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Steve Bliesner will be running a free Breeze Masterclass Mastering Breeze for Ipad and Iphone on the Wednesday afternoon. Justin tells me that after just 2 days the class is 50% full, and he expects it to sell out soon.
Breeze Booth for iPad
Launched in March, Breeze Booth for iPad is a powerful photo booth app that lets you create GIFs, print digital images and design custom interfaces and experiences across multiple iOS devices. A perfect fit for fixed installations, roaming and stationary devices at events.
Custom interfaces and experiences
Design unique, custom interfaces/user experiences and quickly deploy them to a fleet of iPads using trusted cloud services (Dropbox, iCloud etc) or via your own private and secure web servers.
Set up events
Enjoy centralised set up of events, interfaces and image branding via a handy Windows-based app. Team up with Breeze Event Editor to professionally control and customise each area of your event.
Standalone capability and redundancy
If necessary your events can run offline, using your own private, secure sync and image sharing servers.
Display virtual prop text correctly both in live view and outputs
Improved AirPrint support
Support for iPadOS and iOS 13
Vary the props in your GIFs and photos
Use several digital props in one photo or GIF
You can find a tutorial outlining how to add virtual props here, and more details in the online manual.
Display virtual text correctly in both live view and outputs
Photo booth live view is usually mirrored so that guests see themselves as they would in a mirror. This causes problems with text in virtual props because the text is also mirrored. Breeze Booth 1.0.4 solves this problem.
Download the Windows based companion apps Event Editor and Hub here
Can I try this for free?
Yes! Download and try Breeze Booth from the App Store, and companion Apps Event Editor and Breeze Hub from our website. There’s no charge for this. You don’t even need to buy a license to create your own events. Just download and install Breeze Booth Event Editor 1.3.1 onto a Windows PC.
* Devices must run iPadOS, iOS 13 or iOS 12.
How to buy a Breeze Booth subscription
Breeze Booth subscriptions cost just US $49 /month or US $440 /per year. Open an account at breezebooth.net before you buy a subscription.
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Guests can rotate, expand and shrink the icons. You can restrict them to decorating part of the print, and even prevent them from defacing part of it if your clients are sensitive.
Webcam Photobooth 2.5 is a free upgrade for all registered users who purchased Webcam Photobooth after 18th September 2018. Customers with older licenses need to buy an upgrade license to use this release.
Guests choose from a selection of print frames on the signing/drawing screen (DSLR Remote Pro 3.14)
Social sharing totals
Display Sharing totals by selecting Preferences then Photo Booth Event Info ( DSLR Remote Pro 3.14)
DSLR Remote Pro now counts the total number of emails, texts and tweets sent from the booth.
You can reset these counters between events. More details
Print logos placed over the print overlay
You have been able to add logos to your printswithoutusing Photoshop® or other image editors since v3.12. Many of you asked us to place these logos over the print overlay – so we have made this change in v3.14
png and jpg logos added in the Print Layout Editor are now displayed in front of the print overlay (DSLR Remote Pro 3.14)
Support for new camera
DSLR Remote Pro supports almost all Canon DSLR cameras, plus the mirrorless M50 and EOS RP.
DSLR Remote Pro 3.14 adds support for the new EOS 250D/Rebel SL3/EOS 200D II/EOS Kiss X10.
*Enabling guest print frames
Enable signing and drawing on prints in the usual way. (Select Advanced Settings, then Output Options Settings. Check the box marked Sign or draw on photos before printing, and OK as you leave.)
Enabling the signing/drawing on prints screen. Guests can choose a frame as well as drawing on the print and adding custom stamps/emoji (DSLR Remote Pro 3.14)
Your frames should be png images the same size in pixels as the print layout. Place them in the PhotoBoothImages folder for the event. The name of each frame must start frame_ as below:
I also customised the icons to the left of this screen by placing my own images in the PhotoBoothImages folder. You can customise all these icons in the same way. Make this screen your own.
Try DSLR Remote Pro 3.14 for yourself
DSLR Remote Pro 3.14 is a free upgrade for all registered users who purchased DSLR Remote Pro after 24th July 2018. Customers with older licenses need to buy an upgrade license to use this release.
Breeze Booth 1.0.3 was released on July 17th. What’s new?
Send text messages and emails with multiple attachmentsdirectly from the App
New camera controls for contrast, vibrance and saturation
Simple touch screen controls let guests zoom in/out and make images brighter or darker.
Logo overlay for animated GIFs.
Simpler sharing straight from the App
Share photos and GIFs directly from the Breeze Booth App by text (uses Twilio) or email.
