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Breeze Booth for iPad 3.4.1 – AI image generation

Breeze Booth for iPad 3.4.1. was released today, linking AI image generation services to the power of Breeze Booth for iPad’s photo booth app.

To create AI  images of your guests use Breeze Booth for iPad’s new post processing feature with a third party AI generation service*

This release also includes an easy to use survey builder.

Create AI effects

Booth 3.4.1’s new  post processing option supports third party image processing, making it possible to create, print and share AI generated images of guests at events.

*Third party services adding AI effects to images

We Fly Kites and Printaparty are currently building AI Image generation services designed to integrate with Breeze Booth for iPad.

Steve Bliesner and Faisal Achmad have kindly let me try pre-release versions of both. See the results below:

Print containing photo converted to Manga
I love this  Manga cartoon created in Breeze Booth for iPad using Printaparty.sg ‘s AI Generation service
Photo before AI Manga effect added
Original photo

Steve’s AI Image generation demo wowed visitors to the Breeze stand at Photo Booth Expo Europe last month.

Ageing effect courtesy of We Fly Kites The event included a survey to let users choose how much to age themselves.

Advanced Breeze users can build their own  interface to third party AI services such as Stability AI.

Breeze Booth for iPad screenshot
Enabling post processing and selecting the AI generation service URL (Breeze Booth for iPad 3.4.1)

New Breeze Booth for iPad Survey Builder

Booth’s new survey builder is a fast and simple way to build custom surveys. The following screenshots show how to build a survey with an age gate, autoemail and choice of cartoon style:

The survey builder can include check boxes, radio buttons and text, optional or mandatory fields. To automatically email my photo select autoemail:

Defining the survey screen (Breeze Booth for iPad 3.4.1).

Tip: Choose meaningful field names for your surveys.

Survey tokens

Special survey tokens are created which can be used in many ways, including

  • separating output into different folders
  • print captions
  • using radio buttons to offer a choice of effect (here Manga, Pop or basic cartoon) by selecting different post processing URLs
Touch screen settings for the same survey (Breeze Booth for iPad 3.4.1)
The same survey in action.

 AI Yearbook, Cartoon Booth and Time Machine

Faisal has kindly allowed me to share these videos of Breeze Booth for iPad/Printaparty AI events:

New to Booth for iPad?

Try Breeze for iPad completely free of charge. The demonstration and sample events are free to use as well.

You will find help to get you started, fabulous free events and tutorials here

There’s also a detailed online manual.

Trial version/While logged out: There’s no need to use a subscription while you test Breeze for iPad or work on new events. Watermarks are added after the first 10 images each day.

Free upgrades: included with all subscriptions.

Download Breeze Booth for iPad

Existing user?

There’s no charge to upgrade to Booth 3.4.1 and the latest release of the companion apps

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AI Image generation with Breeze / PBX London 2023 Round Up

The first European Photo Booth Expo (PBX) in London was a great success last week, with attendees flying in from from Australia, Canada, the USA, and South America, across Europe and the UK.

The hot topic at the show was undoubtedly integrating AI image generation with photo booths.

AI Image generation with Breeze

The next release of Breeze Booth for iPad includes the ability to post process photos using AI or PhotoShop Droplets using third party services such as Stability AI.

Similar AI Image processing can already be applied using post processing and third party processing in DSLR Remote Pro.

  • Breeze Booth AI Image processing support includes both text to image and image to image processing.
  • Text to Image AI allows the background to be switched in repsonse to text chosen in advance or entered during survey questions.
  • Image to Image AI changes photos in response to a text prompt. Again text can be chosen in advance or entered during survey questions.
Visitors waiting at the Breeze stand Photo Booth Expo London 2023 tradeshow
Visitors queuing to see the Breeze demos at the tradeshow on Monday afternoon (Image courtesy of Photo Booth Expo).

There was frequent laughter as guests saw themselves age in Steve’s AI demo.

