Schaffenburg e.V.'s Photobooth Software

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This is a linux GUI application which captures live preview and exposures from a DSLR Camera and allows printing or social media sharing the photos.

(CC) 2016-2019 by Andreas Frisch (Fraxinas) photobooth@schaffenburg.org

Uses libgphoto2 to acquire live preview, trigger exposures and download photos via USB-tethering from ~380 supported DSLR models [1]
Support for dye-sublimation printers through gutenprint
Placement of individual full-screen overlay image (PNG with alpha transparency)
GDPR-aware: allows for photos to be automatically kept or deleted or prompted each time
Photos can be privately uploaded to a linx server with a QR code for the user to download them
Photos can be published to imgur / facebook (with optional twitter bridge)
GUI designed for single-touch screens
GUI is fully customizable, the widgets can be positioned in a template .ui file and styled in a .css file
Slider for choosing of how many copies to print (thresholds can be set in the config)
Strings can easily be replaced/translated, with UTF-8 & color emoji support
All times can be customized (exposure countdown, save/upload/print idle timeouts etc.)
Optional face detection for automatic placing of mask overlays
Optional ICC color correction
Sound output for countdown beep and GUI feedback
Controller for optional arduino-driven LED effects

Initially developed and tested under ARCH Linux [2].

Requires GTK3+ >3.20

To install this under *ubuntuish distros:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update

Photobooth uses the meson [3] build system

pip3 install meson

pacman -S ninja or apt-get install ninja-build

To build, please run:

meson build
ninja -C build

build/photobooth

will run the software with the default configuration from default.ini

the only command line argument is an alternative config file, where you can specify behaviour, graphics, texts etc.
for troubleshooting, use the GST_DEBUG=*photobooth*:LOG environmental variable
optionally uses the facedetect element from gst-plugins-bad which depends on OpenCV [4]
optionally uses my fork of the qroverlay element [5]