AI Photo Booth Pro
Photo, video and AI in one event app.
AI Photo Booth Pro
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Supported Camera Models
Supported Camera Models
How to Login to the Application?
You can log in to the Activation King photo booth application in two ways: Login with Activation King (account login via the system browser) or Login with Email Code (one-time verification code sent to your e-mail). You can also change the interface language at the bottom of the login screen. After…
Camera Issues and USB Power Management
Camera Issues and USB Power Management
How to Use Dashboard?
Control Panel is the main screen that opens after logging in; From here you see your subscription/credit/event summary, go to all sections of the application with the left menu, launch the cabin and log out.
How to Create an Event?
An event is created with the step-by-step Create New Event wizard on the Event Management page: enter a name/description, choose whether to start from scratch or by copying an existing event, (if copying) select the source event, and set the template format (portrait/landscape/both) and the event…
How to Use Guided Setup?
A short wizard ( /eventsetup ) that opens right after a new event is created, walking the operator step by step through the 5-6 most critical settings. It brings together colors, session behavior, sharing buttons, (if applicable) video duration, and camera selection into a single flow; at the end…
Event Settings — How to Use the 'Main' Tab
The General tab is where you edit the currently selected event's basic identity details — its name and description. Changes are saved automatically, without a separate save button.
Event Settings — How to Use the Event Mode Tab
The Event Settings 'Event Mode' tab brings three decisions together in one place: whether the event runs online or offline ( Event Mode ), the booth layout ( Booth Mode : Classic / 360° / GlamBot) and the output formats guests can capture ('Capture modes': Photo / GIF / Video / Boomerang)…
Event Settings — How to Use the 'Output' Tab?
The Output tab shows the activity's output direction (Portrait/Landscape) and active experience types as read-only; these values are automatically derived from the templates you add to the activity. Actual output settings such as video codec (H.264/HEVC) and output quality (low/high) are in the…
Event Settings — How to Use the 'Camera' Tab?
The 'Camera' tab of Event Settings is where you select and connect the camera for the kiosk, control the live preview and adjust brightness/rotation/mirror/flash (on a DSLR also advanced exposure like ISO, shutter, aperture) settings. The tab consists of two parts: Add Camera at the top, Camera…
Event Settings — How to Use the Kiosk Tab?
The 'Kiosk' tab of Event Settings contains three settings that determine the operating behavior of the booth: (1) Dashboard PIN — sets a 4-digit PIN to exit the running event screen and return to the control panel (Settings); (2) Run on Startup — Enables the application to open automatically when…
What Is a Template, and What Is It For?
A template is the output design (layout) that your captured photo or video is placed into. It consists of a canvas size (e.g. 4×6, 6×4, 2×6 strip, 5×7), a background color, and layers: photo/capture slots, text, logo, shapes, QR code, and AI effect/FaceSwap/AI video layers. The number of capture…
How to Create a Photo Template?
The flow for creating a photo template from scratch: from the Photo tab of the Templates page, the "Create New" button opens a 4-step wizard (Type → Size → Layout → Style); pressing "Create" takes you to the canvas editor; after you edit and exit, the template is saved automatically. Use this flow…
How to Import a Ready-Made Template?
Add ready-made templates to your event from the template library. Select the designs you want, then add them together.
How to Edit an Existing Template?
There are two ways to edit a template in AI Photo Booth Pro. Templates you created or have modified before (that belong to you) are edited directly; the changes are saved onto the same card. Default (ready-made) templates and wizard-generated templates that have never been touched are marked with a…
Portrait or Landscape? Template Orientation and Size
In AI Photo Booth Pro, when you create a template, orientation (portrait/landscape) and size are set on step 2 of the wizard, the "Select a size" screen. There is no separate portrait/landscape button — orientation is embedded in the size you choose: each measurement has two versions (e.g., 4×6…
Template Background: Color, Gradient and Image
In the template editor (Template Editor) there are three separate methods for setting a template background, and they must not be confused. (1) Canvas Background color: the base that sits at the very bottom of the canvas and cannot be deleted or moved; it can only be a solid color or a gradient, no…
How to Create a Video / GIF Template?
A Video / GIF template is the frame/layout applied to the output of a video or animated GIF session (labeled GIF / Video , described as Animated GIF or video output ). The creation flow uses the same 4-step wizard as the photo template (Type → Size → Layout → Style), but there are three important…
How to Enable 2 Inch Cut (Photo Strips)?
2 Inch Cut physically splits the print into 2×6 photo strips. The switch is not on the printer, but in the template — it is enabled separately for each template. There are two ways to make the cut: if the printer is connected directly (USB) (Windows/macOS), or over the network via WCM Pro —…
What are AI Assets and How to Use them?
AI Assets is the section where you manage the artificial intelligence-supported image and video assets that will be presented to guests at your event from a single place. It consists of three tabs — AI Effects , AI Face Swaps and AI Video — and the ones you choose are automatically applied to the…
How to Add and Use Stock AI Effect?
