Downloader Pro 2.6 adds support for downloading directly from the Canon EOS RP, Canon EOS 250D/Rebel SL3 and Canon PowerShot SX70HS. This release adds support for Canon CR3 format raw files in the Adobe DNG converter plug-in and fixes an issue with registering for Windows AutoPlay when installing Downloader Pro.
Downloader Pro minimises the time spent downloading and organising images on your PC, and is often partnered with BreezeBrowser Pro.
Downloader Pro runs on PCs running Windows 10, 8 or 7, and will run as a free trial for up to 30 days.
Download, Try, Buy
You can find details, download and purchase links on the Breeze website here
This release is a free upgrade for all registered users who purchased a license within the last 18 months. Users with older licenses need to buy an upgrade license to use this release.
Slideshow GIF with the new top/bottom mirror effect
Save logos with Photo Booth Print Layouts
Logos provide a quick and easy way to add graphics to prints without using an image editor such as Photoshop.
DSLR Remote Pro 3.12 introduced the ability to add up to five JPEG and/or PNG logos to your prints. Many of you want to save these logos with your photo booth print layouts, so we have added this feature to v3.13.
Add up to 5 logos to each print and export them with the Print Layout (Breeze DSLR Remote Pro 3.13)
Total number of prints counter
Keeps count of the number of prints made (Breeze DSLR Remote Pro 3.13)
The new Total number of prints counter is shared with other Breeze apps running on the PC such as Kiosk, and incremented each time any of these apps prints. Learn more
Note to advanced users: The token for this counter {eventPrintTotal} can be used in filenames, caption text in print layouts and message text.
Try DSLR Remote Pro 3.13 for yourself
DSLR Remote Pro 3.13 is a free upgrade for all registered users who purchased DSLR Remote Pro after 14th April 2018. Customers with older licenses need to buy an upgrade license to use this release.
Pop Art and mirror effects are a doddle in DSLR Remote Pro. Set up your booth as usual, copy PhotoboothcreativeFilter.dll into your PhotoboothImages folder, then select the filter you want to use. That’s it!
DSLR Remote Pro 3.13 ships with ten creative filters and six Instagram style filters as standard. This post explains how to use mirror, Pop Art and other filters in still photos, slideshow and boomerang (burst) GIFs.
Copy PhotoboothcreativeFilter.dll into your PhotoboothImages folder
Copy PhotoboothcreativeFilter.dll from your installation folder (usually C:\Program Files (x86)\BreezeSys\DSLR Remote Pro) into your PhotoboothImages folder
Copying PhotoboothcreativeFilter.dll from C:\Program Files (x86)\BreezeSys\DSLR Remote Pro
Just paste PhotoboothcreativeFilter.dll into your PhotoboothImages folder
Connect your camera and choose a filter
Start the booth and DSLR Remote Pro will display the default filter (color negative).
Color negative filter (Breeze DSLR Remote Pro 3.13)
Type Ctrl+Shift+C to display the setup page and choose one of the mirror filters:
Drop down list of creative filters. DSLR Remote Pro 3.13 introduces mirroring and an ‘off’ setting.
Selecting one of the creative filters in DSLR Remote Pro
You are away! Here are a few examples of mirroring, Pop Art and Posterized effects:
Left/right mirroring
Left/right mirroring GIF in DSLR Remote Pro (new in Breeze DSLR Remote Pro 3.13)
Top/bottom mirroring
Square images on a square print with top/bottom mirroring (new in Breeze DSLR Remote Pro 3.13)
Two by two mosaic
Create multiple reflections with the two by two mosaic filter (DSLR Remote Pro 3.13)
Pop Art
Breeze gives total control over Pop Art effect colors. This print layout fills a square 6 x 6 print with 4 square images
Pop art effect slideshow GIF (Breeze DSLR Remote Pro 3.13)
Posterize
Posterize effect in slideshow GIF (Breeze DSLR Remote Pro)
Switch between filters or turn them off
Type Ctrl+Shift+C on the Ready screen to switch to a different filter or turn them off completely.
Set up filters for boomerang GIFs in exactly the same way as for still photos/slideshow GIFs. Guests see the effect of each filter as they pose, not just on their prints and GIFs:
Creative filters work with both photos and boomerang GIFs
Save the current filter for future use
The current filter is automatically saved* for the Photobooth Images folder you are using. When you next load this Photobooth Images folder into DSLR Remote Pro, it will automatically run the same filter.
*Filter settings are saved in the program registry for each Photobooth Images folder.
Where the outputs are stored
Screenshot of subfolders containing outputs from the booth
DSLR Remote Pro gives you a lot of control over where your images are stored. This can be really useful when you want to use a watch folder to share, display or upload images from the booth. This post explains where DSLR Remote Pro usually places different types of images.
Mirroring filters in portrait
If you shoot in portrait the top/bottom and left/right filters are swapped. The two by two mosaic works but ‘swap top halves’ is not designed for portrait orientation.