Corporate clients will love having total control over email content and appearance. Email addresses and cell phone numbers are also hidden from later guests.
Emails can include multiple attachments – so you can share any combination of animated GIF/MP4, individual images and the print layout.
Breeze Booth 1.0.3 email with both individual images and slideshow GIF attached (courtesy of Photo Booth Guys)
We’ve added three new slider controls for contrast, vibrance and saturation.
Breeze Booth 1.0.3 camera controls include Contrast, Saturation and Vibrance
Saturation adjusts the strength of the colors, and vibrance adjusts the saturation while keeping pleasing skin tones. Use contrast to change the difference between light and dark colors.
Guest controlled zoom and brightness
Let your guests adjust zoom and exposure compensation (brightness) while protecting the full range of camera controls. Breeze Booth 1.0.3 adds touch screen actions to the ready and menu screens for both exposure compensation and digital zoom settings .
New branding overlay for GIFs
Quikcly add a branding overlay to burst and slideshow GIFs by simply including the png overlay in the screens folder. Call the overlay gif_logo_overlay.png for burst GIFs and slideshow_gif_logo_overlay.png for slideshow GIFs.
How do I upgrade to this release?
Breeze Booth 1.0.3, Breeze Booth Event Editor v1.3 and Breeze Hub v1.0 were released on 17th July and are free upgrades for all Breeze Booth customers.
Download the Windows based companion apps Event Editor and Hub here
Can I try this for free?
Yes! Download and try Breeze Booth and companion Apps Event Editor and Breeze Hub free of charge. You don’t even need to buy a license to create your own events. Just download and install Breeze Booth Event Editor 1.3 onto a Windows PC.
* Devices must run iOS 12. At time of writing (July 2019) Breeze Booth supports iPad Pro 11 and iPhone X series and well as iPads with 4:3 screens and iPhones with 16:9 screens
How to buy a Breeze Booth subscription
Breeze Booth subscriptions cost just US $49 /month or US $440 /per year. Open an account at breezebooth.net before you buy a subscription.
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Breeze Booth features the most flexible and powerful interface designer of any iPad software on the market. Use the unique drag and drop Event Editor to create totally custom experiences, complex multi menu systems and engaging data surveys.
Note:Event Editor 1.3 was released on 17th July, and can be downloaded here
Sounds fantastic! Where do I start?
Start by running the new Event Creator in Event Editor 1.2. You can create custom working designs in just three simple steps.
This post runs through
downloading and installing Event Editor 1.2
creating events from scratch with the Creator
cloning existing events
transferring events to iOS 12 devices (iPads and iPhones)
Downloading and installing Event Editor 1.2
Create and edit events using Breeze Booth’s powerful Event Editor on any Windows PC running Windows 10, 8, or 7
When you download Event Editor 1.2, you will also download the latest release of Breeze Hub and the five sample events provided with Breeze Booth. That’s great for beginners.
If you already have event designs you want to keep, we suggest unchecking the box Copy sample events to your Documents folder so that no changes are made to your events folder.
Uncheck Copy sample events … if you don’t want your existing events folder changed
Create your first event
Open the Event Editor and select Create event..
Three step Event creator creates working events for any iPad or iPhone * using the new Chameleon theme designed by Wilkes Booth Co:
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Once the Creator has built a new event you can transfer it to your devices or use the Event Editor to make further changes.
Cloning existing events
You don’t need to build all your events from scratch. Save yourself time and effort by right clicking on an existing event to clone it:
You can also import complete Breeze Booth events created elsewhere using the Import Event… button.
Right click on any event to clone it (Breeze Booth Event Editor 1.2)
Cloning the sample events
You are welcome to use the sample events we provide with Breeze Booth at live events. To make these events your own, clone them and edit the cloned copy of the event. (You will then have an easy way to start again from the original event.)
Transferring your new event to your iPads and iPhones
Once your design is complete you need to transfer it to your iPads and iPhones.
This post scratches the surface of what you can achieve with Breeze Booth. Take a look at the Props and Filters and Surveyssample events for more ideas.
Go ahead – make it yours, make it your clients. Breeze Booth can be re-skinned to make it look like your very own photo booth software. Deploy remote and unattended iPads without fear of clients knowing what software you use. Learn more in the Breeze Booth help files
Summary
We have learned how to use the Creator to build events from scratch, and how to clone these and other events. I have linked to a separate post Syncing Events with Dropbox which demonstrates the simplest way to transfer your events to iPads or iPhones.
Is there a free trial?
