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.
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Free upgrades: for one year from the date of purchase
Platforms Supported: Windows 11 and Windows 10
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Have a great week.
Sue
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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.
Find Time Limited Events here
Thanks for reading,
Sue
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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
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.
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
DSLR Remote Pro adds suport for Canon’s new EOS R8 and EOS R50 cameras.
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.
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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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:
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.
To query consent at the standby screen,:
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.
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.
To attract attention, you can also animate the screen. How to animate screens.
Add the touchscreen action Switch from standby to ready to welcome.jpg
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.
You need to add three touchscreen actions to the ready screen.
Learn how to add information screens here
This option may be preferred by advanced users comfortable with profiles. If you are not familiar with profiles, use one of the approaches above.
Build a menu profile asking May we share your photos… ?
Use
Check everything works and save your changes before you finish.
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.
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.
Watch out for DSLR Remote Pro 3.19, which will introduce a new way to create simple surveys.
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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
A quick note about using Breeze with 360 booths.
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.
Use Breeze Booth for iPad’s powerful AI background removal and video effects.
Find more examples of video effects here
Auto Start detects when a 360 degree spinner starts spinning – automatically starts the countdown and captures the video.
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.
To connect the iPhone and Kiosk tablet together you need to set up a local network.
Breeze Kiosk is fully customizable Windows app for guests to display, print and share photos, videos and GIFs from your event.
* Kiosk https://www.breezesys.com/solutions/breeze-kiosk/ is a separate Purchase.
Have a great week,
Sue
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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
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]
Photo blends can be used for more complex effects.
Use photo blends to
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.
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.
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.
This wikipedia article is a useful source of information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blend_modes. Online videos about Photoshop blend modes may also be helpful.
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.
Sue Breeze
Blended images courtesy of Steve Bliesner.
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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 is a smart tool used by professional photographers to organize, cull and enhance photos.
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
Often used with BreezeBrowser Pro, Downloader Pro minimises the time spent downloading and organising images on your PC.
… nothing can replace BBPro and DLPro for me 🙂 Jen
STILL one of my favorite all times apps. Edward Dombek (Downloader Pro user since 2006)
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.
Download BreezeBrowser Pro 1.12.4 and Downloader Pro 2.6.4
Featured image courtesy of Canon Europe
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Photo Booth Expo 2023 attendees were wowed by the innovative and powerful print compositing in Breeze Booth for iPad 3.3.
Repeating image with varied opacity (Breeze Booth for iPad 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.
Click the thumbnails for larger images of these samples:
Photographer mode puts the photographer in control. Shoot tethered to an iPhone or iPad. Share branded images straight from your iPhone/iPad.
Choose from a huge range of Canon EOS R series, M series, DSLR and PowerShot cameras. Full list
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.
Grab attention with Booth’s scrapbook style Outline effect for videos, photos and GIFs. Guest love them.
Breeze Booth outlines come in any color you choose, and show up in live view as well as outputs.
Outlines are also supported in video:
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.
Download Breeze Booth for iPad 3.3 and try for yourself
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:
Images courtesy of Steve Bliesner and Chris Breeze
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I was asked at PBX how to add sharing options to an existing Breeze DSLR Remote Pro event or profile.
Today’s post explains how to add email and SMS/MMS sharing to existing designs in Booth (DSLR+Windows) aka DSLR Remote Pro 3.18.2.1
Add email and text options to Webcam Photobooth events in the same way.
Starting from scratch? Use the Photobooth Setup Wizard instead of these instructions.
Working with profiles? Remember to load the profile before you start, and save the updated profile when you finish.
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.
This tells the program that you want to offer guests the option to share by email.
Check whether you already have a sharing screen share.jpg in your PhotoboothImages folder.
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.
NB: You can copy the sharing icons we provide for the setup wizard, or use your own png images
Open the touch screen editor
Working with profiles: remember to save the updated profile before you leave. Troubleshooting profiles
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 images here
Sharing at large and busy events, touch free sharing and sharing statistics are covered here
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.
If this is the first time you have added text based sharing, add your Twilio account details to DSLR Remote Pro.
Go bck to the touch screen editor and add the Sharing: Send MMS/SMS action to the sharing screen
Working with profiles: remember to save the updated profile before you leave. Troubleshooting profiles
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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