DSLR Remote Pro 3.13 is a free upgrade for all registered users who purchased DSLR Remote Pro after 14th April 2018. Customers with older licenses need to buy an upgrade license to use this release.
Mirror booths usually do not display the camera’s live view because guests see themselves pose in the mirror.
Breeze DSLR Remote Pro’s support for bespoke interfaces and custom menus makes it a great choice for magic mirrors and photo booths. You can hide the live view whether you are offering still photos, GIFs, slow mo or video booth:
Fusion Booth running DSLR Remote Pro with choice of boomerang GIF, slow motion or photos (Image courtesy of Incredible Booth)
To capture still photos without displaying the live view simply switch it off in Advanced Settings.
Live view unchecked to hide the live view when capturing still images (Breeze DSLR Remote Pro 3.12)
This is great when you want to make slideshow GIFs from a set of still photos.
Breeze boomerang GIFs are captured from the camera’s live view, so when live view is switched off you cannot shoot boomerang GIFs.
Hide the live view
Mirror booth users and others who want to shoot boomerang GIFs without showing the live view need to hide it. There is a simple trick to this – move the live view so that it is no longer displayed on screen. If your screen is 1080 x 1920 pixels, offset the live view by more than this (In this example I have offset by 2000 pixels in both directions):
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Guests will still see the countdown but not the live view. Magic!
Breeze DSLR Remote Pro powers photo booths and mirror booths worldwide. Licenses cost just US $275* each and include one year’s free upgrades. This post shows screenshots from Breeze DSLR Remote Pro 3.12
This Windows based App runs as a fully functional trial for up to 14 days supporting most Canon DSLR cameras and Canon’s mirrorless M50.
I’m pleased to be able to say that we released Breeze Booth 1.0.1 today, adding iPhone support and scheduled updates for fixed installations to our innovative iPad App.
Breeze Booth supports all iPads and iPhones running iOS 12.1, and can be downloaded from the App Store here
New in Breeze Booth 1.0.1
Support for Apple iPhones
Scheduled syncing (updating) events and purging old images for fixed installations
Custom background images for start screen can be different when device is signed in and out
Switch between simple and advanced display options on settings screen
Simpler initial download of sample events
Simpler switching between events
Fixed issue with AirPrint
Fixed issue with text number verification
Smaller roving devices
Breeze Booth is ideal for the growing roving market, and offers new opportunities for smaller, light weight devices powered by iPhones and the new iPad Mini 5. Share and print images using Breeze Hub from both iPhones and iPads. Create bespoke interfaces for small and large screens with the powerful Event Editor.
How much does it cost?
Breeze Booth is available at an introductory price of just $49/month or $440/year for each device. To buy subscriptions open a Breeze Booth account.
Prices exclude any tax due
I’ve just bought a license! How do I upgrade?
Thanks for being an early adopter. Breeze Booth 1.0.1 is a free upgrade – just upgrade your copies of the App from the App Store.
You will often need to add or edit the files in your PhotoboothImages folder when you customize the screens in your booth or mirror. Most of you know that you must name the files you add correctly so that DSLR Remote Pro and other Breeze programs can find them. If you are sure the filename is right but the program doesn’t seem to see it, check the filename extension.
It is very easy to name a file 1.jpg.jpg by mistake, and Windows makes this hard to spot, because Windows File explorer doesn’t show the extension (.jpg or .avi etc) unless you tell it to.
In this post I will show you how to spot errors more easily:
Always display file name extensions
The first example shows an Icons view of the images for a basic booth set up with the Wizard. I find this visual overview very helpful. If you look at the filenames (highlighted in red) you will see that the .jpg file name extensions are missing:
Typical icon view of PhotoboothImages folder. Windows has hidden the file extensions
The View tab shows you that the File name extensions box is not checked:
Checking this box will reveal the .jpg extensions:
When File name extensions is checked, the .jpg etc extensions are shown
Fascinating – but why does this matter?
If you accidentally name the a file 1.jpg.jpg instead of just 1.jpg it will be very clear when you look at this window:
Here the first image has accidentally been named 1.jpg.jpg
If you cannot see these file extensions this is much easier to miss:
1.jpg.jpg is labelled 1.jpg – very easy to miss!
If you look at the Details view of the same folder this is what you will see:
Again 1.jpg.jpg is labelled 1.jpgWhen you force Windows to show the file extension my mistake jumps out
Thank you for taking the time to read this. Do share the post with others who may find it useful.
Breeze Booth for iPad is a powerful photo booth app designed with flexibility, redundancy and creativity in mind.
Breeze Booth features the most powerful and flexible interface designer of any iPad app in the industry. Create graphically stunning designs, complex multi-menu navigations, engaging data surveys and customised keyboards. Quickly deploy them to a fleet of iPads using trusted cloud services (Dropbox, iCloud etc) or via your own private and secure web servers.