Aged image of woman's face on retro TV screen from AI Photo Booth with Ageing effect (Breeze Booth for iPad )

Audio Booth Integration

Steve’s integration of a phone for audio and video recordings with Breeze Booth for iPad was also a huge hit at the Breeze stand.

Guests picked up the handset to record an audio or video message for their mother, or took a selfie. Recordings/photos were emailed directly to Mum.

Use the same concept at weddings to record messages for bride and groom.

Breeze Booth for iPad linked to At The Beep retro phone to record audio and video recordings for Mum

Keynote Talks

Steve Bliesner, Nicholas Rhodes and Alan Berg were amonth the Keynote speakers on Monday and Tuesday afternoons.

Nicholas Rhodes (thought provoking keynote talk A New Era with A.I. Photo Booths

Master Class

Steve also demonstrated how to create Football Player cards using Breeze Booth for iPad in the Breeze Master Class on Monday afternoon.

Demos

Once again Steve came up with amazing demos and an attention grabbing backdrop for the Breeze stand.

Thank you!

Thanks to all of you who visited the stand – it was a pleasure to meet every one of you. Special thanks to Steve Bliesner, Owen McCrink and  Jürgen Mayr for their tireless hard work, and to Peter Bodingbauer for the amazing chocolate cake.

Finally our thanks to Peter Holding, Steven Honeyball and Rob Savickis for organising the first Photo Booth Expo Europe.

Organisers of Photo Booth Expo at the Entrance Doors
Peter, Rob and Steven at the Expo Entrance

 

Chris Breeze and Sue Breeze smiling at the end of Photo Booth Expo London 2023
Chris & Sue exhausted but happy at the end of the Trade Show ( Photo by Peter Bodingbauer using Breeze Booth for iPad’s Photographer mode)

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Breeze Master Class at PBX – Last chance to book

There are still a few places left at the Breeze Master Class next Monday at Photo Booth Expo (PBX) Europe.

Breeze Master Class Monday 18th September at 16:00

Steve Bliesner  will offer  a deep dive into some of the newest features from Breeze, with practical examples of using the powerful AI background removal tools, image blending modes and how to bring it all together with a custom user interface.

Book your place on Monday 18th September at 4pm here

Keynote presentation

Steve will also give a   Keynote presentation My rules for running a successful event business on Tuesday morning at 8.30am. 

Steve Bliesner: My rules for running a successful event business

Tuesday morning  08:30

Keep things simple. Be early, but not too early (and definitely dont be late). Make friends. Look out for each other. Learn your tools and RTFM. Experience first. Money second. The end.

Who’s Steve?

Breeze Ambassador Steve Bliesner is the founder and Creative Director of Australian based companies: The Photo Booth Guys and At the Beep. With nearly 15 years experience in the Photo Booth, and Events Industry, and regarded as an “out of the box” thinker…  Steve is probably now considered to be a Dinosaur, who’s probably run out of fresh ideas. But this old T-Rex somehow managed to have some of his best years in business through-out the pandemic, and might just have something worth listening to.

Check out Steve’s Glamazon activation

Tradeshow

Chris, Sue and Steve also look forward to welcoming you to the Breeze PBX trade show stand on Monday and Tuesday afternoons.  The Breeze  stand is right at the entrance.

More about PBX Europe 2023

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Quick Tips – Print Preview Issues

A couple of quick tips for beginners using the Print Preview screen in their booth.

This post has been written for Breeze Booth (DSLR+Windows) aka DSLR Remote Pro, but also applies to Webcam Photobooth.

  • New users sometimes ask why the print preview shows a photo or strip in the wrong orientation, while the printed output is fine.
  • Another issue which occurs with the print preview is that the print covers all or part of the buttons.

Print Preview in wrong rotation

This is most often seen with DNP 4×6 media after running the Photobooth Setup Wizard:

Breeze DSLR Remote Pro Print Preview screenshot with double strip in wrong rotation
Breeze Print Preview double strip before fixing (Breeze DSLR Remote Pro)
Breeze DSLR Remote Pro Print Preview screenshot showing incorrect rotation
Breeze Print Preview single photo before fixing (Breeze DSLR Remote Pro)

Why does this happen?

