Photo Booth Template Size Guide: 2x6, 4x6, and Overlay Dimensions

Photo booth print templates are built at 300 DPI: a 2x6 strip is 600 x 1800 pixels, a 4x6 print is 1200 x 1800 pixels (or 1800 x 1200 landscape). Digital overlays should match your booth’s capture resolution, most commonly 1080 x 1920 for portrait-oriented social booths. Design inside a safe margin of about an eighth inch, because borderless printing trims the edges.

This one’s for operators and designers rather than event clients. We design every Ohh Snap template in house, hundreds of layouts a year across print and digital booths, and these are the numbers and habits that keep files from coming back wrong.

Print template dimensions at 300 DPI

Two production notes that save reprints:

• 300 DPI is the floor, not a suggestion. A 72 DPI file scaled up prints soft, and it’s the most common broken file we see.
• Design for the trim. Dye-sub printers print borderless by slightly overfilling the paper, so keep names, dates, and logos an eighth inch or more inside the edge, and extend background art all the way to it.

Overlay dimensions for digital booths

Digital overlays (the PNG frame applied to each capture) should match the booth’s capture resolution exactly, or they’ll stretch. The most common targets:

• 1080 x 1920 for portrait-oriented social booths and 360 video overlays
• 1080 x 1080 or 1200 x 1500 for square and 4:5 capture modes

Export as PNG with transparency, keep interactive areas clear, and test on a real capture before event day; a corner logo that looked fine in the mockup has ruined many a boomerang.

Slots, faces, and the layout itself

Dimensions are the easy half. What makes a template work is restraint: photo slots big enough that faces read at arm’s length, one type family, and event details that don’t fight the photos. We wrote a client-facing primer on what a photo booth layout is, and the same principles apply doubly to operators.

Skip the blank canvas

If you’d rather start from working files than a blank artboard, our photo booth resources are the actual templates and tools we use on the truck, at the venue, and in post, including social booth template packs and custom design services. And if you’re just getting into the business, start with how to start a photo booth business without starting from scratch.