Make it yours. Make it your clients. Breeze Booth can be re-skinned to make it look like your very own photo booth software. All from just US $49/month or US $440/year.
Greetings everyone! My name is Peyton Vincent with CEG Interactive, an award-winning company that specializes in photo booth rental in San Diego as well as specialty photo activations nationwide. I first started using Breeze Systems software in 2007 with our very first portable photo booth. Back in those days, we were renting photo booths for weddings and parties but as we expanded our offerings, our clientbase grew to include concert tours, conventions, and sporting events nationwide.
While the majority of our jobs have relied on DSLR Remote Pro over the years, we found our niche by being photo booth technologists and innovators that wanted to constantly find new ways to re-invent the photo booth. We also regularly use Hotfolder Prints, Breeze Viewer, Webcam Photo Booth, Breeze Kiosk, and last but not least, Breeze Multi-Camera.
I have been invited by Chris and Sue to write some helpful features that are focused mostly around that last one which goes by a bunch of different names. See how many you recognize!
Other than the obvious, a multi-camera array photo booth consists of a system of interconnected cameras that are usually defined as follows:
Rigidly-attached to a curved structure that keeps them from shifting
Aimed at a central point or axis
Evenly-spaced so that the animation effect shifts between the cameras at a constant speed
DSLR cameras and lenses are of the same make/model/focal length. Breeze Multi-Camera is designed to tether exclusively with Canon DSLRs. However, with some custom work, it’s probably possible to use the animator program with image file sets captured by cameras of a different make.
Each camera is fired in either a “chase” where there’s a specified delay between each angle which creates a “virtual dolly” and/or slow motion bullet time effect OR they are all fired at the exact same instant to create a true “time freeze” effect.
I’m a visual guy (which is probably why I’m a photo booth nerd instead of a writer) so lets move on to the fun stuff…photo examples! I will end this first article with a multi-camera comparison guide that shows you how the number of cameras, type of backdrop, triggering method, etc can create a wide variety of different effects.
2 Camera “3D Photo Booth”
Event guests showing off their stylish 3D glasses and 3D photo prints!Full color traditional photo prints as well as anaglyphic prints that can be viewed in 3D with the red/blue 3D glasses.
6 Camera Array Photo Booth
6 camera array with printed 10×10 tension fabric backdrop6 camera photo booth with a 10×14 printed backdrop
7 Camera – Super Wide Angle
6 camera array using Canon EF-S 10-18mm Super Wide Angle Lenses. This was a test shot and we ended up fine tuning calibration before the event began.
6 Camera – Green Screen Array
12 Camera Array – 3D Light Painting
12 Camera Array
We used two 9×9 black sequin backdrops for this shoot.
12 Camera Array – Green Screen
3D green screen confetti plus hand-tossed white confetti!
12 Camera Array – Creative Set
12 Camera Array – Green Screen with 3D artwork
18 Camera Array – 180 Photo Booth
18 Camera Array – Time Delay Trigger “Virtual Dolly” Effect
Please stay tuned for our next feature were we cover more topics like hardware component selection, software settings, system design, and more! In the meantime, check out our website more information about the multi-camera photo booth services that we offer to our customers at CEG Interactive.
I have reserved places for the folks on the iPad waiting list for this class – please drop me an email and confirm whether you would like to take them up.
Chris and Steve are running two Breeze Master Classes at Photo Booth Expo this year – Introducing Breeze Booth for iPad, and Interface design for DSLR Remote Pro and Multi-Camera. Tickets are free to PBX Key Pass holders. The original classes have been fully booked for some time.
Both will also give Keynote presentations at PBX. Steve will open on Sunday at 12 with What I’ve Learned From Doing 1000 Events A Year. Chris will cover Choosing the Right Camera for your Booth on Tuesday at 9am. You don’t need to book for Keynote presentations, which are open to all PBX Key Pass holders.
Introducing Breeze Booth for iPad
Monday 25th February 11-12.30 & 3-4.30 Steve Bliesner & Chris Breeze
Get the low down on the latest Breeze App from Steve Bliesner (Breeze Brand Ambassador and Photo Booth Guys) and Chris Breeze (Breeze founder and developer).
Book your place at Introducing Breeze Booth for iPad (The password is PBX)
If you can no longer use your ticket, please email sales@breezesys.com so that I can give it to someone else. Thank you.
As most of you know, Chris is founder and developer in chief at Breeze. Steve Bliesner is our Breeze Brand Ambassador as well as running the Photo Booth Guys and Wilkes Photobooth. Steve’s Breeze class at BoothCon 2019 was standing room only; we expect both the PBX classes to be packed.
This is the fifth Year of Photo Booth Expo, the world’s largest Photo Booth Show. It’s a great chance to catch up with you all as well as showing the latest Breeze offerings at our booth. See you soon.
