Hardware settings

In the hardware settings, you will find settings related to live view, photo capture and printing. Everything related to the hardware the program interfaces with.

General

Rotate Image

This setting determines whether the preview and capture images should be rotated. Rotation direction is clockwise, but is applied before the flip image`* setting.

Available Options:

  • No rotation
  • 90 degrees
  • 180 degrees
  • 270 degrees

Default: No rotation

Flip Image – Live View

This setting determines whether the preview image (not the final picture) should be flipped along none, one, or both axes within the photo booth application.

Available Options:

  • None
  • Horizontal
  • Vertical
  • Both

Default: Horizontal

Flip Image – Capture

This setting determines whether the captured images (not the final picture) should be flipped along none, one, or both axes within the photo booth application.

Available Options:

  • None
  • Horizontal
  • Vertical
  • Both

Default: Horizontal

Live View

Live View Method

This setting determines the method used for live previewing within the photo booth application.

Available Options:

  • Debug – Static noise
  • Webcam
  • gPhoto2

Selected Option: [Option]

Please note that the selected option is based on the current configuration and can be changed by the user.

Webcam

This setting allows you to pick the webcam to use for live view when Webcam is selected for live view. It can also be used for capture by selecting Live view as capture method.

Photo Capture

Capture Method

This setting determines the method used for capturing the images within the photo booth application.

Available Options:

  • Live view source
  • Sony Imaging Edge Desktop automation
  • gPhoto2

Capture Delay for Sony Camera

This setting specifies the capture delay for Sony cameras when using Sony Imaging Edge Desktop automation as the capture method. Please note that this setting is only visible when the Sony Imaging Edge Desktop automation is selected as the capture method.

Unit: Milliseconds (ms)

Description:
The capture delay is the time delay applied before the photo capture takes place. Sensible values for the capture delay are between 165 ms (for manual focus) and 500 ms.

Capture Delay for gPhoto2 Camera

This setting specifies the capture delay for cameras controlled using gPhoto2 as the capture method. Please note that this setting is only visible when the gPhoto2 is selected as the capture method.

Unit: Milliseconds (ms)

Description:
The capture delay is the time delay applied before the photo capture takes place.

Camera (gPhoto2)

This setting allows you to pick the camera to use for capturing within the photo booth application when gPhoto2 is selected for live view or capture method.

Description:
The "gPhoto2 Camera" setting provides a list of available cameras recognized by the gPhoto2 library. You can select the desired camera to use for capturing live view and still frames.

Use Special Handling for Camera

This setting determines the kind of special handling used for the camera when using gPhoto2 as the capture or live view method. This mostly relates to special vendor-specific operations, such as re-activating live-view for Nikon cameras.

Available Options:

  • None
  • Nikon DSLR

Capture Location

This setting specifies the location where the photo booth application will look for images captured by an external tool, such as Sony Imaging Edge Desktop.

Note that this is not the same as the location where the output files produced by MomentoBooth are stored. This is in the Output subdirectory of the project folder.

Description:
The "Capture Location" is the folder path where the photo booth application will search for images captured using external tools. This allows the photo booth to access and display images taken separately, for instance, with Sony Imaging Edge Desktop.

Printing

Page Margins Used for Printing

This setting allows you to specify the page margins used for printing. This setting is used both for the native and CUPS printing methods.

Description:
The "Page Margins Used for Printing" setting compensates for printers that may cut off some part of the image during printing. You can adjust the margins to ensure that the entire image is captured on the printed page.

Unit: Millimeters (mm)

Order of Margins: Top, Right, Bottom, Left – CSS order

Queue Warning Threshold

This setting specifies the number of photos in the OS's printer queue before a "Printer queue is long" warning is shown to the user to indicate it may take a while for the picture to appear. This feature is currently only supported on Windows systems.

Native printing

Printer

Like explained in the MomentoBooth capabilities, the application has multi-printer support. The Printer i setting with i 1, 2, ... allows selecting which printer(s) to use. Every selected printer will create another printer setting in the UI.

The options for a printer selection (in the form of a combo-box) are the printers currently configured on the OS. Icons show if the selected printer is currently connected and whether it is the system's default printer or not.

It is possible to select the same printer multiple times. Prints are assigned round-robin.

Page Height

This setting specifies the page format height used for printing within the photo booth application.

Unit: Millimeters (mm)

Description:
The "Page Height" setting represents the height of the page format used for printing photos. Set it to your printers page height for the paper type you wish to use.

Page Width

This setting specifies the page format width used for printing within the photo booth application.

Unit: Millimeters (mm)

Description:
The "Page Width" setting represents the width of the page format used for printing photos. Set it to your printers page width for the paper type you wish to use.

Use Printer Settings for Printing

This setting controls the usePrinterSettings property of the Flutter printing library within the photo booth application. This setting is Windows only, and makes a difference on some but not all printers, experiment.

CUPS printing

Printer

Like explained in the MomentoBooth capabilities, the application has multi-printer support. The Printer i setting with i 1, 2, ... allows selecting which printer(s) to use. Every selected printer will create another printer setting in the UI.

The options for a printer selection (in the form of a combo-box) are the printers currently configured on the OS. Icons show if the selected printer is currently connected and whether it is the system's default printer or not.

It is possible to select the same printer multiple times. Prints are assigned round-robin.

Page Size (normal, split, small, tiny)

This setting specifies the page size used for creating a print for the selected print size.

When a page size is configured for a given print size, a user can choose between normal print size, small print size, and tiny print size. The split page size is used when a normal print size is selected and the collage to be printed is a split-layout, i.e. 3-photo layout.

Options:

The options for this setting are populated by the available page sizes for the first selected printer in the CUPS section. The size name is given, followed by the corresponding dimensions in mm.

For small and tiny print sizes, a grid can be configured to print multiple copies of a photo on one page. The options are as follows.

  • X – The number of columns
  • Y – The number of rows
  • Rotate – Whether to rotate the images (place them landscape instead of portrait)