Save The Date Photo Booth Postcards

Reproducing the Photo booth look for Save The Date cards are super popular wit DIY card and invitation makers. They are fun and flirty and just look good. You may be surprised to find out that they are pretty easy to make yourself even if you don't have access to a photo booth. In fact it is probably better to use a regular camera with a plain background so that you can take as many shots as you need to get your pictures just right.

We will be writing up a couple of tutorials very soon but in the meantime take a look at what other diy invite makers have come up with.

(Click on the invitation to see more how to details)

photo booth save the date cards
A real photo booth

Fake photo booth

METHOD 1 - Photo booth and Photoshop

This method requires you to head down to your local photo booth for some pictures and manipulate the images in Photoshop.

You will need

Access to a photo booth
Adobe Photoshop or similar program + some basic skill is a little Photoshop knowledge to make this happen.
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Plain white card stock or paper

Step One

Take one white 8.5x11 sheet of card stock with you in the photo booth

Step Two

Get your smiles and funny faces ready and start taking your pictures. Don't hold back on the crazy poses.

Step Three

Scan the strip into Photoshop and create the type layers to fit in the white squares of paper. (So it looked like we had 4 individual cards that said "Save the Date, March 13, 2009").

Made by Kristy-Lee Lawley
Orlando, FL, USA.

METHOD 2 - Fake a photo booth with Photoshop

Another photo shop technique that can be used by anyone who doesn't live near a photo booth or simply want to save costs by creating their own vintage photo booth look with a regular camera, a plain background and a little Photoshop knowledge.

You will need

Camera
Plain background - wall, closed curtains,
Photoshop
White cards and a marker
Vistaprint.com
You can download these Photostrip brushes made in CS2. They have great texture and are free for your personal use.

Step 1

Take your white cards and with a marker pen write on each the words 'Save', 'The' and 'Date' on three separate cards as well as the date of the wedding on the last card.

Step 2

Find a plain background and take your pictures holding each of the signs. When you are done, upload the photos to your computer ready to be manipulated in Photoshop

Note: your background can be any color as long as it is plain and not busy. If you are going to be making black and white pics then give some thought to contrast. ie. If your background is dark, wear light colored clothing and vice versa.

Step 3

Create a faux photo strip with your photos in Photoshop. There are ten million different ways to skin this cat and here is one that is pretty simple to describe. (you can also download the free brushes above)

make a new document around 40mm x 205mm (these are the approximate dimensions of the old school photo booth strips)
Create a white layer for the strip itself (call it photostrip).
Use the selection tool to make rectangle shapes to delete from the white layer.
Open up your photos and drag them into your document under the photostrip layer and resize it accordingly.

Postcard STD's

These creative Save The Date postcards were made by Megan. She and hubby to be took used the method above to create the photo strips and then used Vistaprint.com to print them in a postcard format. The picture below is the back of the postcard with the photostrip to the left and space for the recipients address and postage stamp on the right. Megan filled in the rest of the white space with handwritten doodles and comments.