Photo Capture: Backgrounds, Overlays & Layouts

In the survey builder, click Add Question and choose a photo type. Both types have every option on this page.

Open the Background panel of the question and turn on Live background removal. The background is removed on the device while the camera is open, and this question does not use the event setting.

1. 1

   Choose a backdrop

   Pick Transparent (PNG), White, Custom colour or Image.

2. 2

   Pick the image source

   For Image, choose Upload an image, Form widget image or Previous question image (an earlier Photo, Upload Photo, Image Select or Drawing answer).

3. 3

   Add backgrounds

   With Upload an image, click Add background for each picture. Add 2 or more to let guests choose. Drag the handle to reorder.

4. 4

   Edit each background

   Tap a background to give it a Name and Description guests see, mark it Use when the camera opens (the default, shown with a star), link overlays, and limit it with Show on.

5. 5

   Let guests pick

   With 2 or more backgrounds, Let guests pick a background adds a Backgrounds button on the camera. Otherwise the default background is used.

Better quality with a credit cuts out the taken photo on the server with 1 background removal credit when online. The live preview still uses the on-device cut-out, and offline or with no credits left the on-device cut-out is used. Use Copy these backgrounds to other photo questions to reuse them.

Under Design → Camera overlays (PNG), click Add overlay to upload transparent PNGs that show over the camera view.

When a question has overlays, each background has a Linked overlays setting. Linked overlays must belong to the same question.

Instead of a small dialog, guests can choose on a full screen menu where every card shows their live camera. Full Screen Background Selection needs 2 or more backgrounds; Full Screen Overlays Selection needs 2 or more overlays. Guests pick the background first, then the overlay.

Click Preview the full screen selection to check it in portrait and landscape. The pickers use the survey Transition Animation (Fade, Slide, Scale or Bounce): the camera fades out, then the picker animates in.

Each photo question has a Layout editor card. Place the photo on a print size like 4" × 6" with borders, text, pictures, stickers and answers, then Test print. The finished layout is saved as the photo. Overlay on the finished layout draws the overlay over the whole layout, and Camera matches this box shapes the live camera to the photo box.

In the Combined layout editor, the Saved as section has Also save each photo's own layout (off by default). Off: the photos placed in the combined layout skip their own layouts and only the combined layout is saved. On: each of those photos that has its own layout is also saved with it, next to the combined layout. In the Photo layouts list, those photos show an Own layout also saved label. When you create a new layout, you can start blank, from a Saved layout or from ready-made examples grouped by theme (classic prints, photo strips, weddings, parties, corporate, social media, holidays and collages) with different sizes, backgrounds, photo boxes and texts. In a photo question's own layout, every photo box shows the same guest photo (handy for strips); to fill boxes with different photos, use the Combined layout, which fills the boxes with your photo questions in order.

On the survey Translations tab, the Photo Capture section now includes the Filters, Overlays and Backgrounds buttons and titles, the full screen picker texts, every filter name and the soft skin steps. Use the search box to find a field quickly. See Translations.