We’ve had a lot of interest in adding time limits to events in DSLR Remote Pro 3.19, so I have added a tutorial to the website explaining how to use this new feature.
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 fornew Canon camerasEOS 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
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.
Did you know that there are several ways to add a simple consent screen or disclaimer to DLSR Remote Pro?
Data is usally collected using a survey. However there are simpler ways to ensure guests agree to disclaimers or terms and conditions at the start. This post runs through three alternatives:
Add a disclaimer to the Welcome/standby screen
Add a disclaimer to the Ready screen (with optional link to detailed T&C)
Use a profile menu screen for the disclaimer
Note: All three methods provide a gate guests pass by answering one question. In the worked examples I use But first.. May we share your photos online. Replace this with any question which suits your purpose.
When you need guests to answer several questions, record or analyze their responses, use a survey instead.
Use the welcome/standby screen
To query consent at the standby screen,:
Check Auto standby in Advanced settings
Add a suitable graphic called welcome.jpg to the PhotoboothImages folder
Add the touchscreen action to switch from standby to your Ready screen
Check Auto standby
Auto standby returns the booth to the Welcome screen instead of the Ready screen at the end of each session.
Start DSLR Remote Pro and click on Advanced Settings. Check Auto standby and save your changes.
Checking Auto standby in Breeze DSLR Remote Pro
Add your welcome.jpg
Make your graphic a jpg image which is the same size as your screen (in pixels). Call the graphic requesting consent to use the photos welcome.jpg and add it to your PhotoboothImages folder.
You can ask the same question on the ready screen instead of the standby screen.
You can also link from the ready screen to Information pages providing detailed term and conditions.
Guests clicking Yes!starts the countdown. Guests choosing No are returned to the standby screen. Guests clicking Maybe are shown information screen(s).
In the example above, ready.jpg is white with Yes, No and Maybe buttons. (Maybe is optional and links to information screens.)
ready_overlay.png provides the question text on a transparent background so that it shows in front of the live view.
Make sure both ready.jpg and ready_overlay.jpg are the same size in pixels as the screen.
You may prefer to switch off live view in the ready screen by checking Disable live view in ready screen in Live View Settings.
Yes/accept to take the guest to the ready screen of a second profile.
No/reject returns the guest to standby using the Switch from ready to standby action
Maybe takes the guest to information screen(s) as above
Before you leave…
Check everything works and save your changes before you finish.
More about guest consent
Collecting data and recording consent
Create custom surveys to collect guest data and record consent.
Survey data can be analysed, displayed in prints, and used to separate images into different folders.
Information screens
To add a detailed GDPR compliant privacy statement, terms and conditions or any other information screen(s) to your booth use DSLR Remote Pro Information screens.
Coming soon
Watch out for DSLR Remote Pro 3.19, which will introduce a new way to create simple surveys.
Truth is you don’t need a special app to run a 360 booth. You need a great photo booth app with video capture, slow motion, video FX and a way to start the session ….. like Breeze.
We recommend using Breeze Booth (iPad+iPhone) for 360 booths with an iPhone running 2022 iPhone SE, iPhone 14 or iPhone 13.
Use the high quality rear camera to shoot your videos, and either share them directly from Breeze Booth, or from a Windows tablet running Breeze Kiosk.
Video FX & Built in AI background removal
Use Breeze Booth for iPad’s powerful AI background removal and video effects.
locally processed AI background removal or blurring, with live view
Auto Start detects when a 360 degree spinner starts spinning – automatically starts the countdown and captures the video.
Auto Start detects when a 360 degree spinner starts spinning, automatically starts the countdown and captures the video (Breeze Booth for iPad 3.3)
Sharing your videos
Videos can be shared directly from Booth (iPad+ iPhone), or a sharing station running Breeze Kiosk.
To share from the iPhone screen set up email and/or SMS sharing as standard for the app.
To share from Kiosk use a local network to wirelessly connect the iPhone to a Windows tablet running Breeze Kiosk.
Connecting the app with Kiosk
To connect the iPhone and Kiosk tablet together you need to set up a local network.
Switch on Personal Hotspot on the iPhone, and Allow Others to join. This creates a your network ( no wifi or mobile signal needed) Set a Wi-Fi password in the iPhone to prevent others accessing the network
Alternatively set up your network with a MiFi or 4G modem router. These can provide a local wi-fi network as well as connecting to a mobile data network
Breeze Kiosk is fully customizable Windows app for guests to display, print and share photos, videos and GIFs from your event.
