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DSLR Remote Pro 3.16 released

December 15, 2021 Sue Breeze

This major upgrade to Breeze Booth (Windows+DSLR) aka DLSR Remote Pro is packed full of new features and improvements.

DSLR Remote Pro 3.16 improves sharing, simplifies set up for digital booths, adds built in reporting tools for event and survey stats, and supports touch free mobile and credit card payment systems.

Guests can now choose between different print templates either at the start or close of their session.

12 January 2022: DSLR Remote Pro 3.16.1 fixes an issue adding attachments to emails as file attachments. Users who send emails from DSLR Remote Pro are recommended to upgrade to v3.16.1 instead of using v3.16.

DSLR Remote Pro 3.16.1 is a free upgrade for all customers entitled to use DSLR Remote Pro 3.16.

Retro booth – 21st century payment. Take Apple Pay, Google Pay, Sumsung Pay and cards as well as cash or bills with Breeze.

Improved sharing

No more waiting for images to upload before the next session starts – DSLR Remote Pro 3.16 sends emails & texts in the background
Share high quality MP4 copies of GIFs as standard
Full control over email attachments
Report event sharing stats to your clients
New Scan at startup option to spot and share any unsent texts and emails

Digital booths made simpler

Whether your customers love digital or you can’t get your hands on any media this holiday, digital booths are everywhere. DSLR Remote Pro 3.16 makes it easier to switch to print free events.

Set up a print free digital booth with a single click using the updated Photo booth Setup Wizard
Captions generated by the setup wizard have been updated to suit both print and digital booths ( English only)

Built in Analytics

New reporting tools analyse sharing stats, survey results and session data from DSLR Remote Pro

Sharing report shows the number of sessions, quantity of emails and texts sent, and lists each email address and cell phone number.
Event statistics summarizes data from one or many booths, identifying the busiest periods and devices. This report also shows the total number of sessions broken down by photos, GIFs and video, ad sharing figures for the event.
Survey Data details guest responses to your surveys. The report can also combine responses from other booths running DSLR Remote Pro, Breeze Booth for iPad and Webcam Photobooth.

Rapid export to Excel and other spreadsheets: Copy and paste data from all DSLR Remote Pro reports into spreadsheets for further analysis and creation of graphical reports.

Choose between backgrounds and overlays after the photos are taken

Superb with AI background removal. Guests check how they look in up to 6 different environments before printing and sharing their photos.

Improvements to the Photo booth Setup Wizard

The Breeze Photobooth Setup Wizard is a fast, simple and reliable way to generate a working booth. DSLR Remote Pro 3.16 adds

New Digital booth option
New Create Slideshow GIF option
Photos shared as animated GIFs converted to MP4s*
Higher quality images shared as standard**

*Print layouts (especially strips) often work better on paper than online. Add interest by sharing the same photos as a GIF converted to an MP4.

** You can still tweak the DSLR Remote Pro settings to find the best balance between sharing high quality images and sharing images quickly.

Total control over email attachments

DSLR Remote Pro 3.16 gives total control over the quality and images you share by email. You have complete freedom to choose whether to share photos, GIFs, print layouts &/or movies.

Support for contactless mobile and credit card payments

Our powerful new payments utility improves support for taking payments from unattended booths. Great for clubs, retail, theme parks, bars and museums.

Payment based photo booths accept Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay and other mobile and NFC payments, debit & credit cards, notes or cash using the Breeze MDB Payment Utility.

We have added the same touch free technology to Kiosk 2.1 payment mode and Breeze Booth for iPad today.

There’s plenty more

Option to disable line drawing on prints so that users can only add emojis or stickers to prints
Option to create events with slideshow GIFs or MP4s and for “digital only” events when running the photo booth setup wizard
The processed image now supports a background image named processed_photo_background.jpg. When using the transparent background option when shooting green screen or using AI background removal the optional greenscreen_background.jpg image is added to the photo’s background before it is added to the processed image
The time the reprinting.jpg/processing.jpg screen is displayed when reprinting from the reprint selection screen is now configurable
Ability to scan in the event name and event strings when scanning QR codes.

A few fixes

Updated URL shortening for SMS+image text messages due to changes made by TinyUrl.com
Fixed issue with the live view 4:3 aspect ratio option not cropping the live view
Fixed issue with the sizing of preview images in photo booth mode with some screen sizes andorientations

Finally

Support for legacy print layout which was replaced by the print layout editor in DSLR Remote Pro v3.0 has been removed

Upgrade to DSLR Remote Pro 3.16.1 today

DSLR Remote Pro 3.16.1 fixes an issue adding attachments to emails as file attachments. Users who send emails from DSLR Remote Pro are recommended to upgrade to v3.16.1 instead of using v3.16.

