Free online photo booth for long distance: both of you in one strip

You can take a photo booth strip with someone far away on the free crisskross arena photo booth. One of you opens a booth and sends the link; when either of you presses the shutter, both phones count down together, each takes its own photo, and the two of you land side by side in every frame of the same strip. No app, no sign-in, nothing to pay.

It is the booth at the end of the pier, except you don't have to be on the same pier. Four shots, a countdown before each, a flash, and a strip at the end that both of you get to keep.

Why a long distance photo booth is harder than it sounds

The usual way to get a photo together across a distance is to screenshot the video call. It is always disappointing: you are sharp, they are a smear of compression, one of you is mid-blink, and the call's buttons are in the way.

The booth fixes the three things that go wrong:

• Both of you are sharp. Each phone shoots its own camera at full quality and sends its half to the other, so nobody is captured through the video stream.
• You are both ready at the same moment.One shutter, one countdown on both screens. Nobody says “wait, now?”.
• It looks like a photo strip, not a screenshot. The halves are put together in a proper strip with a look, a filter, the date and a caption.

How to use the online photo booth with someone far away

1. Open the booth. Go to crisskross arena's photo booth and choose "us, far apart".
2. Open a booth for two. Type your name and press "open a booth for us". You get a link and a 5-character code.
3. Send them the link. Send it by text, WhatsApp or Instagram. They open it and join; neither of you needs an account.
4. Get on the call. The video call starts inside the booth, so you can see each other and line up your poses.
5. Press the shutter. Either of you presses it. Both phones count down together and shoot four frames, or one snap.
6. Pick a look and save it. Choose a look, a filter and a caption. You both get the finished strip to save or share to a story.

Choose four shots for a classic strip with a countdown before each, or snap for one frame after a three-second countdown.

What you can do with the strip

• Pick one of ten looks — coquette bows, 35mm film, taped polaroids, a love note, after hours in black and white. They are all in the aesthetic photo booth guide.
• Add a filter: dreamy, rosy, golden, icy, vintage, b&w or pixel.
• Write a caption — the city each of you is in works better than you would think.
• Save it or share it. The strip is drawn at Instagram-story size, 1080 by 1920, and downloads free with no watermark unless you leave the small crisskross mark on.

Other ways to use it

• Just you, or both of you on one camera. The booth opens on your own camera, so it doubles as a free photo booth for one phone and two faces.
• Inside a game. Every crisskross game room has a video call, and the call carries the same booth. When a game ends, it offers to snap the win.
• As the end of a date. Roll a plan on D.A.T.E.and the booth's D.A.T.E. look prints tonight's plan under your photos.

Long distance photo booth ideas

• Same mug, same time. Both of you holding coffee in the morning on one side and night on the other.
• Hands to the screen. Reach towards the edge between your halves so you meet in the middle.
• The window view. Hold your phone up to what is outside, so the strip shows both cities.
• A strip a month. The same four poses every month. In a year you have twelve strips that tell the story.

There are twenty more in cute photo booth poses for couples.

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