Breeze Blend Modes can be used creatively to achieve many different effects.
Booth (iPad+iPhone) includes normal, lighten, darken, overlay, screen, hard light, soft light, multiply, difference, exclusion, color dodge, color burn, hue, saturation, color and luminosity blend modes.
Original [left] and Lighten blend overlay applied [right]
Depending on the effect you want to achieve, you can use two methods to apply these blends
Overlay blend mode – blend the overlay with the print or GIF layout
Photo blend mode – blend individual photos with the print layout behind the photo.
Overlay blend modes
Here print , slideshow GIF or burst GIF overlay(s) are blended with the print or GIF layout
Original [left] and Darken blend overlay applied [right]
To use print overlay blends
Open your event in the Event Editor
Open the Print Layout Editor from the Photos tab
Import your overlay (overlay.png) into the Print Layout Editor
Select the overlay blend mode in the Photos tab
Save your changes
To use slideshow GIF overlay blends
Place your overlay (slideshow_gif_overlay.png or slideshow_gif_overlay_1.png, slideshow_gif_overlay_2.png etc) into the Screens folder
Open your event in the Event Editor
Select the overlay blend mode in the Slideshow GIFs tab
Save your changes
To use Burst GIF overlay blends
Place your overlay (gif_overlay.png or gif_overlay_1.png, gif_overlay_2.png etc.) into the Screens folder
Open your event in the Event Editor
Select the overlay blend mode in the Burst GIFs tab
Save your changes
Photo blend modes (prints only)
Photo blends can be used for more complex effects.
Use photo blends to
apply different blend modes to each image on a print
Overlay blend + color wash & contrast adjustment (Breeze for iPad Print Compositing)
Overlay and logos can also be placed over blended photos.
Individual photo blends are applied to everything behind that photo – including parts of any other photos, logos and background it overlaps.
To use photo overlay blends
Open your event in the Event Editor
Open the Print Layout Editor from the Photos tab
Select an image you want to blend, and right click anywhere on this image
Choose Edit photo position and effects…
Select the blend mode from the drop down list
Save your changes
Selecting screen photo blend for a single image (Breeze Booth for iPad 3.3)
Combining blend modes with AI background removal
Blend modes often work best when used with AI background removal so that they only apply to people in the photo and not the background.
Darken photo blend with AI background removal
Choosing a blend mode
Booth (iPad+iPhone) includes normal, lighten, darken, overlay, screen, hard light, soft light, multiply, difference, exclusion, color dodge, color burn, hue, saturation, color and luminosity blend modes.
Blend modes can be used to achieve many different effects, and detailed descriptions of each are beyond the scope of this post.
Note: When experimenting with blend modes the free version’s 10 sessions/day limit before adding a watermark may prove frustrating. Please email me (sales@breezesys.com) if you would like a short term Breeze Booth for iPad license to try Breeze blend modes.
BreezeBrowser Pro 1.12.4 and Downloader Pro 2.6.4 were released today 24 March 2023, adding support for new Canon cameras.
BreezeBrowser Pro
BreezeBrowser Pro is a smart tool used by professional photographers to organize, cull and enhance photos.
Video thumbnails (BreezeBrowser Pro 1.12.4 filmstrip view)
What our customers say
I’m an ardent promoter of BB [BreezeBrowser Pro], it’s my beloved file selection and management tool.Adam Trzcionka
I have never encountered a photo manager program better than BreezeBrowser Pro. It does everything you could want, and is designed to be of maximum help to the user. Very few modern programs do that, and none better than BreezeBrowser Pro. Bill Ford
BreezeBrowser Pro 1.12.4
adds support for displaying video previews and thumbnails
adds support for the display of focus points from the CanonEOS R3, Canon EOS R6 Mark II, Canon EOS R7, Canon EOS R10 and Canon EOS R50
fixes an issue displaying portrait orientation images when linking raw+JPEG
Both releases are a free upgrade for all registered users who purchased a license within the last 18 months. Users with older licenses will need to buy an upgrade license to use the latest versions of BreezeBrowser Pro and Downloader Pro.
Choose from a huge range of Canon EOS R series, M series, DSLR and PowerShot cameras. Full list
No extra charges
Photographer Mode is included in the standard Breeze Booth for iPad subscription. There are no extra costs for using this feature, and no per event charges.
