Latest video demonstrating the new photo post-processing features introduced in RightBooth version 7.7.10.

The latest version of RightBooth is now released and contains the following improvements:
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• The app has been fully tested on Windows 11 and has been found to run without problems.
• Improvements have been made to allow for running RightBooth on newer Microsoft Surface graphics tablets.
• Added the 'MS touch keyboard' option in Settings --> User input, to allow you to optionally use the Microsoft touch keyboard in your events, rather than the RightBooth on-screen keyboard, when Windows is running in tablet mode.
• Added the Direct and Indirect webcam integration options to improve webcam compatibility on a wider range of  laptops and graphics tablets.  This setting can be found in Settings --> Cameras --> Webcam video.  Then click the button: Webcam integration and video recording tester
• Added new photo post-processing settings for Brightness, Contrast, Sharpen and Gamma.  These can be found in Settings --> Miscellaneous.  If selected, these settings will be automatically applied to all event photos taken with any camera that is being used. 
• Added new DSLR settings: Av and Tv.  These can be found in Settings --> Cameras --> DSLR.
• Improvements have been made when running RightBooth when Windows large font scaling is in use.  Improvements in the following areas:
  • User interface
  • Event screen layout created by the Event Wizard
  • Screen editor scroll bars now appear correctly
• If any sequence items (video, image or text) are showing files from a folder, they now watch the folder, looking for file changes and they will update their contents accordingly.
• Modifications have been made to the GoPro control interface to improve the Wifi connection reliability.
• Screen editor zooming and screen positioning has been improved
• Fix: Allow the Video Enhancement chromakey and segment settings to work on Windows OS languages where the ',' (comma) character is used to represent the decimal point.

Latest training video explaining how to make use of RightBooth screen animations in order to add animated transitions between your event screens:

Here is a flowchart showing the general process that RightBooth takes when recording videos using different camera types.  Note that the hour glass indicates where RightBooth will display the Busy event screen for the time taken to perform the associated task.

When you install RightBooth it also installs a Media Library.  Part of this includes the Print layout library which (starting with RightBooth version 7.7) contains a number of pre-designed layouts that you can use in your photo capture events.

There are two ways to choose a layout from the Print Layout Library:

1 Choose a Print Layout in the Event Wizard
You can create a new photo capture event by clicking the 'Create' button on the main RightBooth window and choosing 'Create a photo capture event'

You can then work your way through the Event Wizard and at the Printing stage you can choose to  include printing in your event and then browse the Print layout library for your preferred layout.

In this screenshot I have chosen to include printing by selecting 'Ask the user', then I clicked the 'Choose a photo print layout' button and I am browsing for a pre-made layout from within the library:

2 - Choose a Print Layout in the Screen Editor
If you have designed your photo capture event to include photo printing then you can access the event's current Print layout in the Screen Editor.

• From the RightBooth main screen, click 'Edit'
• In the Screen Editor choose 'Print layout' on the screen list to see the current layout being used in the event.
• On the Screen Editor Toolbox, click the 'Open' button to view, browse and select another Print layout to use in your event. In this screenshot I am choosing to replace the current print layout with one from the Birthday folder in the Layout library:

Version 7.7. of RightBooth is now released

It contains a lot of new features, improvements and bug fixes.

The main new feature is the ability to create Sharing Station events.
​Full details can be found here  

This training video shows you how:

Update: 26th May 2022
This article describes the use of the iriun webcam app, but since writing it,  DroidCam has been brought to my attention and in many ways it is more reliable and better performing than iriun. 
So when reading this article, also consider using DroidCam:  https://www.dev47apps.com/

Want to use an iPhone's camera as a wireless webcam input into RightBooth?
This article explains how.
Also note that this solution works with an iPad's camera, or any Android phone or Android tablet's camera.

Note: This is a great solution for wirelessly capturing photos and recording 'talking head' videos. It may not be ideal for fast motion video recording, such as that obtained from a 360 spinner booth.  See Suggestions to improve performance (below).
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Note 2: If you are looking to record 360 (or fast motion) videos wirelessly in RightBooth, we recommend using a GoPro camera, because the videos are recorded on the camera prior to them being transferred over WiFi to RightBooth for video processing.

Setting Up

​Step 1

• ​Make sure your RightBooth computer and your mobile phone (or tablet) are both connected to the same WiFi network.  Note: you could use your own dedicated router to create your own private WiFi network. Alternatively, you can use any public WiFi network.

Step 2

• Visit https://www.iriun.com  and install the Webcam for Windows app on your RightBooth computer.

Step 3

• Download and install the Iriun Webcam app onto your mobile phone (or tablet).

This is available in both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.

Step 4

• Run the Webcam for Windows app on your computer
• Run the Iriun Webcam app on your mobile phone (or tablet).

