If your celebrating President's Day with a BBQ or party, here are a few photo booth prop ideas:
Sparkbooth Photo Booth Software News
- Added "Fomomatic" video filter for plastic toy camera-like photos for your own Lomography photo booth.
- Hide toolbar button option now hides all the time, not just on fullscreen
- Add favorite photo layout setting. Favorite photo layouts are sorted to top of list.
- Smoother snapshot transitions and animations
- Faster application initialization on start up
- Snapshot delay setting is now time between end of snapshot animation and start of voice prompt
- Video filter name is now displayed when switch by hotkey ctrl+K or cmd+K at start screen
The recent release of Sparkbooth allows photo uploads to Facebook Fan Pages that you administer. You can create pages around your interests, businesses, or anything. To setup a Facebook page:
- Sign into your Facebook account
- Go to Facebook Fan Pages and create your page
For more information on how to create Facebook Pages, see this helpful article.
Now you are ready to setup Sparkbooth to post photos to your Facebook page:
- Start Sparkbooth
- Press F1 to display Settings
- Select the Upload tab
- Select Facebook from the uploader list
- Click the "Login to Facebook" button and authorize Sparkbooth to upload to your account
- Select the Page in the "Upload To" list
- Click the OK button and you are ready to go. Photos will be uploaded and posted to your Page's Sparkbooth album (which you can rename) at the end of each photo session.
This is a beta feature so please let me know how it works for you and if you have any suggestions.
You have an account on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and your own Wordpress blog, and you want Sparkbooth to upload photos to all of these sites? I suggest you check out MobyPicture.com. MobyPicture provides a service to upload photos to all your accounts, when you post a photo to MobyPicture. Sparkbooth has uploaders that uses your MobyPicture or Twitter account to upload to MobyPicture. To add all your accounts to uploading in MobyPicture:
- To go MobyPicture.com
- Sign into your account
- Click the "services" link at the top of the page to add your Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Wordpress, and other accounts
- Start Sparkbooth
- Press F1 to display Settings
- Select the Upload tab
- Select "MobyPicture" or "MobyPicture Twitter" from the upload list. Use MobyPicture to sign in using your MobyPicture account username. Use MobyPicture Twitter, if you want to sign in using your Twitter account.
- Press the OK button and now photos will be uploaded to MobyPicture and from MobyPicture to your other accounts.
Changes in this release include
- Fix Facebook blank permissions page
- Add ability to upload to Facebook Pages (beta)
- Remove old Facebook uploader
- Add Posterous 2.0 API uploader
- Add MobyPicture 1.0 API uploader
- Rename MobyPicture Twitter authenticated uploader
Having trouble customizing a photo layout template for Sparkbooth? Send Harry an example of the layout you want customized and other images you want on your photo, and he will create your template for a small fee. You can check out samples of his work here. Please contact Harry at harry@hg-entertainment.com.
If you use the Facebook upload feature in Sparkbooth, you may have had problems signing into Facebook. Facebook recently made a change causing the permission page to display a blank white screen in Sparkbooth. There is a work around and fix available.
Paper and Cake have a great set of printable Valentine's Day photo booth props including signs, heart-shaped candies, lips, and more.
This is a maintenance release to improve printer setup:
- The Test button in the printer settings will now always display the print dialog. This should allow you to setup any printer specific settings that are not available on the regular printer setup dialog.
- When Sparkbooth starts with printing enabled, you can now setup printing or disable printing. If you choose printer setup, you can also display the print dialog after setup.
The Wedding Chicks have an online custom photo booth sign generator for weddings. Just select some colors and fill-in the date and names, press the button and you get a stylish photo booth printable sign. Enjoy.