DNP printers swap portrait and landcape when you print 4×6 inch (100 x 150 mm) prints.

This has no effect on the physical prints, but makes Print Preview screens look strange.

How to fix:

  1. Open the Print Layout Editor
  2. Click on Printer Setup
  3. Swap Orientation from Portrait to Landscape ( or Landscape to Portrait)
  4. Click on Preset Layouts
  5. Select your chosen layout – here Double Strip of 4
  6. Check Print Layout
  7. Check Print Preview

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The next most common issue reported for in print previews is that the print partly covers the buttons.

Print Preview image overlaps the touchscreen buttons

Breeze DSLR Remote Pro Print Preview screenshot with print partly covering buttons
Breeze DSLR Remote Pro Print Preview screenshot with print partly covering buttons

This problem usually happens when buttons are placed at the bottom of the screen and the print is in portrait (vertical).

How to fix:

Open the touchscreen actions window for confirm_printing screen and reduce the size of the print preview image:

Adjusting the print preview images in the Touchscreen actions window

If you are new to touchscreen actions, read the tutorial here

Open confirm_printing.jpg in touchscreen actions, and click on Print preview area

Drag and drop the Print Preview area until the buttons are no longer hidden:

Touchscreen action print area no longer covers buttons

Save your changes as you leave the touchscreen actions window,  and run a session to check everything works as expected.

Remember to close DSLR Remote Pro when you finish, to save your changes.

 

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Breeze Booth for iPad 3.4 Quick Guide

These notes are intended as a quick guide to the latest release for existing Booth (iPad+iPhone) users.

For more detailed explanations please see the online manual

What’s in this release?

Breeze Booth (iPad+iPhone) 3.4

  • extends Photographer Mode introduced in v3.3
  • adds time limited photo booth sessions
  • adds a privacy option to encrypt guest email addresses and cell phone numbers.
  • adds actions to delete unwanted photos from the gallery
  • adds support for the Canon EOS R6 Mark II, Canon EOS R8, Canon EOS R50 and Canon EOS R100
  • includes EXIF data when saving individual photos from external cameras
  • processed photos can be placed within a larger canvas

Photographer Mode/Tethered Shooting

Shoot tethered without waiting for photos to download. Switch between landscape and portrait on the fly. Two free Roaming events optimised for mirrorless and DSLR cameras.

Faster Shooting

Run tethered shooting as before. Chris has added a buffer so there is no need to wait for photos to download before taking the next shot.

Switching between landscape and portrait

Photos can be taken in either landscape or portrait orientation and a different print layout can be used for each. Simply rotate the camera to frame photos vertically  or horizontally – you don’t need to adjust the app settings.

To enable the automatic selection of the print layout you need to set the event up correctly in the Event Editor:

In the Event Editor

  • use one of the Roaming events below or create your own event with profiles for both landscape and portrait orientations
  • print layouts in the landscape profile should be in landscape orientation
  • print layouts in the portrait profile should be in portrait orientation
Download Roaming Events to the app using the QR code. Two events are downladed. Roaming ( Mirrorless) is designed for Canon’s mirrorless cameras. Roaming ( DSLR) is for Canon DSLR cameras. Live view is switched off, enabling the photographer to use the camera’s view finder.

To adapt these events to meet your requirements download this zip file to your PC and import the events into the Event Editor.

In the App

  • Connect your camera
  • Enable the orientation lock on the iPad/iPhone.
  • When photos are printed the app uses the orientation information stored in the EXIF shooting data to determine whether it was taken  in landscape or portrait.
  • Photos taken in landscape use the print layout from the landscape profile.
  • Photos taken in portrait use the print layout from the portrait profile.

Time limited sessions

Switch on Time Limited sessions and set start and end times in the App Settings.