DSLR Remote Pro 3.16.1 is a free upgrade for all registered users who purchased DSLR Remote Pro after 15th December 2020.. Customers with older licenses need to buy an upgrade license to use this release.

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Breeze for iPad + DSLR/M50

April 15, 2021 Sue Breeze

We are delighted to announce the release of Breeze Booth for iPad 2.0 today. This major upgrade adds support for external cameras, new event designs created by The Photo Booth Guys, a free email service and much more.

What’s new in Booth 2.0?

DSLR and mirrorless camera support
iPad monitor/remote control
Free designs crafted by The Photobooth Guys
Event ready
Unique roamer Interface
Free email service
Email template designer
Share and reprint gallery
Slideshow

DSLR and EOS M50 camera support

Breeze Booth for iPad 2.0 supports most Canon DSLR cameras, M50 Mk II, M50, M200, M6 Mark II, PowerShot SX70 HS, G5 X Mark II & G7 X Mark III. More…

Troubleshoot remotely

Breeze is respected worldwide for rock solid reliability. It’s still good to know that the new iPad controller lets you check exactly what is going on in the field and sort out problems.

Awesome events included

Booth includes superb new event designs crafted by Steve Bliesner (The Photo Booth Guys). Use them with the iPad’s built in camera or add a DSLR.

The new events include examples with props and filters, AI based background removal, engaging surveys, landscape oriented events to make the most of external cameras, plus a unique interface for roamers.

Most can be used straight from the box. You need Twilio account details to send SMS/MMS messages, and the key for your background removal service for AI Background Removal.

A huge thank you to Steve for creating and sharing these amazing and practical designs. We love them!

Ready to run

Download Breeze Booth for iPad 2.0 from the App Store, log in and run your first event.

Unique Roamer Interface

Download a unique interface designed especially for roamers.

Free email service

Share using our free email service or your own email provider.

Email template designer

Send stylish emails complete with graphics, social media links and custom text. All simple to set up with the new email template designer.

Share & reprint gallery

Browse the new iPad event gallery to find, share and print pics from earlier sessions.

Slideshow

Attract attention while the booth is idle with the new slideshow.

What else makes Breeze Booth for iPad stand out from the crowd?

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.

Centralised event setup: 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: Events can run offline if necessary.

Touch free operation and updates: The most comprehensive contactless iPad system available. Use QR codes to create a simple “Scan to Start” system, automatically send images via email and text, advanced experiences and event deployment with the scan of a code. More

Technical Stuff

Cameras Supported: iPad and iPhone front and rear facing integral cameras. Most Canon EOS DSLR and R series cameras, Canon’s mirrorless M50 Mk II, M50, M200, M6 Mark II PowerShot SX70 HS, G5 X Mark II & G7 X Mark III.

Platforms Supported (updated October 2021): All iPads and iPhones running iPadOS 15, iPadOS 15, iOS14, iPadOS 14, iPadOS 13, iOS14, iOS 13. Versions 15 and 14 are recommended.

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.

Texts : You need a Twilio account to send texts from Booth.

Free emails: There’s no limit or charge for emails sent from your own email provider. Our free email service is limited to 1000 emails/month/device, and 10 free emails/day if the device is not logged in.

AI background removal: Booth background removal requires paid third party services. More

Download Breeze Booth for iPad 2.0 and try for yourself

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Sharing emails and texts from Breeze

March 22, 2021 Sue Breeze

You can find four new photo booth tutorials about sharing emails and texts on the Breeze website.

Texting from Breeze
Emailing images from DSLR Remote Pro Part 1
Emailing images from DSLR Remote Pro Part 2
Emails from Breeze (Setting up account details)

Texting from Breeze runs through sending text messages via Twilio, including

how to add Twilio account details to Breeze apps DSLR Remote Pro, Kiosk, Booth (iPad+ iPhone), Hub and Webcam Photobooth
choosing whether to use SMS+Image, SMS or MMS to send texts
customizing messages
texting via Hub
touch free texting with Breeze

Two tutorials on sending emails from DSLR Remote Pro have been added this morning:

DSLR Remote Pro emails Part 1 explains the basics and covers

Running the setup wizard to create a working booth sending emails
Adding email account settings
Collecting email addresses
Branding and personalizing emails
Sharing GIFs, prints and MP4s
Image quality vs sharing speed

DSLR Remote Pro emails Part 2 focuses on efficient sharing at large and busy events, and sharing statistics. Part 2 runs through

Running a separate sharing station with Kiosk
Sharing images in the background with Hub
Touch free sharing
Hub Sharing statistics
Collecting email addresses and cell phone numbers

Emails from Breeze – adding your account details is a beginners guide to adding email account details

How to add email account details to Breeze apps DSLR Remote Pro, Kiosk , Hub and Webcam Photobooth

Find these and other tutorials on the website here

Sue

Breeze Booth for iPad, DSLR Remote Pro

DSLR Remote Pro 3.15.2 & Breeze Booth (iPad+iPhone) 1.1.1 released

July 4, 2020 Sue Breeze

Thank you for your feedback as you started using QR codes over the last few months. You asked for touch free sharing by text as well as email, and some of you had trouble scanning QR codes in harsh lighting conditions.

