), discarding the left and right sections of the input to leave a central portion that is any aspect ratio you require, such as square or portrait.  With this solution you un-tick the 'Rotate 90' checkbox. Obviously this solution is not as good as the first solution (above) because you are discarding useful sections of the camera input and you are therefore effectively reducing the resolution in your captured files.

In this example I have chosen to crop both DSLR video and photo inputs. I have cropped the video to 604x1080, which is an aspect ratio that is close to a rotated HD input.  With photos I have cropped to 700x1000 which is providing a slightly wider Portrait input, as seen in the live view:

It is worth mentioning here that there are no hard and fast rules on cropping. Simply choose values that produce video and photos aspect ratios that work for you.


Applying Video Enhancements to Portrait videos
If you are applying RightBooth Video Enhancement features to your portrait video recordings, make sure that any enhancement files you use also have a portrait aspect ratio, otherwise RightBooth will stretch and possibly distort the assets to fit the portrait video recording size.

For example, if you are recording portrait HD videos and you want to add a video overlay to your recorded videos, make sure you use a video file that is sized W=1080 H=1920, or W=720 H=1280, or some other aspect ratio that matches your HD portrait video recording size.  The same rule applies when using an image overlay.

RightBooth version 7.0.10 now includes the new actions: 'Next desktop' and 'Previous Desktop' to allow your event users to switch to other Windows virtual desktops that may contain applications you would like them to view or interact with as part of your event design.

Details are available in the latest RightBooth User Manual and there is also a training video available.

Updated: January 2023  Please note that Snap Camera was discontinued and suspended on January 25th 2023.  However, the product is currently still available for use.  This article explains all.

Snap Camera is an app from Snap Inc that allows you to apply lens effects onto live webcams, as found in the popular SnapChat app.  These effects can then be made to appear when playing your RightBooth event, allowing your users to select them and apply them to their RightBooth photo captures and video recordings.

Configure Snap Camera Settings
Run Snap Camera.  In Snap Camera settings:

• Choose your webcam
• Set the ‘Turn Lens On/Off Hotkey’ to ‘Num + 0’

​Choose your Snap Camera lenses
Now browse the Snap Camera lenses and choose your favourites by clicking the Yellow start icon next to the lens.  Then in the Favourites panel set each of your chosen lens Hotkeys to Num + 1, Num + 2, Num + 3, etc.   These are the number keys on the numeric keypad on your keyboard.
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Note that RightBooth can control up to 9 Snap Camera lenses (i.e maximum hotkey Num + 9).  Here we have chosen 3 lenses and have defined their hotkeys accordingly:

Keep Snap Camera running and we’ll now turn our attention to getting RightBooth working with Snap Camera.
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RightBooth Settings for Snap Camera

• In RightBooth Video Settings, choose the webcam:  Snap Camera
• In RightBooth ‘Overlays and Props’ Settings, set the Snap Camera: Total lenses value to the number of favourite lenses you have defined in the Snap Camera app.  Note, in our example we set this value to 3.

Adding Snap Camera Interaction to RightBooth
Open the RightBooth event in which you would like to use Snap Camera lenses.

• In Event Design --> Event Structure --> Start, tick the option: Reset Snap Camera. 

By doing this you will cause Snap Camera lenses to be removed from the webcam each time the event shows the Start screen.  This is useful to allow you to clear the previous user’s Snap Camera activity.

Now you can add various Snap Camera actions to any event screen item (such as buttons or images) in order to allow users to show/hide and select any of your defined set of favourite lenses. 

Available Snap Camera Actions

• Snap Camera On – This action will turn the current Snap Camera lens on so that it is shown in the RightBooth webcam item.
• Snap Camera Off – This action will turn the current Snap Camera lens off so that no Snap Camera lenses are showing in the RightBooth webcam item.
• Snap Camera On/Off – This action will toggle the current Snap Camera lens on and off from the RightBooth webcam item.
• Snap Camera +1 – This action will show your next favourite lens effect (from the set of lenses you have defined in Snap Camera) within the RightBooth webcam item.
• Snap Camera -1 – This action will show your previous favourite lens effect (from the set of lenses you have defined in Snap Camera) within the RightBooth webcam item. 

Note that you can choose to add Snap Camera lens actions on any screen in the event and this gives you a lot of design flexibility.
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Examples of some of the things you can do:

• Allow users to select a Snap Camera lens before each RightBooth photo is captured.
• Allow users to select a Snap Camera lens before each RightBooth video is recorded.
• Allow users to change Snap Camera lenses while a RightBooth video is being recorded.

 
IMPORTANT RULES TO REMEMBER:

1. Always start the Snap Camera app before you start the RightBooth app.
2. Ensure that Snap Camera is not showing any lenses prior to playing your event.
3. Do not use the Snap Camera app or the keyboard hotkeys to select lenses while your event is playing.

There is a new RightBooth Facebook Group : Everything RightBooth

Feel free to join and take part in discussions regarding all things RightBooth !

And keep watching as we produce training videos over the coming weeks that show how to get the best out of RightBooth 7

RightBooth Version 7 was released on March 1st.

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