dslrBooth Is Now LumaBooth: What the 2026 Rebrand Means for Photo Booth Owners

If you’ve opened your photo booth software lately and done a double-take, you’re not imagining it. As of version 8.0, the photo booth app we’ve all known as dslrBooth has been renamed LumaBooth for Windows. Same software, same license, same templates — new name, fresh coat of paint, and a llama. Let me walk you through exactly what changed and what it means for your booth.

The short version

On 24 March 2026, the team behind dslrBooth released the biggest Windows update in years and used the moment to bring all of their apps under one roof. The Windows app you run on your laptop is now LumaBooth for Windows, sitting alongside LumaBooth for iPad, iPhone and Mac. In the company’s own words, “LumaBooth for Windows is dslrBooth, grown up, unified, and more powerful than it has ever been.”

Nothing about your day-to-day workflow disappears. Your existing license keeps working, your events open like before, and — the bit that matters most for us — your DSLR Booth templates still work exactly as they did.

Why the name changed

For years the “DSLR” in dslrBooth caused confusion. Plenty of operators now run their booths from a webcam, an iPad or even a phone — no DSLR in sight — so the name no longer described who was actually using it. Pulling Windows, iPad, iPhone and Mac together under the single LumaBooth banner gives the company one brand to build on, and gives us one name to explain to clients. (And yes, there’s a new mascot: Luma the llama. I don’t make the rules.)

What’s new in LumaBooth 8.0

• A web dashboard. You can now build and edit events from any browser and have the changes sync straight to the booth. Setting up a wedding from the sofa the night before? Genuinely handy.
• 820+ templates included. The subscription now bundles over 820 professionally designed templates covering weddings, birthdays, corporate events and holidays.
• AI Portraits. 170+ AI styles can turn your guests into superheroes, oil paintings or 3D characters — no green screen required.
• Google Fonts. Thousands of fonts are now available for your welcome screens and overlays.
• Bigger, smoother overlays. Animated overlays are supported up to 50 MB, with faster event loading and general performance gains.

If you want the full feature-by-feature breakdown, I put together a side-by-side in LumaBooth vs dslrBooth: what’s actually changed.

What stays exactly the same

This is the part I get asked about most, so let me be blunt: you do not need to rebuild anything.

• Your existing license works identically — no repurchase, no migration fee.
• All of your events, templates, settings and saved data carry over automatically.
• The core features and the interface you already know are still here, just with a cleaner design.
• The same reliability you’ve trusted at live events hasn’t gone anywhere.

Do your templates still work? (Yes.)

Every template I feature on this site — including the 25 best DSLR Booth templates and the free templates round-up — loads in LumaBooth for Windows without any extra steps. The template format hasn’t changed with the rebrand, so the library you’ve already built is safe. I cover the import process in detail in do my DSLR Booth templates work in LumaBooth?

My take after running it on real events

I’ve now run LumaBooth 8.0 at a wedding and two corporate nights. Honestly? It feels like dslrBooth on a good day — the same muscle memory, but the web dashboard saved me a setup headache and the AI Portraits got more laughs than I expected. The rebrand is mostly a branding exercise on top of a solid, familiar app. If you were happy with dslrBooth, you’ll be happy here. And if you’ve been holding off on refreshing your designs, this is a perfect excuse to upgrade your template collection.