Toggle Timed sessions on and off on the App settings screen. Select the start and end times and add a message for the Before opening screen if desired (Breeze Botoh for iPad 3.4)

Custom screen names: before_session.jpg, before_session.gif, before_session.mov/mp4, before_session.png; after_session.jpg, after_session.gif, after_session.mov/mp4, after_session.png

Hidden exit buttons

The Event Creator will automatically include before_session.jpg and after_session.jpg screens in the Screen folder. Both screens have a hidden exit in the top right corner of the screen.

When adapting existing Breeze Booth designs, add  before_session.jpg and after_session.jpg screens to the Screens folder and give these  exit actions. Exit actions are essential – without them you cannot exit the event outside booth opening hours. The exit action is called exitFromBeforeAfterSession.

Events running past midnight

End time can be before the start time for events running past midnight, eg  start time 21:00 and end time 01:00. (This only works when end time is before 8:00.)

Optional Booth opening message

Text including opening and closing times can be added to the before_session.jpg screen using the Msg field*

Messages can be made up of more than one line of text by adding \n to start a new line. The following tokens can be used:

{startTime} – this is replaced with the start time e.g. 19:00
{endTime} – this is replaced with the end time e.g. 22:30
{timeToStart} – this is replaced with the time until the photo booth opens e.g. 2:34:52

*before_session.jpg and after_session.jpg screens built by the Event Creator include text.  If you add your own message, you also need to replace  before_session.jpg and after_session.jpg in the Event Editor.

Touch screen actions

Remember to include a hidden exit touchscreen action so that you can exit the event outside opening hours.

You can also add actions to open early and add an extra 10 minutes.

These actions can all be password protected using the standard Exit Password.

Enhanced Privacy of personal data

For additional privacy select Encrypt email addresses and phone numbers for privacy. This will encrypt email addresses and phone numbers when they are stored in the XML email and text files and the journal files so that they can’t be read.

Encrypted addresses and phone numbers are decrypted when sending the email or text, but are always encrypted when saved to file.

There is no option to display the decrypted email address or phone number in the Breeze Booth for iPad app, Event Editor or Breeze Hub’s reporting tools.

Encrypting email address and cell phone numbers for enhanced privacy (Breeze Booth for iPad 3.4)

Removing  unwanted photos from the gallery

New touchscreen actions galleryDelete and galleryDeletePermanently allow unwanted or inappropriate images to be removed from the gallery sharing screen gallery_share.png. These options can be protected using a password if required. To do this set the exit password in the iPad’s App Settings screen.

  • galleryDelete does not delete any files, instead it marks the image as deleted
  • galleryDeletePermanently deletes the photo booth summary file and all associated photos, GIFs and MP4 files

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Breeze Booth for iPad 3.4 released

Breeze Booth (iPad+iPhone) 3.4 was released today.

This release updates the tethered shooting support introduced in the last release, and adds time limited photo booth sessions. A new privacy option encrypts guest email addresses and cell phone numbers. We have also added the ability to delete unwanted photos from the gallery.

Photographer Mode/Tethered shooting

Thank you for the enthusiastic feedback for tethered shooting, introduced earlier this year.

Upgrade to Booth 3.4 to shoot faster, switch freely between landscape and portrait, and save EXIF data with the photos.

Tether your camera to Breeze Booth (iPad+iPhone)

Fast shooting rate

There’s no wait for photos to download before taking the next photo

Switch between landscape and portrait

Switch freely between shooting in landscape and portrait. Booth automatically applies appropriate overlay and background to landscape and portrait oriented prints. Learn more

EXIF Shooting Data

EXIF shooting data is  saved with individual photos when external cameras are used.

Timed Sessions

Limit the booth to timed sessions

  • Set start and end times for an event
  • Display custom Before Session and After Session screens or videos outside opening hours
  • Password protected Early Start
  • Password Protected Extra Time

Privacy Option

For additional privacy email addresses and phone numbers can be encrypted when they are stored so that they can’t be read.

Improved support for Processed Photos

Processed photos can now be placed within a larger canvas to allow space for borders etc.

Quick guides to the new features

Learn more about the new features here

What cameras can I use?

Breeze Booth (iPad+iPhone) supports iPad and iPhone front and rear facing integral cameras. Alternatively choose from  a huge range of Canon camera models.

