Breeze Booth for iPad 3.4.1. was released today, linking AI image generation services to the power of Breeze Booth for iPad’s photo booth app.
To create AI images of your guests use Breeze Booth for iPad’s new post processing feature with a third party AI generation service*
This release also includes an easy to use survey builder.
Create AI effects
Booth 3.4.1’s new post processing option supports third party image processing, making it possible to create, print and share AI generated images of guests at events.
*Third party services adding AI effects to images
We Fly Kites and Printaparty are currently building AI Image generation services designed to integrate with Breeze Booth for iPad.
Steve Bliesner and Faisal Achmad have kindly let me try pre-release versions of both. See the results below:
I love this Manga cartoon created in Breeze Booth for iPad using Printaparty.sg ‘s AI Generation serviceOriginal photo
Ageing effect courtesy of We Fly Kites The event included a survey to let users choose how much to age themselves.
Advanced Breeze users can build their own interface to third party AI services such as Stability AI.
Enabling post processing and selecting the AI generation service URL (Breeze Booth for iPad 3.4.1)
New Breeze Booth for iPad Survey Builder
Booth’s new survey builder is a fast and simple way to build custom surveys. The following screenshots show how to build a survey with an age gate, autoemail and choice of cartoon style:
The survey builder can include check boxes, radio buttons and text, optional or mandatory fields. To automatically email my photo select autoemail:
Defining the survey screen (Breeze Booth for iPad 3.4.1).
Tip:Choose meaningful field names for your surveys.
Survey tokens
Special survey tokens are created which can be used in many ways, including
separating output into different folders
print captions
using radio buttons to offer a choice of effect (here Manga, Pop or basic cartoon) by selecting different post processing URLs
Touch screen settings for the same survey (Breeze Booth for iPad 3.4.1)The same survey in action.
AI Yearbook, Cartoon Booth and Time Machine
Faisal has kindly allowed me to share these videos of Breeze Booth for iPad/Printaparty AI events:
New to Booth for iPad?
Try Breeze for iPad completely free of charge. The demonstration and sample events are free to use as well.
You will find help to get you started, fabulous free events and tutorials here
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.
The first European Photo Booth Expo (PBX) in London was a great success last week, with attendees flying in from from Australia, Canada, the USA, and South America, across Europe and the UK.
The hot topic at the show was undoubtedly integrating AI image generation with photo booths.
AI Image generation with Breeze
The next release of Breeze Booth for iPad includes the ability to post process photos using AI or PhotoShop Droplets using third party services such as Stability AI.
Similar AI Image processing can already be applied using post processing and third party processing in DSLR Remote Pro.
Breeze Booth AI Image processing support includes both text to image and image to image processing.
Text to Image AI allows the background to be switched in repsonse to text chosen in advance or entered during survey questions.
Image to Image AI changes photos in response to a text prompt. Again text can be chosen in advance or entered during survey questions.
Visitors queuing to see the Breeze demos at the tradeshow on Monday afternoon (Image courtesy of Photo Booth Expo).
There was frequent laughter as guests saw themselves age in Steve’s AI demo.
Audio Booth Integration
Steve’s integration of a phone for audio and video recordings with Breeze Booth for iPad was also a huge hit at the Breeze stand.
Guests picked up the handset to record an audio or video message for their mother, or took a selfie. Recordings/photos were emailed directly to Mum.
Use the same concept at weddings to record messages for bride and groom.
Breeze Booth for iPad linked to At The Beep retro phone to record audio and video recordings for Mum
Nicholas Rhodes (thought provoking keynote talk A New Era with A.I. Photo Booths
Master Class
Steve also demonstrated how to create Football Player cards using Breeze Booth for iPad in the Breeze Master Class on Monday afternoon.
Demos
Once again Steve came up with amazing demos and an attention grabbing backdrop for the Breeze stand.
Young Stevie Brown CD cover created with Breeze Botoh for iPad
Stranger CD cover created with Breeze Botoh for iPad
Thank you!
Thanks to all of you who visited the stand – it was a pleasure to meet every one of you. Special thanks to Steve Bliesner, Owen McCrink and Jürgen Mayr for their tireless hard work, and to Peter Bodingbauer for the amazing chocolate cake.