The application allows you to select ready-made AI effects from the server (Editor effects, Default effects) and effects from your own library from a catalog and add them to your active event. This document explains the steps of adding ready-made effects from the library, displaying them in the…
How to Create Special AI Effect?
Steps to create your own custom AI photo effect from scratch in the AI Assets → AI Effects tab: AI model and resolution selection, prompt writing, reference/intro images, testing and cover art. The saved effect is added to the event's Active AI Effects gallery.
How to Add and Use Stock AI Video?
AI Video (motion) effects turn a guest's photo into a short AI video. This document explains the steps to add, name, sort, favorite and remove ready-made AI video effects with Browse Library from the event; Creating a new effect from scratch is in a separate document.
How to Create Custom AI Video?
You design your own AI motion video with the Create New button in the Settings → AI Assets → AI Video tab: enter a name, AI model, video prompt, and optional generative visual prompt; It tests with an input photo if you want; You set the cover media (image or video) and the ring aperture option and…
How to Use Video to AI Video?
Video to AI Video is a separate AI feature whose input is a video, not a photo — it lives in Settings → AI Assets → Video to AI Video tab. The AI Video (AiMotion) feature in Documents 20/21 takes a photo as input and is a completely different feature ; the two are not in the same tab, don't mix…
How to Use Face Swap?
AI Face Swap is an AI feature that replaces a guest's face with stock character images. The operator creates galleries (character collections) or adds them to the event from the Settings > AI Assets > AI Face Swaps tab, uploads character (target) images to each gallery, selects which face will…
What is Screen Design, How to Use General Tab?
Screen Design (appears as Screen Design in the app) is the Design section, where you customize the appearance of the booth screens — colors, theme, logo, backgrounds, and opacity — and consists of 8 tabs. The first tab, General , allows you to manage global appearance settings common to all booth…
How to Design the Welcome (Welcome) Screen?
The Welcome screen is the first (welcome) screen that guests see when the booth opens. This tab places each element above the screen — live camera preview, call text (CTA), session start buttons, gallery, and logo — in a 3×3 grid of positions; You set size, format, alignment, and label options. You…
How to Design the Capture Screen?
The Capture tab of the Screens page is where you position and size the on-screen elements that the guest sees during the photo/video capture (live camera preview, countdown, photo thumbnails, logo, cancel button, flash effect, and background). The top Screen Preview shows changes live immediately…
How to Design the Sharing Screen?
The Sharing screen determines the APPEARANCE of the result and sharing screen shown to the guest after shooting: which element (result photo, action buttons, share buttons, QR, gallery, logo, progress bar) will appear where on the screen, its size, shape and background. This tab is layout/design…
How to Design the Pause Screen?
The pause tab is where you design the waiting screen that will be displayed to guests when you pause the booth for a break (e.g. coffee break); This screen opens as an overlay on top of the Welcome/home screen. From here you set the waiting message, title, logo, item positions, a custom background…
How to Set Animations ?
The Animations tab (only part Video Animations ) lets you set short videos or images to play at four key moments in the photo capture flow: the idle screen ( Attention Grabber ), just before the photo ( Say Cheese ), before the countdown ( Before Capture ), and after the shot ( After Capture ). For…
How to Customize Texts ?
The Texts tab of the Screen Design page allows you to change all button texts, titles and messages that guests see on the booth (kiosk) screens with your own expressions or translations. First you select the guest language, turn on the Customize Texts switch, then edit each tag screen by screen…
How to Set Voices ?
The Voices tab manages the audio prompts (countdown, selection, post-take, processing, payment, thank you sounds) that will be played to guests throughout the kiosk experience. The main Voice Guidance switch is opened first; When this switch is turned on, audio lines for 8 moments of the experience…
What are Sharing Settings and How to Configure them?
Sharing Settings is where you determine how booth guests will receive their photos and videos. The page is divided into three tabs: Activation Share (cloud/QR sharing and microsite), E-Mail Sharing and SMS Sharing . Each setting is applied to the currently selected event and saved automatically…
How to Install and Use 'ActivationShare'?
The Activation Share tab manages sharing the photos/videos taken with guests via the cloud (QR code, online gallery button, local sharing page of the device) and customizing the online Microsite opened after sharing according to the brand. QR/gallery/share keys are available to all plans; Logo…
How to Set Sharing with E-Mail ?
This flow covers the E-Mail Sharing tab in Sharing settings, which allows guests to receive photo/video printouts via email: turning on the feature, choosing a provider (Gmail/Outlook one-click connection or Custom SMTP), sending a test, sending printouts as attachments, and editing the subject +…
How to Set Sharing with SMS ?
To enable guests to receive photo/print links via text message (SMS), you enable SMS in the SMS Sharing tab in Sharing settings, connect your own Twilio account, verify with a test SMS, and customize the message text to the guest. SMS are sent through your Twilio account; Fees and limits depend…
How to Make Print Settings?