The two apps will then connect automatically over your chosen WiFi network and you will see the live feed from the camera in the Webcam for Windows app. In this example I am using the camera on a Samsung Galaxy S6 mobile phone to feed into the Webcam for WIndows app:

Working in Portrait Mode
If you prefer to work in Portrait mode, there is an option to switch to Portrait in the  Iriun Webcam app Settings on your mobile phone. 
​You will then need to tick the 'Rotate 90' check box in RightBooth Webcam video settings.

Job done!
You can now capture high quality videos and photos in your RightBooth events, directly from your mobile phone (or tablet).
And because the camera input is treated as a webcam by RightBooth you can also make full use of all RightBooth's webcam features, including Snap Camera overlays, digital props, ink drawing, face detection, video enhancements and video augmentation.

Suggestions to Improve Performance
A number of users have reported that the video recording is not fluent when using iriun and that it can skip frames, especially when recording fast movement, such as that obtained on 360 spinner equipment.

If you are finding this happening, try the following:

• On both your computer and your phone, stop all other apps running that could be making use of the WiFi network.
• Reduce the chosen Video format size on the Webcam for Windows app.  Smaller size equals less processing time and less WiFi bandwidth requirements.
• Match the Video and Photo size in RightBooth to the one chosen in the Webcam for Windows app.
• Avoid using sizes higher than 1920x1080 for video recording.
• Try using a dedicated private WiFi network using your own router, with only your computer and phone connected, and position it in close proximity to your kit.
• Turn off the phone's mobile network.  The easiest way to do this is to remove the SIM card.
• Turn off the phone's Bluetooth and NFC.
• Contact the iriun developers to see if there is a newer version available or if they can  offer further advice.

RightBooth version 7.6.36 (or later) provides the new 'Access code' feature.  Here is a video tutorial showing how to make use of access codes in your events:

In addition to standard text, QR codes have evolved to encode text that has special meanings to QR code scanner apps. When a QR code scanner detects a special encoding it can then instruct your device (e.g. mobile phone) to perform an associated action or run an associated app.  Examples of special QR codes include Skype codes, email codes, URLs and WhatsApp messages.

In this article we are going to consider WiFi QR codes and how to add them onto your RightBooth event screens. Then, when scanned, the code will allow your event users to connect to a WiFi network of your choice without them having to manually select the network or enter the required WiFi password. 

Step 1 - Create a WiFi QR Code Image
RightBooth has a feature that lets you show QR codes on your event screens but it currently doesn't provide the ability to generate WiFi QR codes.  However, there are a number of apps online that can generate WiFi QR code images for you free of charge.  The one I am using for this article is the JS WiFi Code Generator which can be found here:  https://qifi.org/

At this website, simply enter the SSID, Encryption method and Key (password) for your WiFi router.  In this example, I am creating a WiFi QR code for my TP-Link N600 router which uses the WPA2 encryption method:

When you have entered your WiFi details, click the 'Generate' button, then click 'Export' to download the generated QR image to your PC...

By default your browser will download your QR code image into your Downloads folder, so make sure you move it to somewhere more permanent such as your Pictures folder.

Step 2 - Add the QR Code Image onto your RightBooth Event screen

• Run RightBooth and go to the Screen Editor.
• Choose the screen where you would like your QR code image to appear.
• On the Screen Editor Toolbox, click the  'Add items' checkbox
• On the Add Items toolbox, click 'Image'
• On the Image Library panel, click 'More images'
• Browse to the folder containing your downloaded QR code image
• Select the image and click 'Open' to add the QR code onto your event screen

In this screenshot I am adding the TP-Link QR code image from my Pictures folder onto the 'Show photo' screen:

Step 3 - Add a white border to the QR code image
This is required to help improve the ability for QR code scanner apps to detect the QR code.

• On the event screen, click the QR code image to select it.
• On the Editor Toolbox, click the 'Properties checkbox
• On the Image properties toolbox, tick the Border checkbox, then set the border width to 16 pixels and change the Border color to White.

Notice in this screenshot I have also added a label item prompting the user to scan the code to join the WiFi network:

Job done!
Now when the QR code appears on your event screen, users can scan the code using the QR code scanner on their WiFi enabled device (e.g. mobile phone) to join your WiFi network.

So you want your RightBooth users to enter one or more coins into a coin acceptor before they are allowed to use your event. 

What you need to do is to find a coin acceptor solution that can generate and send a chosen keystroke into the Windows keyboard input subsystem, usually via USB keyboard emulation.  With this solution, the keystroke will be sent each time a predefined coin (or combination of coins) are inserted into the coin acceptor.

