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Found Footage: The do-it-yourself wedding photo booth
In the case of Mac user David Cline, you end up with a very happy sister! During planning for his sister Helen's recent wedding, Cline looked into renting a wedding photo booth that would take pictures of guests, save a digital copy, and then print out a strip of photos for the guests to take home as a keepsake. The cost for the rental was prohibitively expensive -- about US$2,000 a day.
David quickly decided that by combining his Mac, a special Automator workflow that he created, an Epson PictureMate Dash printer, an old wardrobe frame, and colorful shower curtains from Ikea, he could inexpensively re-create the functionality of the expensive rental.
His Automator script prompted wedding guests for their names, took 3 photos, arranged the photos in a vertical strip, displayed the photos on the screen for the guests to view, printed out the photo strip, and then saved the individual photos and photo strips in digital form onto the Mac. After the wedding, the photos were uploaded to an online photo album.
From the looks of the happy wedding guests, the Do-It-Yourself Photo Booth was a success. I'd venture to say that David Cline is ranking high in the standings for the "Brother of the Year Award."
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
EMoShunz said 2:16PM on 8-17-2009
now that is something to make really good use of a really good platform. way to show the capabilities of a mac in a way everyone (almost) can use at some point or another!
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BigB said 2:28PM on 8-17-2009
Yeah this is really cool, I can't wait to try it out for various holidays.
Automator is such a kick ass platform, its a shame its pretty underutilized in most mac users day to day life.
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david said 11:13PM on 8-17-2009
I agree completely! It is a secret gem on every single mac!
wmcraveronline said 2:30PM on 8-17-2009
That is awesome! Any chance of seeing the workflow of the automator script?
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david said 11:12PM on 8-17-2009
check out my blog for the donate/download link
thanks :)
Martin said 2:36PM on 8-17-2009
I'd love to see the script too. Nice post.
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Tristan OTierney said 2:39PM on 8-17-2009
If you're looking for a more digital photobooth, FlickrBooth's probably a better fit. I'm not a big printer/paper person.
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david said 3:16PM on 8-17-2009
well the printer/paper part is the 'wedding favor' part of the set-up
also, this script is set up in such a way to allow more automation, which was REALLY easy and fun for the older crowd!
david said 3:15PM on 8-17-2009
Hey everyone,
its David Cline here
check out the blog to download application, and please consider donating :)
http://davidcline.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/diy-wedding-photo-booth/
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Maxim Bulat said 3:43PM on 8-17-2009
Thank you very much for letting us see and download your Automator workflow.
Leif said 3:21PM on 8-17-2009
This is very cool! The only thing I would add is a script to post photos to facebook :)
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Mark said 3:48PM on 8-17-2009
I'm getting married in May and was thinking of doing a "video confessional" booth with Photo Booth. Any ideas on how to do that with Automator?
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Tony said 7:37AM on 8-19-2009
Checkout my video guestbook at www.ivideoguestbook.com
Tony
DM said 6:50PM on 8-17-2009
I donated via PayPal and didn't get a link for the Automator action. So I would be very skeptical of donating money for this or to this person.
I went against my better judgement.
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david said 11:11PM on 8-17-2009
@DM
I emailed you the link to the automator a few minutes before you posted your comment here. Please check your email! :)
Thanks for checking it out
Ryno said 7:47PM on 8-18-2009
I just donated and got an email for the download link right away. I setup a new user account on my mac and setup the resolution to it's lowest (so that the photo booth countdown preview looks larger). Then I made a border in photoshop (like David did) and I'm all set for my wedding photo booth next June, thanks a lot David!!!
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Roy said 9:19PM on 8-19-2009
I was wondering what programs the automator uses? Is it all built in stuff with the mac? I am assuming its photobooth, but after that what program is being used to have the photos imposed 3 up?
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david said 4:44PM on 8-20-2009
It completely utilizes Automator; it in fact doesn't use the full Photo Booth application. Check it out :)
Jack said 4:03AM on 8-20-2009
After I viewd the video and post. I just found it is a article about how to use a tools to DIY your photo ablums.
Just this, I think I muse do a photo booth for my pictures in http://www.discount-laptop-battery.co.uk/
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Angie said 12:25PM on 9-10-2009
Hi I donated yesterday but did not receive a link...?
Thanks,
Angie
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