You don’t need to buy a license to create events for Breeze Booth . Just download and install Breeze Booth Event Editor 1.2 onto a Windows PC. You can try out Breeze Booth and companion Apps Event Editor and Breeze Hub free of charge.
* Devices must run iOS 12. At time of writing (May 2019) Breeze Booth supports iPad Pro 11 and iPhone X series and well as iPads with 4:3 screens and iPhones with 16:9 screens
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There is a whole collection of goodies in the latest update to Breeze Booth & companion apps released today, including a new Event Creator, Bluetooth control of LEDs and other devices from the iPad, and passcode controlled updates to events.
What’s new?
Three step Event Creator builds working events from scratch
Link lighting effects to countdown and other screens*
Save power : switch off or dim lights during idle time*
Control Breeze Booth from other devices including payment systems, remote triggers and proximity sensors*
Passcode controlled update of events
Add audio to screens
Choice of print sizeand printer from the App
*requires compatible Bluetooth devices
Creating and customizing your own events
You love the Breeze Booth App and the power and flexibility of the Editor, but found it difficult to get started. We have simplified the Editor’s interface, added an easy to use event creator and buttons taking you straight to detailed help.
Easier editing
Simple Event Creator helps you build new events from scratch
Existing events are loaded automatically when you open the Editor
Free professional Chameleon theme as standard (use Chameleon with the Creator)
Screens folder is clearly named
Buttons link to detailed help for the current screen
Advanced options (including profiles) have been moved to a separate screen
Create working events in three steps
Three step Event creator builds working events for any iPad or iPhone ** using the new Chameleon theme:
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When you have built an event either transfer it straight to your booths, or add extra features such as virtual props, html emails and engaging surveys.
Give users a unique 6 digit passcode which will automatically download the latest version of the event to their device, and run it. More details …
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Where to find the latest releases
Breeze Booth 1.0.2 is a free upgrade which you can download from the App Store
Download Breeze Booth Event Editor 1.2 and Breeze Hub here
Can I try this for free?
You don’t need to buy a license to create events for Breeze Booth . Just download and install Breeze Booth Event Editor 1.2 onto a Windows PC. You can try out Breeze Booth and companion Apps Event Editor and Breeze Hub free of charge.
* Devices must run iOS 12. At time of writing (May 2019) Breeze Booth supports iPad Pro 11 and iPhone X series and well as iPads with 4:3 screens and iPhones with 16:9 screens
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Breeze Booth comes with five sample events as standard, professionally designed to run on iPads. Run these events out of the box to get a feel for what you can achieve with the App, then tweak or customize them to use at your own events.
This post covers
a brief guide to each event
general information about the sample events
how to download and run the sample events on your iPad
Getting started
You can run Breeze Booth on any iPadOS, iOS13, iOS 14 device without having or signing in to an account but it will be limited to ten photos or GIFs per day before a watermark is added to the output. There is no charge to open the account. Use it to buy subscriptions and redeem vouchers to sign in your iPads.
You will need an account with at least one active subscription or voucher to use Breeze Booth for iPad for unlimited photos. Please see Creating an Account and Logging into the Web App for more information.
Downloading the App and sample events to your iPad
There is no charge to download and run Breeze Booth on an iPad or iPhone.
Breeze Booth runs on all iPads and iPhones running iPadOS, iOS13, or iOS 14. Once you have downloaded the App, you will be prompted to download the sample events onto your iPad. This may take a little time as two of the events are quite large. Once they are successfully downloaded, you can run any of the five events.
Each sample event includes a Welcome screen with information about the event. Tap anywhere on this screen to start the event.
Sample welcome screen for the Props & Filters demo. An overlay called ready_overlay.png is displayed over over a plain background called ready.jpg
You can replace this screen with one suited to your own events, perhaps including instructions for your operator, or support information for unattended booths.
If you don’t want to use welcome screens you can hide them.
The welcome screens include a reminder that there is a secret button in the top right hand corner of each event ready screen to access the admin menu. You can password protect the settings screen if required.
Admin menu
The sample admin menus are the same for all the sample events, and include five options
return to the admin screen
switch between front and rear cameras
adjust the camera settings
sync (download the most recent version of) the event
back – go to the previous screen
Privacy/information button
There is a privacy/information button in the top left or lower right corner of all the sample events. This takes guests to one or more screens with extra information. These screens are a great place to put your business details, terms and conditions, privacy statement, or even troubleshooting advice. The sample events all include two pages of information; you can change both the content and number of information screens.
Printing and emailing from the iPad
Breeze Booth can run as a standalone App where guests email images and/or print them using AirPrint. You can also link the booth to a Windows PC running Breeze Hub for Windows based printing.
