The photo-booth strip, sized for a real printer
A photo strip is three or four pictures stacked in a narrow column with a band at the bottom — the format of every booth at a wedding, a fair or a mall. Most strip makers online give you a picture that looks like a strip and leave the size to chance. This one works in printer units from the start: a 2 × 6 inch strip at 300 dots per inch, 600 pixels wide and 1800 tall, with that resolution written into the file. Taken to a print shop or a kiosk, it comes out the size it should.
Because many shops only print 4 × 6, there is a second paper option that lays two identical strips side by side on one 1200 × 1800 print. One cut down the middle gives you two strips — one to keep and one to give away.
How the frames are laid out
- Frames. Three or four, of equal size, separated and surrounded by the same gap. With the caption on, four frames on a strip with a 24-pixel gap come out at 552 × 371 pixels each.
- Cropping. Each photo fills its frame and is cropped from its centre; nothing is stretched. Add photos in the order you want them, or move them with the arrows on each card.
- Gap and colour. The gap is in pixels at 300 DPI and shown in millimetres; 24 pixels is 2 mm on paper. The frame colour is any swatch or any colour you pick.
- Caption band. A band about 0.66 inch tall under the frames, holding today’s date or whatever you type, in dark or light lettering chosen to stand out from the frame colour.
A worked example
Four 4000 × 3000 phone photos from a birthday. With the default settings the strip is 600 × 1800 pixels; each frame is 552 × 371, so every photo is scaled to 552 pixels wide and loses about 22 rows at the top and 22 at the bottom — about 157 rows each at the photo’s own size. The caption band reads “1 Nov 2026”. Switch the paper to the 4 × 6 print and the file becomes 1200 × 1800 with the same strip twice; saved as JPG at 95 % it is usually well under a megabyte.
Privacy, specifically
The photos are read and drawn into the strip inside this tab. Nothing is sent to a server, and the saved strip is a new drawing, so the camera details and location in the original photos are not copied into it.
Frames are always landscape-shaped on a 2 × 6 strip, so tall portraits lose some of their top and bottom. The caption is one line; there is no logo or sticker layer.
Photo strip questions
What size is a photo strip?
The classic photo-booth strip is 2 × 6 inches. At 300 dots per inch, the resolution most photo printers and print shops work at, that is 600 × 1800 pixels — the size this page saves, with 300 DPI written into the file so the shop's software reads it as 2 × 6 inches rather than guessing.
My print shop only prints 4 × 6. Can I still get a strip?
Choose Two on a 4 × 6 in print. You get 1200 × 1800 pixels with two identical strips side by side; cut down the middle and you have two 2 × 6 strips from one ordinary photo print, which is usually the cheapest print size at any shop or kiosk.
My photos are portrait. Will they fit the frames?
They are filled and cropped from the centre, because a strip's frames are wider than they are tall. A portrait photo loses some of its top and bottom; keep the faces near the middle of each photo. The list under the preview says how many pixels were trimmed from each one.
Can I write a caption in Hindi?
Yes. The caption is drawn with your device's own fonts, and Android, Windows, iPhone and Mac all include Devanagari, so a Hindi caption prints as it reads on screen. The text shrinks to fit if it is long; keep it to a date or a few words.
Should I save as JPG or PNG for printing?
JPG at 95 % is what print shops expect and keeps the file small enough to send over WhatsApp; PNG is exact but several times larger. Either way the DPI is written into the file.
