Take A Selfie

Take a Selfie allows you to create a branded selfie experience that users can share on their social networks. It can be used to take a photo with a celebrity or customized backgrounds and frames.

Key terms

Take a Selfie: A pre-made widget that allows you to use transparent .png to create selfie experiences with celebrities or customized backgrounds and frames.  

Canvas: A contained space in Blippbuilder that holds drawing and creation elements for your blipp. Located in the center of the screen. You will use this space similar to the way a painter creates their paintings, but instead of drawing you will drag and drop elements to create a picture.

Adding Take a Selfie to your blipp

1. Drag the “Take a Selfie” widget to the canvas.
2. When selected the editing menu will appear on the right hand side of the screen.
3. Under settings, select “Add Image.”
4. Upload a transparent .png from your files. You can use this action for any asset you upload and add to the canvas (Maximum: 2000px)
5. Under settings select the orientation of the transparent png, portrait or landscape.
6. Here you can also select the location from top, middle or bottom.
7. To see your work, select the preview button.

Adding a background image to Take A Selfie 

1. Select the “Take a Selfie” widget.
2. When selected the editing menu will appear on the right hand side of the screen.
   
3. Select "add Background Image" and upload your desired image. 

Test using take a selfie

1. After selecting preview in blippbuilder, open the Blippar app on your phone and enter the blipp code under settings.
2. Blipp the trigger image in the preview section in blippbuilder.  
3. Click on the “Take a Selfie” widget.

Note: The text on this widget can be changed in blippbuilder during blipp creation.

1. The transparent .png will load and the front facing camera will open.
2. Users can take a selfie or change the camera direction.
3. After a photo is taken users can download it to their image gallery or share it on social media, over text message or any other sharing method.

Troubleshooting

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