If you are lucky enough to be planning to attend BoothCon in Brisbane next January head over to their website and book your ticket today.
Steve Bliesner will be running a free Breeze Masterclass Mastering Breeze for Ipad and Iphone on the Wednesday afternoon. Justin tells me that after just 2 days the class is 50% full, and he expects it to sell out soon.
Breeze Booth for iPad
Launched in March, Breeze Booth for iPad is a powerful photo booth app that lets you create GIFs, print digital images and design custom interfaces and experiences across multiple iOS devices. A perfect fit for fixed installations, roaming and stationary devices at events.
Custom interfaces and experiences
Design unique, custom interfaces/user experiences and quickly deploy them to a fleet of iPads using trusted cloud services (Dropbox, iCloud etc) or via your own private and secure web servers.
Set up events
Enjoy centralised set up of events, interfaces and image branding via a handy Windows-based app. Team up with Breeze Event Editor to professionally control and customise each area of your event.
Standalone capability and redundancy
If necessary your events can run offline, using your own private, secure sync and image sharing servers.
There is just over a week until the third Photo Booth Show starts.
The business expo for the Photo Booth Industry in Europe will be back in Leicester, England on 14th & 15th October. This is a great opportunity to see what’s new, learn from the experts and network with other boothers.
Buy tickets for both conference and trade show through the Photo Booth Show website.
Visit the Breeze stand
Come and meet us at the Breeze stand. Discover how well Breeze works with roaming and fixed devices, find out what the latest apps offer your business.
Breeze offers unparalleled creative control and flexibility over what users see and experience when they use your photo booth. From the simple to the extraordinary complex. No other software comes close to matching Breeze’ level of customisation on Windows or iOS devices.
Breeze Booth for iPad
Launched in February, Breeze Booth for iPad is the powerful photo booth app that lets you create GIFs, print digital images and design custom interfaces and experiences across multiple iOS devices. A perfect fit for fixed installations, roaming and stationary devices at events.
Custom interfaces and experiences
Design unique, custom interfaces/user experiences and quickly deploy them to a fleet of iPads using trusted cloud services (Dropbox, iCloud etc) or via your own private and secure web servers.
Set up events
Enjoy centralised set up of events, interfaces and image branding via a handy Windows-based app. Team up with Breeze Event Editor to professionally control and customise each area of your event.
Standalone capability and redundancy
If necessary your events can run offline, using your own private, secure sync and image sharing servers.
Breeeze Booth for Windows (aka DSLR Remote Pro)
Breeze Booth for Windows is a highly configurable, yet simple to use photo booth application. Easy to configure for small operators and scalable for organisations running hundreds of photo booths across multiple cities and countries.
Breeze Booth for Windows offers unparalleled creative control and flexibility over what users see and experience when they use your photo booth. From the simple to the extraordinary complex. No other software comes close to matching Breeze Booth for Windows level of customisation.
Looking forward to catching up with long term friends and making new ones,
Display virtual prop text correctly both in live view and outputs
Improved AirPrint support
Support for iPadOS and iOS 13
Vary the props in your GIFs and photos
You can find a tutorial outlining how to add virtual props here, and more details in the online manual.
Display virtual text correctly in both live view and outputs
Photo booth live view is usually mirrored so that guests see themselves as they would in a mirror. This causes problems with text in virtual props because the text is also mirrored. Breeze Booth 1.0.4 solves this problem.
Download the Windows based companion apps Event Editor and Hub here
Can I try this for free?
Yes! Download and try Breeze Booth from the App Store, and companion Apps Event Editor and Breeze Hub from our website. There’s no charge for this. You don’t even need to buy a license to create your own events. Just download and install Breeze Booth Event Editor 1.3.1 onto a Windows PC.
* Devices must run iPadOS, iOS 13 or iOS 12.
How to buy a Breeze Booth subscription
Breeze Booth subscriptions cost just US $49 /month or US $440 /per year. Open an account at breezebooth.net before you buy a subscription.
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Guests can rotate, expand and shrink the icons. You can restrict them to decorating part of the print, and even prevent them from defacing part of it if your clients are sensitive.
