AI Photo Booth — booth strips, backdrops and props from your selfie

An AI photo booth makes photo-booth pictures from a photo you already have, instead of from a camera in a booth. You upload a selfie or a group photo, describe the booth look — a four-frame strip, a curtain or themed backdrop, props, black and white — and an AI image model redraws the scene around your faces. On Kenerate it runs in Image Studio in your browser; nothing is installed.

Free to start. Sign in with Google, GitHub or Discord — no card — and a new account gets 25 credits. Qwen Image 3.0, the default here, is on the free plan: one booth edit from your photo costs 9.9 credits, so the starter credits cover two edits. Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst and Seedream 5.0 Pro use credits from one-time packs; the Starter pack is $15 for 1,300 credits, with no subscription. Joining pictures in Edit Studio's collage tool is free.

Two ways. Fast: add your photo, set the size to 1:3 and ask for “a vertical photo booth strip, four frames stacked top to bottom, a different pose in each” — the model draws all four frames in one image for 9.9 credits on Qwen Image 3.0, though faces can drift a little between frames. Exact: make four single edits with four poses (39.6 credits on Qwen), then open Edit Studio → Collage → 2 × 2 and drop them in for free. Edit Studio's collage has no four-in-a-column layout, so the four-edit route gives a 2×2 grid rather than a tall strip.

Yes — upload the group photo and write “keep all of us, every face, hairstyle and outfit exactly the same”. Faces that are large and turned to the camera keep their likeness best; a wide shot with small faces in the back is where it slips. Qwen Image 3.0 takes up to 3 photos per edit and Nano Banana 2.1 up to 14, so you can also add a separate photo of each person. Use only photos of adults who agreed.

Not as a booth on the night. Kenerate is an online editor: there's no webcam capture, kiosk mode, printer, QR sharing or guest gallery, so it doesn't replace a rented booth or event booth software. What it does well around an event: booth-style strips from photos you took, themed backdrops for invitations or thank-you posts, and a printable strip design — a 2×6 inch strip is 600 × 1800 pixels at 300 DPI, which is the 1:3 size here.

A virtual photo booth lets people who aren't in the same room get booth pictures online. With Kenerate, each guest signs in with their own account, uploads their own selfie and uses the same prompt — say, the neon party booth — so the results match. Collect the pictures afterwards and join them in Edit Studio's collage tool (up to 9 photos in one layout, free).

Anything you can describe: a plain booth curtain, a 1970s patterned curtain, pink and blue neon tubes, red and gold tinsel with string lights, a white flower wall, a pastel balloon garland with confetti, a gold sequin wall for New Year. Props work the same way — oversized sunglasses, paper moustaches, crowns, party hats, a chalkboard sign or a speech bubble. Keep it to one backdrop and two or three props per person.

Write “black-and-white photo booth picture, high contrast, fine film grain, dark curtain behind, hard direct flash”. “Black-and-white film” gives grain and deep blacks; “grayscale” tends to look like a flat filter. Old booths printed four pictures on a narrow strip about 40 × 205 mm, so pick the 1:3 size (or 1:4 on Nano Banana 2.1) for the full effect.

Most event booths print 2×6 inch strips — a 600 × 1800 pixel layout at 300 DPI, printed two at a time on 4×6 paper and cut in half. The classic booth strip is about 40 × 205 mm. On Kenerate, pick 1:3 (Qwen Image 3.0, GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst, Seedream 5.0 Pro) or 1:4 (Nano Banana 2.1). For a single booth shot to post, 4:5 suits a feed post and 9:16 fills a phone-screen story.

Adults and pets only. The prompt filter blocks words such as child, kid, baby, toddler and teen, and any age under 18, and we ask you not to upload children's photos at all. It also catches everyday phrases: “baby blue” (write “pale blue”), “minor changes” (write “small changes”), “kid-friendly” (write “family-friendly”) and numbers before “years”. Remove the word and run it again.