Free Trial version & free 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.
Platforms Supported: iPads and iPhones running iPadOS 16, iPadOS 15, iOS 16 and iOS 15
We strongly recommend using fast recent devices to post process videos and offer built in background removal with live view.
Use your camera in landscape to take photos with this event. It is designed to run on a small iPhone (e.g. iPhone SE) connected directly to a Canon camera. The phone can be fixed to the camera in either portrait or landscape orientation. For best results enable the orientation lock on the phone.
Once you have installed Breeze Booth for iPad 3.3, download this event to your iPhone or iPad by scanning this QR code with the device camera:
Working with profiles? Remember to load the profile before you start, and save the updated profile when you finish.
Tell DSLR Remote Pro to share photos by email and/or text
Start DSLR Remote Pro and if necessary load your design or profile.
Before sending emails from Breeze you need to set up the email server settings. You only need to do this the first time you send emails from the booth. How to add your email account details.
Check email sharing on the Output screen
This tells the program that you want to offer guests the option to share by email.
Setting the flag which tells DSLR Remote Pro to offer sharing images by email
Create or update a sharing screen
Check whether you already have a sharing screen share.jpg in your PhotoboothImages folder.
Current PhotoboothImages folder (Breeze DSLR Remote Pro 3.15.5)
Screen graphic share.jpg
If there is no share.jpg in in the PhotoboothImages folder use an image editor to create one.
The new screen graphic should be the same size in pixels as the other screens. Include buttons for your sharing options and to exit the screen.
Sharing screen graphic share.jpg with email and exit buttons (Breeze DSLR Remote Pro 3.15.5)
If you already have a sharing screen,add an email button to share.jpg
NB: You can copy the sharing icons we provide for the setup wizard, or use your own png images
Icons used by the setup wizard can be found at C:\Users\…\Documents\Breeze Systems\DSLR Remote Pro\wizard. Copy these or use your own png image. (Image shows icons used by Tradewind White)
Add touch screen actions to the sharing screen
Open the touch screen editor
Opening the touch screen editor (DSLR Remote Pro 3.15.5)
Right click and select Share: share.jpg screen . This displays your share.jpg graphic, the area of the screen covered by the image, and any actions which have already been already set up.
Adding touch screen actions which match the sharing screen graphic (Breeze DSLR Remote Pro 3.15.5)
Right click on an unused part of the screen
Add the action Sharing: Email photos.
Drag and drop this action to cover your email button (1)
If you don’t already have a close action, add a second action Sharing: Close sharing screen
Drag and drop the Close action over your close button (2)
If these buttons overlay the image area, move/resize the image to separate them (3)
Right click once more to exit the touch screen editor, saving your changes.
Working with profiles: remember to save the updated profile before you leave. Troubleshooting profiles
More about sharing by email
Find out how to collect email addresses used to share images, customize email content, share GIFs and find the best balance between sharing images quickly and sending the highest quality imageshere
Sharing at large and busy events, touch free sharing and sharing statistics are covered here
Adding SMS/MMS text sharing to your design
Add text based sharing in the same way.
You will need a share.jpg screen in your PhotoboothImages folder, which includes text and exit buttons.
Sharing screen graphic share.jpg with text, email and exit buttons (Breeze DSLR Remote Pro 3.15.5)
Check MMS/SMS sharing on the Output Settings screen
Setting the flag which tells DSLR Remote Pro to offer sharing images by SMS/MMS
Add the MMS/SMS touch screen action to the sharing screen
Go bck to the touch screen editor and add the Sharing: Send MMS/SMS action to the sharing screen
Right click on an unused part of the screen
Add the action Sharing: Send MMS/SMS.
Drag and drop this action to cover your text button
If you don’t already have a close action,, add a second action Sharing: Close sharing screen
Drag and drop the Close action over your close button
If these buttons overlay each other or the image area, move/resize the actions to separate them
Right click once more to exit the touch screen editor, saving your changes.
Working with profiles: remember to save the updated profile before you leave. Troubleshooting profiles
Adding the Sharing: Send MMS/SMS action to the sharing screen graphic (Breeze DSLR Remote Pro 3.15.5)
More about sharing by MMS/SMS
Not sure whether to send SMS+Image, SMS or MMS texts? Find the answer and learn how to customize text messages, send texts via Breeze Hub or use touch free texting here
Find out how to view cell phone numbers used to share images and sharing statistics here
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