Webcam Photobooth 2.5 is a free upgrade for all registered users who purchased Webcam Photobooth after 18th September 2018. Customers with older licenses need to buy an upgrade license to use this release.
Breeze Hotfolder Prints 1.8 (released on Monday) includes a new Gallery Uploader, and the ability to add logos to prints.
What is Breeze Hotfolder?
Hotfolder is a suite of invaluable tools for event photographers and photo booth operators. From tools that help format images, to specialist hashtag monitors and image uploaders, each tool is designed to save the user time and stress when it comes to managing a large batch of images.
Hotfolder monitors a folder for incoming images (JPEG and PNG), then automatically formats them for printing, saving and/or emailing. Images can be sourced from a tethered camera, a cloud drive (Dropbox etc), shared network folder or a folder on your PC.
New Gallery Uploader
Realtime uploading of photos, GIFs and videos to online sharing galleries
Logos provide a quick and easy way to add graphics to prints without using an image editor such as Photoshop. PNG and JPEG logos can be imported, moved, resized and rotated just like photos in the print layout.
For a quick video tour of the Print Layout Editor look here. NB To find Hotfolder’s Print layout editor start the program, go to Preferences, then select Custom LayoutSettings.
New tokens
{dateLess8h} prints today’s date less 8 hours
{captionNoURL} is used for extracting Twitter captions without the trailing URL
Why ‘date less 8 hours’? Use this token when events run past midnight, but you don’t want the images created after midnight to be stored under a different date.
SmugMug Uploader improvements
Improved handling of login access tokens
New option to save settings to file
Try for yourself
Hotfolder Prints 1.8 is a free upgrade for all registered users who purchased Hotfolder after 9th September 2018. Customers with older licenses need to buy an upgrade license to use this release.
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Partner information
The ability to upload to and download from third party applications such as SmugMug, Twitter and Instagram is subject to each third party concerned continuing to allow such interactions.
These features are tested before they are released but may cease to function or be removed without notice if the third party concerned no longer allows such interaction, or changes the method/protocol required.
Several of you want to include guests names on DSLR Remote Pro prints. This post shows you how.
You can either start from an existing design, or run the setup wizard to create something completely new. You then need to
Create a keyboard where guests are prompted to type in their names
Choose whether to enter names before or after taking the photos
Add a caption to your print layout showing the name
Updates 21 August 2019
Reprint note: Fast reprint runs off a copy of the original print layout (with the data guests have already entered )
Post updated to correct error adding guest details after taking photos.
Create the keyboard where guests enter their names
Go to Advanced Settings and select the Touchscreen Settings screen
On this screen, click the Test Keyboard button, then choose Message keyboard from the dropdown menu
Hold down the Shift and Ctrl keys and left click your mouse.
This will save five files to your photo booth images folder: message_keyboard.xml, message_keyboard_lowercase.tif, message_keyboard_lowercase_pressed.tif, message_keyboard_uppercase.tif, message_keyboard_uppercase_pressed.tif
Go to your PhotoboothImages folder and
delete these 4 tif files
rename message_keyboard.xml as keyboard.xml
My PhotoboothImages folder then looks like this:
Now open keyboard.xml in a text editor such as Microsoft Notepad (which comes free with Windows 10) and change the wording of the prompt from Please enter your message to Please enter your name (or whatever text you prefer).
Save your changes and close the text editor.
The edited version of keyboard.xml will build a touchscreen keyboard looking like this:
Advanced users: may wish to make other changes to the xml to customize this screen. See Collecting both guest names and a message below for an example.
Choose whether guests enter their names before or after taking the photos
You can control whether guests type in their names before or after taking the photos. Just select Email input at start of sequence or Email input after taking photos on the Touchscreen settings screen as below
Extra screen when collecting guest data after taking photos
If you choose to collect the information after the photos are taken, you need to add an extra screen to your PhotoboothImages folder called keyboard_input_ok.jpg. This will be displayed for a short time after guests enter their data and hit OK.
