Breeze apps offer unparalled creative control over what guests see and experience at your booth and sharing kiosks.
I’ve just added a new tutorial to the website to help DSLR Remote Pro, Kiosk and Webcam Photobooth users change the colors of the keyboard screens used for email and text based sharing.
Find Changing the colors of keyboard screens here
© Breeze Systems 2022
Breeze Booth (Webcam+Windows) 2.6 aka Webcam Photobooth was released today.
This release adds QR code based touch free operation and sharing, and support for the latest email security protocols
Offer your clients totally hands free operation and a better guest experience with contactless data collection, touchless start, and fast hygenic sharing.
Guests type their email address or cell phone number once into their smart phone, generating a unique QR code they use to power the booth and send emails and texts. Fast, simple, hygenic. Genuine contactless booth operation.
Turning the QR code concept on it’s head, you can also display a QR code on your sharing screen for guests to scan with their smart phone. Use this to direct guests to your online gallery for immediate social sharing.
Google changed the requirements for authenticating Gmail emails in 2020. Gmail users now need to ‘authenticate’ ie approve third party applications which send emails from their gmail accounts.
Adding support for Gmail Authentication to Webcam Photobooth means you can use Gmail to share photos from the booth. More
You may be familiar with Gmail authentication, but it’s quite likely you never heard of Transport Layer Security (TLS) before.
Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a protocol used to send communications securely over computer networks. Many ISPs send emails using simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP), and SMTP emails use transport layer security (TLS).
A growing number of ISPs require TLS version 1.2, so we have added support for this to Webcam 2.6
By adding support for TLS 1.2 to Webcam 2.6, emails from the booth still work as and when your ISP decides it’s a requirement.
Note TLS 1.2 is also supported in DSLR Remote Pro, Kiosk and Hub. More
Webcam Photobooth 2.6 is a free upgrade for all registered users who purchased Webcam Photobooth after 1st July 2021. Customers with older licenses need to buy an upgrade license to use this release.
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© Breeze Systems July 2022
My all time favorite comment in the Breeze Facebook group began
Anything with more processing power than a potato can generally run Breeze.
It’s absolutely true that you can run a stills Breeze photo booth on a low powered computer, although we don’t support the King Edward or Yukon Gold.
The same poster added
…I’m not doing gifs or videos, just photo layouts and prints.
Which was a sensible caveat. Before choosing your computer, think how it will be used.
Videos, burst GIFs, photos with filters, background removal and other effects run much better on a more powerful machine.
We have added a new page to the website Choosing a computer for your photo booth.
This page replaces one of our most popular blog posts and includes advice about hardware requirements for processing videos quickly. This is probably the most demanding task for a photo booth computer.
Have a great weekend,
Sue
© Breeze Systems 2022
Breeze apps offer unparalled creative control over what guests see and experience at your booth. The power and flexibility of touch screen actions are key to this experience.
When Breeze Booth apps are powered by touch screens, touch screen actions control what happens when a guest touches the screen.
I have added a new tutorial to the website to help DSLR Remote Pro, Multi-Camera, Webcam Photobooth & Flipbook Photobooth users use these actions to take control of the guest interface. Find Customizing Breeze Screens here
Breeze profiles are unique and powerful building blocks you can use to create simple multi choice menus through to complex choice based scenarios.
Use profiles to create multi-language booths, choose between different print layouts or add an element of surprise.
Profiles add random animations and effects to mirrors and conventional booths.
The Breeze website has three new tutorials explaining how to use profiles. They are written for Booth (DSLR +Windows) aka DSLR Remote Pro, and can be adapted for use with Booth (Webcam+Windows) aka Webcam Photobooth.
Getting started takes you step by step through using profiles to build a menu from which guests choose a print layout.
Use the same approach to offer a choice of green screen experience or background removal.
Find Getting Started with Profiles here
Random profiles can be used to add excitment and interest to a booth or mirror. Vary the animations and audible comments in magic mirrors, surprise guests by placing them in different environments (AI background removal or green screen), and build wheel of fortune booths.
Note: You need to use random profiles to randomly change your screens and create menus. There is a simpler way to offer random print and GIF designs, which you can find here
Find Part 2 – Random Effects here
The first two Profiles tutorials explain how to create a menu based booth and one switching randomly between different profiles.
Breeze Profiles Part 3 starts by running through common problems using profiles, then moves on to building a Choose or Surprise Me structure.
Find Part 3 – Choose and Surprise me & Trobuleshooting Profiles here
Many thanks to Steve Bliesner for sharing the multi-language menu featured at the start of this post.
© Breeze Systems 2021
You can find four new photo booth tutorials about sharing emails and texts on the Breeze website.