There are many coin and bill acceptors available, but most of them require additional hardware to allow you to connect them to the PC and generate keystrokes.  However, there are ready made solutions available where others have done the heavy hardware lifting for you, such as this product:

Or if you are feeling more adventurous, you could experiment with solutions like this:

www.casino-software.de/cash-interface2_e.htm#keystroke

or this:

jukeblaster.com/coinkit.html

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So once you have your coin acceptor working and connected to the PC, here is the change you need to make in RightBooth:

• From the RightBooth main screen, click the Design button.
• On the Event Designer, choose the Event structure tab.
• On the Start section, tick Move on from the Start screen after keyboard key press
• Enter the key that your coin acceptor is generating.  In this example we have chosen key 'A':

Now when you play the event, RightBooth will wait at the Start screen until a coin is inserted into the coin acceptor, at which point it will progress to the next screen in your event, allowing the user to access your event features.  And at the end of each user session, RightBooth will return to showing the Start screen, waiting for the next user to enter a coin into the coin acceptor.

IMPORTANT.  You will need to be using RightBooth version 7.6.28 (or newer) in order to implement the solution described in this article.

I had an interesting email chat with one of my RightBooth users about the consistency of the Voice Recognition feature.  He was simply wanting his event users to say the word 'cheese' in order to trigger the taking of a photo.

So he created a photo capture event and on his event Start screen he added the word 'cheese' as a label item having the action 'Next screen', and then he turned on the Voice Recognition feature.

But when playing the event he was finding that the spoken word 'cheese' was not always being recognised as such, and this led to our email chat.

On testing this myself, I discovered that when speaking the word 'cheese', the recognition engine was occasionally (and incorrectly) recognising my spoken word as one of the following similar sounding words:

• trees
• he's
• she's
• jeez

Now this recognition inconsistency is actually inherent in the Microsoft Voice Recognition system and it makes RightBooth appear to ignore quite a few spoken words.

So here is my suggestion to improve the reliability:

• On the Event Start screen, add a label item and enter the word 'cheese' AND all the similar sounding words that the engine incorrectly recognises. 
• Note that you must add each word on a separate line in the label item (see image below). 
  
• Set the label item's click action as 'Next screen'.
• Finally, move the label item off the edge of the screen so that it isn't visible to the user when the event plays, like this...

RightBooth version 7.6.27 has been released and contains the following new features and fixes:

1) Add the 'Record audio' checkbox in RightBooth Settings --> Cameras --> Webcam audio.  This allows you to record webcam videos that do not contain an audio track.

2) Allow .wav files to be used as the audio track in the RightBooth Video Enhancements.

3) Add the QR code item to the 'Add items' toolbox in the Screen Editor.  This allows QR codes to be added to event screens with a fixed aspect ratio and a correctly sized white border that improves the ability for QR code scanner apps to identify the QR code.

4) Add the 'Choose when to perform file copy actions' options in Event Designer --> Event files/folders.   These new options allow you to choose at what point in the playing event flow that various file copy actions will occur.  You can choose from the following:

• After creating – Files will be copied or uploaded immediately after the file has been created.
• ‘Show’ screen – Files will be copied or uploaded when the ‘Show’ screen appears. If this choice is selected but you do not include the 'Show' screen in your event, file copy actions will not be performed.
• ‘Options’ screen – Files will be copied or uploaded when the ‘Options’ screen appears.  If this choice is selected but you do not include the 'Options' screen in your event, file copy actions will not be performed.
• After completion – Files will be copied or uploaded when the current user has finished with their current recording session. This normally happens when the event flow proceeds beyond the Options screen in the Screen Editor Screen list. 

Fixes:

• Prevent any Video Enhancement outro video from being clipped when the video recording length is less than the outro video length.
• Allow the Event Wizard to complete when choosing the GoPro camera in the final step of the Wizard.

So you have a DJ at your event and you want to allow your guests to send song requests to the DJ throughout the evening.  This article explains how you can facilitate this using RightBooth.

1) Use the RightBooth Event Wizard to create a message event. Or in the Event Designer --> Event type, tick the Message check box to include the Message option in your video recording or photo capture event. In this screenshot we have chosen to include messages in our Photo event:

2) In Event Designer --> Event structure --> Email files, in the section 'Email the event messages' choose the 'Yes' option.   This will force each message entered during the event to be automatically emailed to the DJ:

3) In Event designer --> Event social media, untick the option 'Send to user email address'. (see screenshot below). This prevents each user from being asked to enter their own email address after they have entered their message.
4) Enter your DJ's email address into the 'To' text box. This will cause RightBooth to automatically send each message to the DJ's email address.   You can also customise the email Subject and Body text accordingly:

Note: If you want to send the messages to more than just the DJ, enter each of the other recipient's email addresses on new lines in the 'To' field.

5) In RightBooth Settings --> Social media --> Email server, enter your email Server Host and your account details.  This is the email account from which RightBooth will  use to send emails to the DJ's email address:

Note: Please refer to your email provider's documentation for the details of your email account.

