Read this page first. It explains the single idea the whole app revolves around — and once that clicks, every other screen makes sense.
What this app is
AI Photo Booth Pro turns a Windows machine into a photo booth kiosk. There are really two apps inside one program:
- The admin panel (back office) — the configuration side described here. This is where the operator logs in, creates events, designs templates, sets up the camera, printer and sharing, and gets everything ready.
- The booth — the full-screen experience your guests tap to take photos. You launch it from the admin panel with the Run the App button. The main body of this guide (Parts 0–15) covers the preparation and configuration side; the live capture flow itself — including the guest picking a template and taking photos, plus the OBS setup — is covered together, hands-on, in Part 16.
You always configure for a specific Event. Almost every setting in this guide belongs to the event currently selected — when you switch events, you are configuring a different set of templates, camera and sharing.
The event is the center of everything
An Event is a single booth setup: a wedding, a brand activation, a birthday. It has its own templates, capture modes, camera choice, and sharing and print settings. This has a consequence you'll notice right away:
Until you select or create an event, the left sidebar only shows Dashboard, White Label and Events. The moment an event is active, the rest appears — Event Settings, Templates, AI Assets, Screens, Session, Sharing and Printing. If a menu item you expect is missing, the answer is almost always "no event has been selected yet."
Selecting an event fires an internal CurrentEventChanged signal. The sidebar rebuilds itself from scratch on that signal; every menu item is filtered by whether it depends on an event being selected, and by your license. The Run the App button is disabled for the same reason until an event is active.
How to read this guide
Every screen is written in the same three layers, so you can go as deep as you like:
- Numbered steps are the "just tell me what to tap" part.
- Behind the scenes notes explain what the app is actually doing — useful when something behaves unexpectedly.
- Caution notes point out the things that surprise people: settings that change other settings, actions that spend credits, or steps that can't be undone.
Explains the mechanism — services, automatic behaviors, why a screen reacts the way it does.
A point to watch, a dependency, or a "this also changes that" warning. Read these before you go live.
Can't be undone — it deletes data or resets to factory. Be sure.
Uses AI credits from your balance. The amount is stated each time.
You'll also see badges in the section headings: Pro and Ultimate mark features that require a higher plan, and Windows only marks controls that don't appear on tablets.
Throughout the guide, framed placeholders show exactly where each screenshot goes. The caption under each one tells you precisely which state to show.