Texting from Breeze runs through sending text messages via Twilio, including
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
DSLR Remote Pro emails Part 2 focuses on efficient sharing at large and busy events, and sharing statistics. Part 2 runs through
Emails from Breeze – adding your account details is a beginners guide to adding email account details
Find these and other tutorials on the website here
Sue
© Breeze Systems 2021
It’s important that guests cannot exit your photo booth screens, but you need a controlled way out.
When the booth has a keyboard attached just hit the Escape key from the Breeze Ready screen.
To exit using the touch screen, you need a hidden button. Ideally combine this with password protection.
This page explains how to add a hidden exit to both DSLR Remote Pro and Webcam Photobooth. Add the exit command to your touch screen settings.
(1) Start the program and go to the touch screen settings for your Ready screen. There will be a short pause before you see the next screen:
Right click anywhere on this screen to show the current screen and add new actions.
Actions make something happen when the screen is touched in a particular area. This screen already has actions to start the booth and switch between color and black & white. We are going to add a new action to exit the Ready screen.
(2) Select Add Action
(3) Choose the action Exit Full screen photobooth from the drop down list
(4) Drag and drop the action to a convenient location. Use an empty corner of your screen for hidden buttons. Guests won’t see them but you and your staff will find them easily.
(5) Right click again and choose Exit
6) Add a password in case a guest guesses the location of your button, or touches it by mistake.
Remember to save your changes as you leave each screen.
Your Ready screen looks exactly the same, there is no clue that the button exists:
Anyone finding the secret button the can’t exit the booth without knowing the exit password I added at (6) .
Touch screen actions are powerful tools which give Breeze programs enormous flexibility. Use them to access the reprint selection screen, an information or T&C screen, add choices using profiles and much more.
© Breeze Systems 2020
Thanks to Steve Bliesner & Photo Booth Guys Australia for letting us share this video of their latest activation for Amazon.
Steve writes
Working in harmony to create high end activations that go out for, not $100-200 an hour.. but $1000 – $ 2000 an hour.
I used every trick in the Breeze book to pull this one off.
Breeze for iPad was running a very custom survey to collect data on guests, to determine what Drag Queen they would be and what personalised text they wanted on their GIF and Print. Additionally, guests entered their email address (so they didn’t have to use a sharing station later).
That data was sent via Breeze Hub, to Breeze Kiosk, where a QR code had been generated, and was then scanned in via a barcode reader, by our staff, in to Breeze Webcam.
Webcam had a customised interface that was live streamed to two large screens… (that masked any sensitive information and removed any interface control elements).
With one scan, that QR code kicked off the session, auto chose the chosen Drag Queen, personalised their print and GIF and emailed the image to the guest.
There is only one company that makes software that allows people like you and me to do stuff like this.
Meet Steve at the Breeze stand (#1113) at Photo Booth Expo next week.
Snap Chat has an awesome library of virtual props or ‘lenses’. Did you know that you can use these lenses to add an incredible variety of virtual props to Breeze Booth (Webcam +Windows) aka Webcam Photobooth?
Check out our new Snap Camera tutorial to learn more.
This tutorial walks you through integrating Snap Camera with Webcam Photobooth to add amazing 3D ‘lenses’ (virtual props) to your photos, GIFs and videos.
Chris has also updated the Webcam_Snap_Camera.ahk script to add a shortcut showing the toolbar position, and improved the sending of shortcut keys.
Previously known as Webcam Photobooth, this Windows app turns a webcam into an event photo booth, creating fun GIFs, prints and videos. Webcam Photobooth is a one-off purchase costing just US $175*, and includes one year’s free upgrades.
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*Price valid at time of writing, and excludes any tax due.
Breeze Systems February 2020
We have released two upgrades to Breeze Booth, Hub and the Event Editor in the last few weeks. These are free upgrades to anyone using these apps.
Find a quick summary of the changes to Breeze Booth for iPad, Event Editor and Hub here:
v1.0.6 also fixes an issue selecting manual exposure in the camera settings, and an AirPrint issue where only the first session was printed.
Event Editor 1.3.3 also fixes an issue with the default gif_background.jpg image not being added to animated GIFs
Hub 1.1.1 also fixes an issue cropping JPEG attachments when emailing photos
The new Hub statistics tool can display statistics of sessions and shares from your booths. Hub works with both Breeze Booth for iPad and our Windows based photo booth apps.
Link your iPads to Hub to see
*Hub statistics show SMTP emails, and texts shared using Twilio.
** iOS devices only
Copy and paste data from the Hub statistics page into spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel to create graphs for corporate clients.
The survey data tool can create a report showing survey responses from Breeze Booth for iPad and our Windows based photo booth apps.
You can also copy and paste data from the Hub survey page into spreadsheets to create graphs for corporate clients.
There’s no charge to upgrade to the latest versions of Breeze Booth for iPad, Hub and the Event Editor. Download all three apps here
© Breeze Systems December 2019
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