We have added touch free texting (SMS+Image, SMS and MMS) to DSLR Remote Pro and Breeze Booth for iPad, and a unique algorithm to DSLR Remote Pro to read QR codes in bright light outdoors. There is also a new online form for contactlessbooth.com to quickly build the custom screens your guests see when they create QR codes.

What’s new in each new release?

New in Booth (iPad+iPhone) 1.1.1

Texting now supports SMS+image and MMS (USA and Canada only) as well as SMS
Contactless sharing by text
Autotexting
More accurate face-tracking for virtual props

New in DSLR Remote Pro 3.15.2 aka Booth (DSLR+Windows)

Contactless sharing by text
Autotexting
Improved ability to read QR codes in bright high contrast lighting
Fixed issue reading QR codes on portait oriented sharing screens

New at contactlessbooth.com

Guest generating a unqiue QR code which start the booth and automatically texts the photo session – touch free

Guest QR codes now auto text images as well as sharing them by email
A new contactless form designer makes creating custom webpages where your guests generate their QR codes faster and simpler.

New in Hub 1.2

Texting now supports SMS+image and MMS (USA and Canada only) as well as SMS

Use Hub to share guests texts from Breeze DSLR Remote Pro, Webcam Photobooth, Kiosk and Booth (iPad+iPhone) using Twilio SMS+Image, SMS and MMS.

New in Event Editor 1.4.2

Support for updates to Booth (iPad+iPhone) for texting with SMS+image and MMS, and autotexting.

Confused about the difference between SMS+Image, SMS and MMS?

Check out the new tutorial.

©Breeze Systems July 2020

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Sending images to multiple email addresses with DSLR Remote Pro and Kiosk

December 5, 2018 Sue Breeze

Guests often want to share images to several email addresses. The default versions of both DSLR Remote Pro and Breeze Kiosk send emails to one address at a time. DSLR Remote Pro 3.12 and Breeze Kiosk 1.5 introduce the ability to cc additional addresses when sending emails.

Sending images to multiple addresses from DSLR Remote Pro

Example 1: Adding a CC line to the email keyboard

We need to add a second prompt to the email keyboard. We do this by editing the default email_keyboard.xml file. I am going to walk you through this step by step. It doesn’t matter if you have never seen xml before.

First open the touchscreen editor, click on Test keyboard… and select Email keyboard.

Accessing the email keyboard in DSLR Remote Pro 3.12

Email keyboard created by setup wizard in DSLR Remote Pro 3.12

Then left click the mouse while holding down both Shift and Ctrl keys. This lets you save the XML file and the keyboard images.

First delete the four keyboard image files from the PhotoBoothImages folder(otherwise we won’t see any any changes we make to the text prompts).

PhotoBoothImages folder showing **email_keyboard.xml** and keyboard images (DSLR Remote PRo 3.12)

Open the email_keyboard.xml file in a text editor such as Microsoft Notepad (which comes free with Windows 10)

Replace the highlighted text with this and save the changes:

<prompt1 email_address=”1″ mandatory=”1″>Please enter your email address:</prompt1>

<text1_x>38</text1_x>

<text1_y>170</text1_y>

<text1_r>1882</text1_r>

<prompt2 email_address=”1″>CC:</prompt2>

<text2_x>38</text2_x>

<text2_y>356</text2_y>

<text2_r>1882</text2_r>

Note: Here the second prompt will appear below the first prompt. This is achieved by using the same x coordinate, and different y coordinates. The CC email address is optional and so prompt2 does not need the ‘mandatory’ attribute.

xml changed to share to two email addresses

Two is not enough?

There is usually room on a booth or kiosk screen to add the second line above. You may find it more difficult to find space to enter three or more addresses. The screen size, orientation ( there is usually more empty space in portrait oriented mirror booths than landscape photo booths and kiosks) and the numberof characters allowed for email addresses all make a difference.