Finally our thanks to Peter Holding, Steven Honeyball and Rob Savickis for organising the first Photo Booth Expo Europe.
Peter, Rob and Steven at the Expo Entrance
Chris & Sue exhausted but happy at the end of the Trade Show ( Photo by Peter Bodingbauer using Breeze Booth for iPad’s Photographer mode)
There are still a few places left at the Breeze Master Class next Monday at Photo Booth Expo (PBX) Europe.
Breeze Master Class Monday 18th September at 16:00
Steve Bliesner will offer a deep dive into some of the newest features from Breeze, with practical examples of using the powerful AI background removal tools, image blending modes and how to bring it all together with a custom user interface.
Book your place on Monday 18th September at 4pm here
Keynote presentation
Steve will also give a Keynote presentation My rules for running a successful event businesson Tuesday morning at 8.30am.
Steve Bliesner: My rules for running a successful event business
Tuesday morning 08:30
Keep things simple. Be early, but not too early (and definitely dont be late). Make friends. Look out for each other. Learn your tools and RTFM. Experience first. Money second. The end.
Who’s Steve?
Breeze Ambassador Steve Bliesner is the founder and Creative Director of Australian based companies: The Photo Booth Guys and At the Beep. With nearly 15 years experience in the Photo Booth, and Events Industry, and regarded as an “out of the box” thinker…Steve is probably now considered to be a Dinosaur, who’s probably run out of fresh ideas. But this old T-Rex somehow managed to have some of his best years in business through-out the pandemic, and might just have something worth listening to.
Chris, Sue and Steve also look forward to welcoming you to the Breeze PBX trade show stand on Monday and Tuesday afternoons. The Breeze stand is right at the entrance.
These notes are intended as a quick guide to the latest release for existing Booth (iPad+iPhone) users.
For more detailed explanations please see the online manual
What’s in this release?
Breeze Booth (iPad+iPhone) 3.4
extends Photographer Mode introduced in v3.3
adds time limited photo booth sessions
adds a privacy option to encrypt guest email addresses and cell phone numbers.
adds actions to delete unwanted photos from the gallery
adds support for the Canon EOS R6 Mark II, Canon EOS R8, Canon EOS R50 and Canon EOS R100
includes EXIF data when saving individual photos from external cameras
processed photos can be placed within a larger canvas
Photographer Mode/Tethered Shooting
Shoot tethered without waiting for photos to download. Switch between landscape and portrait on the fly. Two free Roaming events optimised for mirrorless and DSLR cameras.
Faster Shooting
Run tethered shooting as before. Chris has added a buffer so there is no need to wait for photos to download before taking the next shot.
Switching between landscape and portrait
Photos can be taken in either landscape or portrait orientation and a different print layout can be used for each. Simply rotate the camera to frame photos vertically or horizontally – you don’t need to adjust the app settings.
To enable the automatic selection of the print layout you need to set the event up correctly in the Event Editor:
In the Event Editor
use one of the Roaming events below or create your own event with profiles for both landscape and portrait orientations
print layouts in the landscape profile should be in landscape orientation
print layouts in the portrait profile should be in portrait orientation
Download Roaming Events to the app using the QR code. Two events are downladed. Roaming ( Mirrorless) is designed for Canon’s mirrorless cameras. Roaming ( DSLR) is for Canon DSLR cameras. Live view is switched off, enabling the photographer to use the camera’s view finder.
To adapt these events to meet your requirements download this zip file to your PC and import the events into the Event Editor.
When photos are printed the app uses the orientation information stored in the EXIF shooting data to determine whether it was taken in landscape or portrait.
Photos taken in landscape use the print layout from the landscape profile.
Photos taken in portrait use the print layout from the portrait profile.
Time limited sessions
Switch on Time Limited sessions and set start and end times in the App Settings.
Toggle Timed sessions on and off on the App settings screen. Select the start and end times and add a message for the Before opening screen if desired (Breeze Botoh for iPad 3.4)
The Event Creator will automatically include before_session.jpg and after_session.jpg screens in the Screen folder. Both screens have a hidden exit in the top right corner of the screen.