6) In the Screen Editor, on the Choose recording screen, alter the Message  button text item with appropriate wording:

7) In the Screen Editor on the Type message screen, alter the text prompts with appropriate wording:

Job done !
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Now play the event and each time a user enters their song request, it will be automatically emailed to the DJ for his consideration.

Latest training video:

A guide on how to use a single USB button for controlling your RightBooth events.

1 - Buy a USB button.  We recommend using this button:  www.usbbutton.com
2 - Plug the USB button into a free USB port on your PC. Wait until Windows configures the button for use.
3 - Download and install the USB Button Configuration utility, available from the website link mentioned in 1).
4 - Run the USB Button Utility
5 - Use the File --> Open menu to open the following file:
c:\Program Files (x86)\RightBooth\rightbooth.ubn

6 - Press the 'Program Button' button to configure the USB button so that it will send the Spacebar keyboard character to Windows.  Note that this is a one time requirement...

7 - Run RightBooth. Go to Settings --> User Input
8 -  Select the option 'USB button' and make sure the Single keyboard key is set to 'Space'...

9 - Open your event and go into the Screen Editor.
10 - Look at each screen that has a choice selection and ensure that the selection arrows correctly point at the text choices.  If they don't, edit the label items accordingly.

​In this example screenshot the selected label item has been widened so that it straddles the accompanying button and its text contents have been right justified so that the selection arrows are positioned to the left of the button and to the right of the label item:

11 - Play the event.  The arrows will move automatically between the text choices.  When the arrows are pointing at your required choice, you can press the USB Button to select the choice.
12 - If the arrows move too quickly between the choices,  return to Settings --> User Input and increase the Choice selector arrow speed

IMPORTANT: If you need to edit the selection arrows, you must always select the 'left most' arrow.  Any changes you make will be applied to both arrows.

RightBooth now provides the new event type: 'Watch folder'.  This allows the event to watch a folder when it plays and then to process videos and photos that appear in the folder.  The event flow is as follows:

• when the event plays, it shows the Start screen and then monitors the chosen watch folder.
• each time a video or a photo file appears in the Watch folder, RightBooth automatically progresses onto the screens that you've included in the event such as green screen, overlays, logos, video enhancements, Show video, Show photo etc as defined within your event design.
• you can also design your event to show the Options screen for emailing, send to phone, printing etc, or simply set these processes to happen automatically.
• Then RB returns to the Start screen and waits for the next video or photo file to appear in the Watch folder.

In 'Watch folder' mode, the event will not allow any video recording or photo capture to take place within the event itself, it is purely watching for files to appear.

Here's how easy it is to set up:

• Go to the Event Designer
• In the Event type section, select the option Watch folder
• Use the Folder browse button to choose a folder on your computer (or network) that RightBooth will watch...

Notice in the above screenshot that we have chosen to watch a Dropbox folder. You  just need a free DropBox account and install the DropBox client app on the computer.   Then choose the Dropbox folder as the Watch folder.

This allows you to implement a very interesting workflow.  If you make your Dropbox folder available on other devices, such as mobile phones and tablets (via the Dropbox mobile app),  then you (and possibly others) can roam around, away from the computer, taking photos and/or recording videos with your mobile device,  while allowing the DropBox app to automatically copy them to the RightBooth Watch folder back on the computer.  And each time these files appear in the folder,  RightBooth will process them for you, for example, automatically resizing and cropping photos, adding an overlay logo and then maybe printing them, and/or perhaps emailing them to a predefined email address.

RightBooth version 7.6.9 is released today, including the new Video enhancements features.  Full details

RightBooth 7.6.5 is now released.  See the Release Notes for a full list of the updates. 

This release contains the new Send to Phone feature which is explained in these training videos:

RightBooth version 7.6.1 has a new 'Print layouts' item in the Screen Editor that can be added to any of your event screens and can contain any number of your pre-designed photo print layouts.
Then when the event is playing, your event user may choose one of the layouts for RightBooth to use when printing their photos...

It is possible to allow your users to change the order of the photos on the print layout prior to the layout being printed.  Note you will require RightBooth version 7.5.31 or later for this feature.  To do this:

• Make sure your event is set up for taking photos and for photo printing. In our example we are taking 3 photos
• Go to the Screen Editor
• Select the Photo options screen
• Add a new button to the screen
• Select the button and look at its properties
• In the Action section of the Properties Toolbox, select the Click action: Reorder photos as shown in this screenshot:

Now when you play the event and after taking 3 photos, they will initially appear in the print layout in the order that they were taken:

Now if the user clicks the Reorder photos button, the photo order will be changed as follows:

The user can continue to click the Reorder photos button until the photos are in the preferred order, prior to printing.