This post was updated in January 2021
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
Download Breeze Booth from the App Store
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.
More help getting started
General information
Each sample event includes a Welcome screen with information about the event. Tap anywhere on this screen to start the event.
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.
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.
A separate tutorial explains how to remove the branding and make other changes if you use these events for real.
Demo 1 Props and filters
This demo features:
- Digital / AR Props
- Color Filters
- Mirror Effects
- Sub Menus
- Emailing of images
- Info Screens
- Initial Profile
Digital / AR Props
Digital Props are transparent PNG files that attach and track to a guests face (eg, as the guest moves, the prop moves with them). The size and position of the Prop can be easily set in the Event Editor app. A “smiling” feature, let you change the prop when guests smile (check out the Smiling Flowers Prop to see how this works).
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.
This post was written by Sue Breeze, based on Steve Bliesner’s notes about the sample events provided with Breeze Booth.
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