The five sample events all print and email directly from the iPad, so you do not need a Windows PC to run them.
Booth orientation
You can run Breeze Booth in both portrait and landscape, and set it up to automatically switch between the two when the iPad is rotated. Most iPad booths run in portrait orientation, so the sample events are designed for this. We have included a simple screen prompting operators to rotate the iPad back to portrait if they try to run it in landscape.
Sample landscape ready screen directing users to rotate the iPad back to portrait orientation (Breeze Booth)
You can change the design of this screen or remove it.
Five sample events
Props and filters
Boomerang GIF
Photo (no printing)
Print Menu (Printing)
Surveys
To make the most of these demos (1) run them, (2) read these notes, and (3) look at how the event is set up in the Event Editor app.
Choosing the Smiling Fowers prop Breeze Botoh for iPad
Color Filters
Breeze Booth comes with monochrome, sepia and comic style filters as standard. You can add six more custom filters.
The color and BW filter in this demo were custom made in Lightroom. To learn more about how to create your own filters, see the online manual.
Mirror Effects
Breeze Booth includes a range of mirror effects; from a simple vertical split screen mirror, to a quad screen of vertical and horizontal. Mirror effects can be applied to still images, slideshow GIFs and burst/boomerang GIFs.
Sub Menus
Breeze Booth lets you create your own sub menus. Props and filters demo uses one menu to display the choice of special effects. A second menu is used for Admin options, giving simple access to functions including Sync, camera settings and exit to the main settings. Tap the right hand corner to check this out.
Sharing by email and text
The sample events share photos by email using the inbuilt iOS Mail App. For more control over email style and content use SMTP emails.
You can also share by text using a third party service called Twilio. The sample events do not include this option.
Info Screens
Info screens are a way of presenting information to people using the photo booth. In this demo, the Info Screen is being used to display a Privacy Statement. Unattended booths might use info screens for a guide on how to use the photo booth. Corporate events might have info screens displaying their terms and conditions.
Initial Profile
Initial Profiles are a great tool to force guests or your operator to view particular information before running the booth. The sample events use the initial profile to educate people about these demos.
Demo 2 Boomerang GIF
This demo features:
Boomerang / Burst GIF
BW color filter
Animated overlay
Color filters
Breeze Booth comes with monochrome, sepia and comic style filters as standard. You can add six more custom filters.
The color and BW filter in this demo were custom made in Lightroom. To learn more about how to create your own filters, see the online manual.
Animated Overlays
GIFs can also have animated overlays applied as a series of transparent PNG files. For more information about setting up animated overlays, see the online manual.
Demo 3 Photo
This simple demonstation takes 3 photos and makes a slideshow GIF from them.
Demo 4 Print Menu
This demo features
multiple profiles
print layouts
printing
Multiple Profiles
Profiles can be used to build a custom menu system, offerings guests choices. In this demo, the menu allows a user to choose which print layout they want.
Print Layouts
The demo shows three different layouts; 6×2 strip, a single image 6×4 and a 6×4 with 4 photos.
Printing
Photos can be printed directly from the iPad with an AirPrint printer, or use our free App Breeze Hub for Windows based printing.
Windows driven printing lets you use a huge range of printers including almost all dye sublimation printers. More about printing.
Demo 5 Surveys
To make the most of this demo, have a read of these notes, and be sure to try out all the surveys. Then check out where and how the images have been saved, and have a look at how the event is set up in the Event Editor.
Note: The sureys demo has been designed to show creative ways you can customize Breeze Booth to collect and use guest data. It is not intended for use at live events.
This demo features 5 different surveys
Opt In/Out (with multiple options)
Simple Accept/Decline
Age gate
Simple Graphical Options
Advanced Graphical Options
Also demonstrated, is how data can be affected by the choices users make. As an example, the choices users make can determine:
Where images get saved
The file names of images
What text gets added to print layouts
What text gets added to emails
Where/how the images are saved
To see how survey data can affect where and how images are saved, run the demo on your iPad and check out what has happened to the images from your session.
On the iPad, open the Files App and then tap On my iPad, then Breeze Booth, then Photos. Take special note of the folder names, specifically paying attention to the Demo 5 folders, and then take a look at the files in each, and see how the file names are effected by the survey choices.
Using Survey Data in emails
Data from the survey can be used in emails like the one sent by this event.
Using the Survey Data in prints
Have a look at the print attached to the email. See how Steve creatively used the data you entered for emotion, age and Toblerone price on the print.
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.
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