When adapting existing Breeze Booth designs, add before_session.jpg and after_session.jpg screens to the Screens folder and give these exit actions. Exit actions are essential – without them you cannot exit the event outside booth opening hours. The exit action is called exitFromBeforeAfterSession.
Events running past midnight
End time can be before the start time for events running past midnight, eg start time 21:00 and end time 01:00. (This only works when end time is before 8:00.)
Optional Booth opening message
Text including opening and closing times can be added to the before_session.jpg screen using the Msg field*
Messages can be made up of more than one line of text by adding \n to start a new line. The following tokens can be used:
{startTime} – this is replaced with the start time e.g. 19:00 {endTime} – this is replaced with the end time e.g. 22:30 {timeToStart} – this is replaced with the time until the photo booth opens e.g. 2:34:52
*before_session.jpg and after_session.jpg screens built by the Event Creator include text. If you add your own message, you also need to replace before_session.jpg and after_session.jpg in the Event Editor.
Touch screen actions
Remember to include a hidden exit touchscreen action so that you can exit the event outside opening hours.
You can also add actions to open early and add an extra 10 minutes.
These actions can all be password protected using the standard Exit Password.
Enhanced Privacy of personal data
For additional privacy select Encrypt email addresses and phone numbers for privacy. This will encrypt email addresses and phone numbers when they are stored in the XML email and text files and the journal files so that they can’t be read.
Encrypted addresses and phone numbers are decrypted when sending the email or text, but are always encrypted when saved to file.
There is no option to display the decrypted email address or phone number in the Breeze Booth for iPad app, Event Editor or Breeze Hub’s reporting tools.
Encrypting email address and cell phone numbers for enhanced privacy (Breeze Booth for iPad 3.4)
Removing unwanted photos from the gallery
New touchscreen actions galleryDelete and galleryDeletePermanently allow unwanted or inappropriate images to be removed from the gallery sharing screen gallery_share.png. These options can be protected using a password if required. To do this set the exit password in the iPad’s App Settings screen.
galleryDelete does not delete any files, instead it marks the image as deleted
galleryDeletePermanently deletes the photo booth summary file and all associated photos, GIFs and MP4 files
Breeze Booth (iPad+iPhone) 3.4 was released today.
This release updates the tethered shooting support introduced in the last release, and adds time limited photo booth sessions. A new privacy option encrypts guest email addresses and cell phone numbers. We have also added the ability to delete unwanted photos from the gallery.
Photographer Mode/Tethered shooting
Thank you for the enthusiastic feedback for tethered shooting, introduced earlier this year.
Upgrade to Booth 3.4 to shoot faster, switch freely between landscape and portrait, and save EXIF data with the photos.
Tether your camera to Breeze Booth (iPad+iPhone)
Fast shooting rate
There’s no wait for photos to download before taking the next photo
Switch between landscape and portrait
Switch freely between shooting in landscape and portrait. Booth automatically applies appropriate overlay and background to landscape and portrait oriented prints. Learn more
EXIF Shooting Data
EXIF shooting data is saved with individual photos when external cameras are used.
Timed Sessions
Limit the booth to timed sessions
Set start and end times for an event
Display custom Before Session and After Sessionscreens or videos outside opening hours
Password protected Early Start
Password Protected Extra Time
Privacy Option
For additional privacyemail addresses and phone numbers can be encrypted when they are stored so that they can’t be read.
Improved support for Processed Photos
Processed photoscan now be placed within a larger canvas to allow space for borders etc.
Breeze Booth (iPad+iPhone) supports iPad and iPhone front and rear facing integral cameras. Alternatively choose from a huge range of Canon camera models.
At the time of writing (June 2023) we believe the Canon EOS R100, R10, M50 Mk II and M50 are good choices. These are allcompact models with Canon’s excellent dual pixel AF with face detect in live view.
Booth supports: Canon EOS R100, R50, R10, R8, R7, R6 Mark II, R6, R5, R3, RP, M50 Mk II, M50, M200, M6 Mark II. Most Canon DSLRs. Canon PowerShot SX70 HS, G5 X Mark II, G7 X Mark III.
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.
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