pyPhotobooth

I wrote this photobooth software (and built the photobooth itself) for my sister's wedding banquet over the course of a month back in 2012. During the wedding banquet, the software ran under WinXP and printed to a Canon PIXMA MG5320, but I have since ran it successfully on WinVista and Win7 for a friend's wedding in 2014 and a birthday party in 2015. The software should also run under Linux, but printing currently only works in Windows. Printing in Linux should work as well if the code in the photobooth.print.winPrint module is ported. The only printer I have used with pyPhotobooth is a Canon PIXMA MG5320.

Prerequisites

(These are the versions I developed with, under Windows. Earlier/later versions may also work):

• Python 2.7.3
• OpenCV-2.3.1-win-superpack.exe
• cmake-2.8.7-win32-x86.exe
• pygame-1.9.1.win32-py2.7.msi
• PIL-1.1.7.win32-py2.7.exe
• scipy-0.10.1-win32-superpack-python2.7.exe
• numpy-1.6.1-win32-superpack-python2.7.exe
• pywin32-217.win32-py2.7.exe
• CherryPy-3.2.2.win32.exe

Simplified instructions for compiling/installing OpenCV for Windows

Complete instructions here: http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/InstallGuide

1. Extract OpenCV-2.3.1-win-superpack.exe to C:\OpenCV
2. Ensure cmake-2.8.7-win32-x86.exe is installed
3. From DOS prompt:
   • a. cd C:\OpenCV # the directory containing INSTALL, CMakeLists.txt etc.
   • b. mkdir release
   • c. cd release
   • d. cmake -D:CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE -D:BUILD_PYTHON_SUPPORT=ON C:\OpenCV
4. Open/build C:\opencv\release\OpenCV.sln with Microsoft Visual Studio (I used VS2010 Professional. OpenCV docs say Express Editions of VS2008 and VS2010 also work).
5. After successful build, copy cv.py and cv2.pyd in C:\opencv\build\python\2.7\ to C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages

Note: A user reported back to me that he was able to install the pre-built OpenCV libraries (http://docs.opencv.org/doc/tutorials/introduction/windows_install/windows_install.html), rather than compile them as I did, and successfully use pyPhotoBooth. I don't remember now why I took the more complicated route of compiling from the OpenCV source. I think I couldn't find or had problems using the pre-built binaries. Though compiling is very straightforward and I didn't run into any problems at all, definitely try the pre-built libraries first.

Running pyPhotobooth

At command prompt, go to directory where photobooth.bat is located. Run photobooth.bat with the location of a settings.ini file. (This assumes python.exe is in your PATH. Edit photobooth.bat to provide full path to python.exe if necessary)

Example: photobooth.bat event1conf\settings.ini