Photobooth Questions

malfunctn · Dec 27, 2010

Hello, this is my first post and hopefully not my last!

I have a few questions that I can't seem to find answers to that may be relatively easy and someone here may know.

I'm interested in starting up an open photo booth which would consist of my 7D tethered to a macbook, alienbeens ringflash, backdrop, 2nd monitor for viewing, and a few other things those are the basics. I recently saw one set up for xmas pictures at a nightclub in nashville. Here is a link to a photo from the event.

http://generationdomination.com/_media/photos/ba2d2fd456_f.jpg

The setup was pretty basic you walk up the backdrop and get your picture taken then walk over to the side where there is another monitor and you could see the picture of yourself in about 10 seconds. Then the monitor will just cycle through pictures from the whole night. Thats it now here are my questions.

How does the picture get watermarked and stylized so quickly coming straight from the camera? (software, actions?)
I noticed that they had Adobe Bridge open on the macbook along with EOS Utility and I think Photoshop.

I tried to figure out how they can get photoshop to automatically apply an action and stylize a photo so quickly then have it display to a 2nd monitor.

Any help or direction on this would be greatly appreciated thanks!