[Coldsaturn]

You might have already played around Glint photobooth or maybe this is your first time. Either way, there's a whole world to be uncovered with it, so get ready.

The basics: 

When you are in glint, get familiar with the basic buttons you find on screen. I won't go into too much detail of the obvious ones because you can simply tap on them and find out on your own, and instead I will point out a few things that might be more obscure or people might ignore at the start.

1) Lighting button (visible when you are on the Background tab from the bottom of the page), there's a PRO toggle that you might think is paywalled. It's not. The PRO sliders are your friends.
2) From the buttons on the right, you can decide to rotate the camera or rotate and move the subjects. This will be extremely useful because your strategy will be using clipping between poses to create the final effect you want.
3) From the bottom of the page, you can access individual poses for you and your LI. These will consist of generic poses from the cafe, idle poses, etc. Your strategy will be using these in whatever combo to create the final effect you want. To get creative, most of the time you will ignore the DUO poses, or use only half of a single duo pose while the other subject plays another one.
4) Feel the orb, love the orb. From the Gaze button on the left, you can decide where the subject is looking. Using the orb allows you to freely control where they turn their head and eyes.

The templates:

Now we get into the real interesting stuff. You can already kinda experiment with what templates are by accessing the related tab at the bottom of the page. It will show you a slide show of possible photos you can create, and the interesting part is that each one of them will be like 2/5, 1/4, 5/6 etc. If you tap on one, it will tell you how many parts you have and are missing to complete the template. We're talking about clothes (arbitrary), backgrounds (arbitrary), poses (necessary), etc. Remember this because it will be important.

Learning how to work with templates requires time, what if you just want to take a pretty picture and slowly learn by studying what others do? Well, qr codes will come in handy here. You can export and import templates, which will save your characters' positions, poses, clothes+accessories, lighting, sfx etc.
When you're in the template tab, if you look on the left right above the template window, you'll see two very important buttons: Share, and Import template. Share will generate a qr code that you can give other players so they can use your template, whereas import does just that. If you want to do that you'll have two options: scan with your camera (if you're on phone or ipad), or access the gallery so you can feed the game the picture with the qr code on it and it will do the job on its own.

Which opens up a world of possibilities, because people really do things with templates lol. The sad thing is that sometimes you find a qr code but it's unusable because it's a screenshot of a screenshot of a cropped photo taken from a chinese forum, but often times you get functioning qr codes.

Reddit/tumblr/twitter has a lot of them, you can look for both the "template" and "qr" keywords. Pinterest is an even easier search.

Group Poses:

This deserves a section on its own because it's more complicated, but allows you to create a final photo with MC surrounded by our boys, or make a collage of just the boys next to each other. The problem is that you can only get 2 subjects in the photobooth, and 1 of the 2 has to be MC. So the solution is to force it through the creation of a collage.

You can find a guide on reddit to take a classic 3 subject photo, another one to get all the LIs next to each other. There are some very good guides on tiktok, but if you're not there I'd say to work with what's here for now. I can make it into a proper photo by photo tutorial if you want.

[ChicletPrime]

i am VERY excited to find more poses, suddenly.

the album images don't seem as crisp a quality as the rest of the game?

2) From the buttons on the left, you can decide to rotate the camera or rotate and move the subjects. This will be extremely useful because your strategy will be using clipping between poses to create the final effect you want.

what does this mean "clip between poses"?

[Coldsaturn]

I usually don't find much of a difference, definitely check if your settings are set to ultra, and in general emulators tend to have a worse graphic rendition than when played originally the device. Then of course cutscene quality is cutscene quality, you'll always get a bit less (especially with shadows and hair) in the rest of the game.

I incorrectly wrote "on the left" when those buttons are on the right. I fixed the original post.
Clipping as in the poses that are not originally created to work together will have the characters overlap with each other in parts or with their whole body. Usually this is a problem, but in this case it can be used to create the illusion of a hug, specific gestures etc.

For example:

1) Edit the fingers that are coming out of his chin and it will look like MC shoved her fingers in his mouth
2) The hand clipping into her hair makes it look like he's caressing her
3) Or like he's holding her hand
4) From the front and with sufficient zoom it would look like he's got his hand around her throat
5) Self-explanatory. There's a whole genre on these obviously lol

[ChicletPrime]

I watched the TikTok tutorial on how to scam the collage system for profit and more profit and that looks like a very achieveable thing that i never would have thought of myself. I would skip the in game way of doing it to be fair, and just grab the screenshots and merge them in a proper graphic program. if i have time this weekend, i'm going to play with that and see what monsters of design and hormones I can jam together!

i will need more poses, this could really become a thing.

[ChicletPrime]

okay, my first attempt at this DATE TWO GUYS AT ONCE deal. this was at once both harder than it looks and easier than it looks. i messed up a little on the posing but honestly, i'm impressed with myself. it's too bad that the lighting controls aren't three point for flood, fill and rim but hey! for a boyfriend app, this is pretty darned amazing!

for some reason, the collage option wouldn't give me a full picture, i had to move everything up and then jig it a little in order for any of the bottom part to show at all. like, my original pictures are full figure (hair to shoes) but i was only able to get about 66% of it to show in the collage? not sure what critical step i'm missing.

[Coldsaturn]

I tried as well from the game itself using the tiktok guide, and yeah, it can get more or less complicated based on the colors, the shadows etc. It didn't turn out perfect, but it does the job I guess
(also holy shit sylus is huge)

[ChicletPrime]

TO DO: get more poses
TO DO: screw around with multiple lighting options, try merging in a real program to see what's achievable
TO DO: i saw ones where all five boys were there, figure that out
TO DO: figure out how to make Sylus wrap his fingers around my throat, that sounds awesome. may need the 'moar poses' though for a better grip option

[Coldsaturn]

I come with more tips and tricks!
In glint, when you go into styling MC (not just the clothes, the button that sends you to the whole customization menu for hair-accessories-makeup) on the top-left side of the screen you'll see several buttons in a vertical line, the last of which is the cloud symbol. I've always thought it uploaded something to the cloud and therefore wasn't relevant to my interest, but it's actually so good! When you tap on the cloud you'll get a popup window asking you to basically save your current MC template (hair+makeup) to one of the 3 slots available.
This means that you can put all the makeup to change your MC to suit a particular LI (or if you enjoy several versions of your MC), save its template, then change MC again for another LI and save that template too, and then once more.
There's also a "snapshot" option, which does the very same thing except it doesn't take your glint MC, but whatever styling you have used last in snapshot mode.
By using this you can get 4 different MC's templates saved, and you can change between them with just one click instead of having to go through the whole customization every time! Unfortunately this leaves out 1 LI if you use it this way, in my case I saved the MC for every LI except for Zayne because that's the one I use less, so that random time I want to see her I'll just customize her manually.

[Coldsaturn]

Adding pictures as reference.
Featuring XavierMC imported from snapshot mode.

[ChicletPrime]

i've been using that! actually, to be fair, what i've also been using is just keeping a template (with the QR code thingie on it) in my album for each of my girls as i work on them, and just pulling that in using the Import Template feature so it auto-sets all the hair and makeup stuff.

I keep my top three looks in that cloud list but i have all them as templates which also works just as well. i bought the outfit for GoA just so I could have that hair and i'll be trying that out tonight in the photobooth to see if i like it better than the previous long hair i was using for Zayne. the hair decoration might throw it off, but.. maybe not! i am actually pretty excited to see how it looks (i am such a dork for dress-up).