Photo Booth Studio
What is a photo booth template?
A photo booth template is the designed frame your photos drop into: the layout of photo slots (the classic vertical strip, a 2×2 grid, a postcard), plus the decoration around them — event name, date, colors, and graphics. The template is what turns four selfies into a keepsake that says "Ana & Luis, July 2026."
The problem with downloadable templates
Search for "photo strip template" and you'll find marketplace listings selling PSD and PNG overlay files. They work, but they require photo editing software, the right pixel dimensions, and manual compositing after the event. For a live booth, you need the template inside the capture app, so every session composes and prints itself. That's how Photo Booth Studio works: templates are live — photos flow into the layout the moment they're taken.
Option 1: start from a premade template
Photo Booth Studio ships with ready-made template packs organized by occasion — birthday, wedding, graduation, baby shower, and seasonal holidays such as Christmas and Halloween. Pick one, and it's immediately ready to shoot and print. Most are editable too: swap the name, change the date, keep the design.
Option 2: design your own from scratch
The built-in designer gives you the same building blocks professional template designers use, live on your iPad:
- Layouts: 87 layouts across six print sizes (2×6, 4×6, 6×4, 4×4, 3×4, and 5×7 inches) — pick how many shots each session takes and how they're arranged, and switch each photo frame between rectangular, rounded, star, heart, and circle shapes.
- Text & fonts: more than 200 font families in six categories, from script to modern; add names, dates, and hashtags.
- More than 500 stickers: florals, balloons, graduation caps, hearts, party hats — drag them onto the strip.
- Colors & backgrounds: match the strip to your event palette exactly.
- Precise controls: layer ordering, duplication, transparency, and alignment tools, with pinch, rotate, and drag gestures on every element.
Template ideas by event
- Wedding: names + date in a script font, white or blush background, one floral corner. See the full wedding booth guide.
- Birthday: "Emma turns 10" in a bold font with confetti stickers — ideas in the birthday guide.
- Quinceañera: blush pink + metallic gold, bilingual caption — see quinceañera photo booth ideas.
- Graduation: school colors, "Class of 2026", cap sticker — see the grad party guide.
- Corporate: logo, event hashtag, brand color border. A clean, simple design works best for prints displayed at a desk.
From template to printed strip
Once the template's set, the pipeline is automatic: guests shoot, the app composes the strip, and it prints over AirPrint or shares by QR code, iMessage, WhatsApp, email, or AirDrop. Printing details — paper sizes, the 2×6 double-print option, printer recommendations — are in the photo strip printing guide. You can also use any template in collage mode, filling its frames with photos from your library instead of the camera.
FAQ
Do custom templates cost extra?
The app is free to download and try, with ready-made templates and the designer built in. The Pro subscription removes the Booth Studio watermark from your photos and prints and lifts the limits on custom templates and events — the setup you'd want for a real event.
Can I reuse a template for the next event?
Yes — your designs are saved. Duplicate last year's birthday strip and update the age.
What size is a classic photo strip?
2×6 inches, four photos stacked. Strip templates print two-up on standard 4×6 photo paper with the double-print option — cut once down the middle.
Design your photo strip in minutes
Download Photo Booth Studio and build a custom template with your event's name, colors, and stickers — no design experience needed, free to try.
