Photo Booth Strip Maker

Photo booth strips, like the Korean 인생네컷 four-cut frames, put several shots one under another on a narrow 2 × 6 inch print. This maker builds that strip from photos you already have: four or three cuts on a strip, or a 2 × 2 or six-cut grid on a 4 × 6 inch print, with your frame colour, spacing, rounded corners, a caption and the date. The file is made at 300 dpi with the resolution written into it, and a PDF at the exact paper size prints correctly at 100%.

How to use this tool

1. Choose your photos in the order they should appear (top to bottom, left to right).
2. Pick a layout. For strips, tick "two strips on one 4 × 6 sheet" if you print on standard photo paper.
3. Set the frame colour, spacing and corner rounding; tick black-and-white for the classic booth look.
4. Type a caption and keep or change the date.
5. Download the JPG or PDF and print at actual size, or share the image directly.

Formula

cell width = (W − 2m − (columns − 1)g) ÷ columns · cell height = (H − m − caption − (rows − 1)g) ÷ rows

W × H is 600 × 1800 px for a 2 × 6 in strip and 1200 × 1800 px for 4 × 6 in, at 300 dpi. g is the spacing and m the outer margin (the spacing, at least 16 px); the caption area is 10% of the height when there is a caption or date. Each photo is scaled to cover its cell and cropped from the centre. Black-and-white uses luma Y = 0.299R + 0.587G + 0.114B.

Example

A 4-cut strip with 24 px spacing and a caption: cells are (600 − 48) = 552 px wide and (1800 − 24 − 180 − 72) ÷ 4 = 381 px tall, about 4.7 × 3.2 cm each when printed. A 4032 × 3024 phone photo is scaled by max(552/4032, 381/3024) = 0.137 and loses a little from the left and right edges.