These examples in this post have been created for a screen 1920 pixels wide by 1080 pixels high. If your screen is different you may need to adjust the values you use. It is also possible (but more complicated) to change the size and position of the keyboard buttons on your screen. More details

Example 2 has space for 3 email addresses to be entered below each other. Example 3 includes 4 email addresses in 2 rows. Both are created by editing the email_keyboard.xml in the same way as before. Each time you edit the xml, use DSLR Remote Pro’s test keyboard to check whether your changes work as you expect.

Example 2: Adding two CC lines to the email keyboard

Here a third prompt has been added below the others. To fit this in above the keyboard, the y coordinates of all 3 fields have been adjusted and the size of the text reduced (DSLR Remote Pro 3.12)

Example 3: Four email addresses on the email keyboard

In this example a single email is sent to four different addresses:

For more detail and other ways you can customize the touch screen keyboards in DSLR Remote Pro see the help files

Sending images to multiple addresses from Breeze Kiosk

Use the same technique with Breeze Kiosk. Start with the default email_keyboard.xml file by (1) selecting Settings. (2) Check that sending emails is enabled, and (3) click on Test keyboard…

Accessing the email keyboard in Breeze Kiosk 1.5

Then left click the mouse while holding down both Shift and Ctrl keys. This lets you save the XML file and the keyboard images. Delete the keyboard images and edit the xml in the same way as for DSLR Remote Pro.

For more detail and other ways you can customize the Breeze Kiosk touch screen keyboards see the touchscreen keyboard section of the help files

Summary

This post has walked you through adding cc email addresses to your DSLR Remote Pro screens, and outlined how to make similar changes to Breeze Kiosk.

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Image sharing, privacy and consent

April 13, 2018 Sue Breeze 1 Comment

Breeze have always respected our customers’ privacy and that of guests captured with our software. Our software is sold worldwide; our customers have differing ethical and legal responsibilities about processing and handling data (including photos and other images).

No Breeze photo booth program (ie DSLR Remote Pro, Webcam Photobooth, DSLR Remote Pro for Mac, and PSRemote) shares photos online by default; photos are only shared if the program is explicitly set up to do so.

Breeze Kiosk was developed to enable social sharing. The current release Breeze Kiosk 1.4.4 will only transfer images to/from any social media site if the program is explicitly set up to do so.

Note: Older releases of Breeze Kiosk defaulted to allow images to be uploaded to Facebook. Images are only uploaded to other social media sites or downloaded from Instagram and Twitter if the program is explicitly set up to do so.

Breeze Kiosk privacy mode will only allow images to be displayed, shared or printed if the user enters the correct code.

Breeze Systems have no access to or control over guest images or data generated by our software, with two exceptions documented in the help files:

When animated GIFs are shared on Facebook, Breeze software stores a copy of the GIF on GIPHY
When images are shared by MMS and ‘SMS + Image’ using Twilio, the shared images and file names are stored on Breeze servers for 7 days and then deleted. The mobile number is not stored on Breeze servers. It is possible (although not necessary) for a user to generate image file names which include personal information about the event or guests. The Breeze servers are hosted by an EU based ISP.

The current versions of our photo booth software and Breeze Kiosk allow you to offer ‘opt in’ consent to image sharing.

Where oursoftware enables users to upload, download, and store photos the user controls where and how the images are sent; often using third party services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Dropbox. Don’t forget that it is your responsibility as user to ensure the third-party services you use are appropriate for your events and the jurisdiction you are working in.

Improved sharing

Digital booths made simpler

Built in Analytics

Choose between backgrounds and overlays after the photos are taken

Improvements to the Photo booth Setup Wizard

Total control over email attachments

Support for contactless mobile and credit card payments

There’s plenty more

A few fixes

Finally

Upgrade to DSLR Remote Pro 3.16.1 today

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What’s new in Booth 2.0?

DSLR and EOS M50 camera support

Troubleshoot remotely

Awesome events included

Ready to run

Unique Roamer Interface

Free email service

Email template designer

Share & reprint gallery

Slideshow

What else makes Breeze Booth for iPad stand out from the crowd?

Technical Stuff

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New in Booth (iPad+iPhone) 1.1.1

New in DSLR Remote Pro 3.15.2 aka Booth (DSLR+Windows)

New at contactlessbooth.com

New in Hub 1.2

New in Event Editor 1.4.2

Confused about the difference between SMS+Image, SMS and MMS?

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Sending images to multiple addresses from DSLR Remote Pro

Example 1: Adding a CC line to the email keyboard

Two is not enough?

Example 2: Adding two CC lines to the email keyboard

Example 3: Four email addresses on the email keyboard

Sending images to multiple addresses from Breeze Kiosk

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