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($55 might seem like a lot, but depending on how you value your time, you’ll definitely spend at least that much DIY-ing something like it). It allows you to customize the photo layout, print automatically, and auto-post to Facebook, Flickr, etc. Sparkbooth – This seems to be the most popular option, and costs $55.But, honestly, there are some great paid options out there that don’t cost much:
#Build a photobooth for free
There are a million ways to do this, and if you want to spend some time, you can figure out a way to make your own for free (you could start with our Apple Automator script and see if you can update it). We also think your version of a “booth”, should put the photos into a vertical strip, and print them! Ideally, what you want is a real photo booth! A “booth” where you press a button, and then the camera takes three or four pictures of you, automatically (and without warning … that’s how you get those fun candid/weird/awkward moments that photo strips are known for). But that’s what many of the solutions out there offer (like this one, from HGTV, for example). Here’s the thing a diy photo booth is not a person standing there with a camera taking pictures of people in front of a backdrop. Our photo booth seems to work fine on Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7. Apparently, since we wrote our DIY Photobooth post (four years ago!), the world has caught on and there are now hundreds (thousands?) of results in Google for this sort of thing.