At the time of writing (June 2023) we believe the Canon EOS R100, R10, M50 Mk II and M50 are good choices. These are all compact models with Canon’s excellent dual pixel AF with face detect in live view.

Booth supports: Canon EOS R100, R50, R10, R8, R7, R6 Mark II, R6, R5, R3, RP, M50 Mk II, M50, M200, M6 Mark II. Most Canon DSLRs. Canon PowerShot SX70 HS, G5 X Mark II, G7 X Mark III.

Images courtesy of Steve Bliesner and Chris Breeze

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Using the DSLR Remote Pro Scrapbook Effect

The latest release of Breeze Booth (DSLR+Windows) aka DSLR Remote Pro 3.19 introduces a scrapbook or outline effect.

We have released a YouTube video tutorial explaining how to add this effect to your designs.

Try for yourself

Download: free fully functional 14 day trial *

Free upgrades: for one year from the date of purchase

Platforms Supported: Windows 11 and Windows 10

Download Breeze DSLR Remote Pro 3.19

Have a great week.

Sue

 

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Breeze DSLR Remote Pro 3.19: Time limited events, Outline mode, Print Compositing and Surveys

Breeze Booth (DSLR+Windows) aka DSLR Remote Pro 3.19 was released today, bringing users support for two new cameras, an easy to use Survey Generator, Outline/Sticker Mode, Print Compositing and Time Limited events

Included in this release

  • Booth opens at… and closes at.. screens for time limited events
  • Outline/Scrapbook feature
  • Simple Survey Generator
  • Print Compositing
  • Support for new Canon cameras EOS R8 and EOS R50.

Time limited events

  • Set start and end times for a photo booth session and the booth will only operate between these times.
  • Display custom screens before and after the event.
  • Password protected exit buttons can override these settings

Learn more

Outline/Sticker mode

Grab attention with DSLR Remote Pro’s new scrapbook style Outline effect for photos and slideshow GIFs. Guest love them.

Breeze Booth outlines come in any color you choose, and work with both greenscreen and AI background removal.

Simple Survey Generator

  • Fast and simple way to create guest surveys.
  • Up to 10 screens to collect data from guests before starting the session.
  • Email addresses collected in a survey can be used to automatically share images from the session.
  • Use data collected in print captions, emails, directory and file names as well as reports
  • Surveys generated can be adapted for more complex layouts
Survey screen created by new survey generator in Breeze DSLR Remote Pro 3.19

Learn more

Print Compositing

No Photoshop required!

A whole new level of creative control.  Wide range of innovative photo effects ranging from transparency and blurring to filters and blend modes.

Repeated image with varied opacity

Learn more

Support for new cameras

DSLR Remote Pro adds suport for Canon’s new EOS R8 and EOS R50 cameras.

Canon EOS R8  camera (Image courtesy of Canon Europe)

Chris’s comments on the EOS R8 and EOS R50

The EOS R8 is a compact, high quality full frame camera with excellent autofocus which is capable of 180fps slow motion video. It’s less expensive and more compact than the Canon EOS R6 Mark II while offering similar autofocus and image quality.

The EOS R50 does not have a center contact on the hotshoe. To use this camera for a photo booth with external flash you need a Canon AD-E1 Multi-Function Shoe Adapter which fits into the hotshoe and provides a hotshoe with a center contact. Please note that this adds to the height of the camera: please ensure there is enough space in your photo booth housing for it to fit.

Try for yourself

Download: free fully functional14 day trial *

Free upgrades: for one year from the date of purchase

Platforms Supported: Windows 11 and Windows 10

Download Breeze DSLR Remote Pro 3.19

Images courtesy of Steve Bliesner and Chris Breeze

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Breeze Photographer Mode – Shoot tethered with instant sharing

Breeze Booth (iPad+iPhone)’s new Photographer Mode for tethered shooting is proving a huge hit with event photographers.

To find out how to use the app to shoot tethered, see the new tutorial here.

Sue

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