You can create this screen by taking a copy of a blank screen such as taking.jpg and renaming the copy.
So far we have created a screen for guests to enter their names. Now we need to adapt your print layout to add these names.
Add a caption to your print layout which displays these names on the print
Open the Print Layout Editor and right click anywhere on the print. Select Add caption
To display the guests names, your caption must include the token {user1_data}. Adjust the font, color, position and angle of the caption as usual:
When you run the booth the name(s) guests enter will replace {user1_data}
DSLR Remote Pro now counts the total number of emails, texts and tweets sent from the booth.
You can reset these counters between events. More details
Print logos placed over the print overlay
You have been able to add logos to your printswithoutusing Photoshop® or other image editors since v3.12. Many of you asked us to place these logos over the print overlay – so we have made this change in v3.14
Support for new camera
DSLR Remote Pro supports almost all Canon DSLR cameras, plus the mirrorless M50 and EOS RP.
DSLR Remote Pro 3.14 adds support for the new EOS 250D/Rebel SL3/EOS 200D II/EOS Kiss X10.
*Enabling guest print frames
Enable signing and drawing on prints in the usual way. (Select Advanced Settings, then Output Options Settings. Check the box marked Sign or draw on photos before printing, and OK as you leave.)
Your frames should be png images the same size in pixels as the print layout. Place them in the PhotoBoothImages folder for the event. The name of each frame must start frame_ as below:
Try DSLR Remote Pro 3.14 for yourself
DSLR Remote Pro 3.14 is a free upgrade for all registered users who purchased DSLR Remote Pro after 24th July 2018. Customers with older licenses need to buy an upgrade license to use this release.
Breeze Booth 1.0.3 was released on July 17th. What’s new?
Send text messages and emails with multiple attachmentsdirectly from the App
New camera controls for contrast, vibrance and saturation
Simple touch screen controls let guests zoom in/out and make images brighter or darker.
Logo overlay for animated GIFs.
Simpler sharing straight from the App
Share photos and GIFs directly from the Breeze Booth App by text (uses Twilio) or email.
Corporate clients will love having total control over email content and appearance. Email addresses and cell phone numbers are also hidden from later guests.
Emails can include multiple attachments – so you can share any combination of animated GIF/MP4, individual images and the print layout.
Breeze Booth 1.0.3 email with both individual images and slideshow GIF attached (courtesy of Photo Booth Guys)
(You no longer need to run Hub to send emails with both multiple attachments, or send SMS texts with Twilio.)
We’ve added three new slider controls for contrast, vibrance and saturation.
Saturation adjusts the strength of the colors, and vibrance adjusts the saturation while keeping pleasing skin tones. Use contrast to change the difference between light and dark colors.
Guest controlled zoom and brightness
Let your guests adjust zoom and exposure compensation (brightness) while protecting the full range of camera controls. Breeze Booth 1.0.3 adds touch screen actions to the ready and menu screens for both exposure compensation and digital zoom settings .
New branding overlay for GIFs
Quikcly add a branding overlay to burst and slideshow GIFs by simply including the png overlay in the screens folder. Call the overlay gif_logo_overlay.png for burst GIFs and slideshow_gif_logo_overlay.png for slideshow GIFs.
How do I upgrade to this release?
Breeze Booth 1.0.3, Breeze Booth Event Editor v1.3 and Breeze Hub v1.0 were released on 17th July and are free upgrades for all Breeze Booth customers.
Download the Windows based companion apps Event Editor and Hub here
Can I try this for free?
Yes! Download and try Breeze Booth and companion Apps Event Editor and Breeze Hub free of charge. You don’t even need to buy a license to create your own events. Just download and install Breeze Booth Event Editor 1.3 onto a Windows PC.
* Devices must run iOS 12. At time of writing (July 2019) Breeze Booth supports iPad Pro 11 and iPhone X series and well as iPads with 4:3 screens and iPhones with 16:9 screens
How to buy a Breeze Booth subscription
Breeze Booth subscriptions cost just US $49 /month or US $440 /per year. Open an account at breezebooth.net before you buy a subscription.
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