The print settings page is on the Print tab in the Run group in the left menu and only works when an event is selected. It consists of four parts: (1) Add Printer — connecting local (USB) or remote (station) printers and monitoring their status; (2) Printer Settings — alignment/scale fine-tuning…
What is Session Settings, How to Use General (Main) Tab?
On the session page, settings for a live shooting session are grouped into five tabs: General (footage flow, triggers, output folder, durations), 360 / Video (video codec, quality, effects, music), Survey , Disclaimer , and Payments . This document describes the General tab; See the 360 / Video tab…
Session — How to Use the 360 / Video Tab?
The 360 / Video tab in the session settings manages the technical settings of the final video output produced in video and 360 booth modes: video codec ('Output Codec'), output quality ('Output Quality'), video effects ('Video Effects' — slow motion/fast-pace/rewind timeline) and rendered…
How to Set Payments Tab?
The Payments tab in session settings allows you to charge guests in your booth via Stripe for print and digital downloads. In this tab, you first turn on payment, connect your Stripe account (and an optional Stripe Terminal card reader), then configure payment options such as currency, price…
How to Set Survey Tab?
The Survey tab in the session settings allows you to display a short survey / data collection form to guests during the event session and collect feedback by name, email, phone, free text and optional questions. You open the survey, enter the title and subheading, choose when the form will appear…
How to Set Disclaimer (Disclaimer) Tab?
The Disclaimer tab configures the approval/consent (KVKK/permission) screen that is shown to the guest before the session starts. From here you toggle the disclaimer and customize the title and rich-text body to display. The setting is event specific; If the guest does not accept during the…
What is White-Label and How is it Used?
White Labeling is the section where you customize the app, sharing/download site, and custom domain with your own branding. It consists of three tabs ( Domain , App , Microsite ) and is only open on the Ultimate (Ultimate AI) plan. Settings are at the account level — applied to the entire…
White-Label — How to Set App Brand?
The App tab of the White Labeling page allows you to customize the app's own branding (app name and two logos); settings are stored at the account level and are reflected within the app, in the left sidebar and on the home screen when the main 'Enable WhiteLabel' switch is on. This tab is only open…
White-Label — How to Connect Custom Domain (Domain)?
In the Domain tab of the White Labeling page, you link your custom domain (e.g. photos.markam.com) to the photo booth sharing/microsite links. Flow: write the domain name → server automatically generates DNS records (TXT for ownership + CNAME for redirection) → add these records to your own DNS…
White-Label — How to Brand Microsite ?
This flow describes the branding of the web microsite ( Microsite tab), where guests scan the QR and access the photo gallery: ready-made themes or individual colors, Title / Copyright Text / Company Info texts, custom logo and extra background (image/video). All changes appear immediately in the…
How to Install and Use OBS Virtual Camera in Booth?
It tells you how to broadcast the scene in OBS as a camera with OBS Studio's 'Virtual Camera' feature and select it as a camera in the booth application. The document is in two parts: first you install OBS outside the app and launch the virtual camera, then you select it from the booth's Event…
How to Connect to Canon/Nikon DSLR Booth?
This guide describes connecting a Canon or Nikon DSLR camera to the booth via USB cable and using it in the app: first the physical preparation and connection of the camera (non-app), then detection/selection, live preview and Advanced Settings (ISO / Shutter Speed / Aperture, Read Status , Set…
How to Connect GoPro to Booth?
This guide explains how to connect a GoPro to a photo booth: first you prepare the GoPro and Windows PC, then pair via Bluetooth with Connect a New GoPro from the GoPro section of the Add Camera window in Event Settings → Camera, the app automatically connects to the GoPro's WiFi. GoPro mounting is…
Camera Problems — Symptom, Cause, Solution
Symptom-cause-solution guide for camera not connecting to the photo booth kiosk, no preview, error during shooting and DSLR/GoPro/virtual camera (OBS) specific problems. All error texts are taken from the real Turkish source file of the application (SettingsResource.tr.resx).
Printing Problems — Symptom, Cause, Solution
Printing mostly works in Windows and is managed in two places: the left menu 'Run → Print' settings page (add printer, tweak, behavior, limits) and the Print button on the post-capture booth results screen. This document explains typical symptoms such as no printout, wrong size, offline printer, 2…
Sharing, Sync & Login Issues — Symptom, Cause, Solution
It describes the most common symptoms on the side of sharing (QR/email/SMS), cloud sync, internet connection and login (login with Activation King/email code OTP) on Activation King photo booth kiosk along with actual error messages verified from the code. Each item contains a symptom + cause +…
Reference and Appendices
A quick-reference layer: what requires which plan, which settings change other settings, what spends credits, how to resolve common surprises, and a plain
How to Use Your Events on Another Computer? (Cloud Sync)
Import, transfer or copy an event to a second computer: sign in with the same account and pull your cloud events onto the new device with every setting intact.
Custom Photo Background with AI Background Removal (No Green Screen)
Put guests in front of your own background image, with or without a green screen: an image layer plus the AI Background Removal layer in your template.
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