Sparkbooth Photo Booth Software News

This is the first release of the 7.1 beta. New features include:

• Display QR code for photos uploaded via Send to Account. QR code works with following uploaders:
  • Facebook
  • Flickr
  • Giphy
  • Google Drive
  • Google Photos
  • Imgur
  • Shootproof
  • SmugMug
  • Tumblr
  • Twitter
• For DSLR, minimize the toggling off and on of live view
• Display on-screen keyboard for gateway screen (with option to disable if not needed)
• Separate timeout setting for decorate and drawing screen
• Update Google authenticator for OOB change. Affects Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos
• Custom uploader works with QR codes and supports JSON response Documentation
• Added photo overlays for mirror booth

Please download and give this beta a try and let me know if you find any issues.

Stay tuned for more updates and features.

Download Sparkbooth 7.1 Beta

Personal / Premium for Windows Personal / Premium for MacOS Canon DSLR for Windows Nikon DSLR for Windows Nikon DSLR for MacOS

Sparkbooth 7.0 is now available. To learn more about Sparkbooth 7, please read the new features, or release notes. You can also watch the video walk-through created by Joe of A1 Photo Booth.

This latest update also fixes webcam access for MacOS 11 (Big Sur). If you need to run Sparkbooth on MacOS 11, please install to this update.

Sparkbooth 7 has a free 30-day trial. If you purchased a Premium or DSLR license after February 1, 2020, your license will already unlock and activate Sparkbooth 7. If you purchased a license before, you can upgrade your license to the current version to use with Sparkbooth 7.

Download Sparkbooth 7.0

Personal / Premium for Windows Personal / Premium for MacOS Canon DSLR for Windows Nikon DSLR for Windows Nikon DSLR for MacOS

Today we are releasing the early beta for Sparkbooth DSLR Beta for Nikon on MacOS.

The beta also includes all the new 7.0 features. Canon cameras are not currently supported for MacOS, but we are looking into it. Supported Nikon DSLR models:

Nikon 1 V3, Nikon D3, D3X, D4S, D5, D6 ^* D90, D300, D300S, D500, D600, D610, D700, D750, D780 ^* D800, D810, D850, D5000, D5100, D5200, D5300, D5500, D5600, D7000, D7100, D7200, D7500, z6, z7 z50 ^*

^* Supported by camera component but unverified. If you have this camera model and it works for you, please let us know.

Download Sparkbooth Nikon DSLR Beta for MacOS

Sparkbooth 7.0 beta is now available. This release focuses on the new GIF Booth mode and virtual props.

You can now configure Sparkbooth to lets guests select the photo or GIF booth using the new selection start screen

With GIF Booth mode, you can configure Sparkbooth to create GIFs with multiple frames like the rewind example above.

New virtual props have been added to Sparkbooth 7 as a replacement for actual props. Guest can decorate their photo using the virtual props or customize with your own images.

If you have configured Sparkbooth to generate GIFs from the photo booth photos, guests can select which image to upload with the new upload selection screen.

Sparkbooth 7 integrates with background removal services like Gadbooth and Remove.bg to automatically remove backgrounds without using a green screen.

Use Snap Camera with Sparkbooth as another option for virtual props. Sparkbooth can send key presses to Snap Camera to automatically change lens for each photo.

Multi-printer support. Sparkbooth will automatically cycle through multiple printers for printing. Or send duplicate strip layouts to specific printers configured for cutting.

New features and changes to 7.0 include:

• GIF Booth mode to record multi-frame GIFs including rewind or boomerang GIFs
• Display Photo Booth and GIF Booth selection screen to allow guests to select mode
• New virtual props and stickers. Or use your own images to create your own sets of props
• Separate upload settings for GIF verses JPEG/PNG. Some uploaders do not work with GIFs
• Separate photo album/kiosk settings for GIF verses JPEG/PNG. For example, no print option for GIFs
• Decorate screen to allow guests to draw or apply virtual props on individual photos
• Email or texting input screen displays image to be sent
• Customizable button and screen title font and color
• Snap Camera hotkey sets to automatically change Snap Camera lens per photo
• Multi-printer support including sending duplicate photo layouts to printers setup for cutting
• Redesigned, reorganize, and streamlined settings dialogs

Sparkbooth 7 has a free 30-day trial. If you purchased a Premium or DSLR license after February 1, 2020, your license will already unlock and activate Sparkbooth 7. If you purchased a license before, you can upgrade your license to the current version to use with Sparkbooth 7.

Please note: All new features are only available for Premium and DSLR licenses. This is a beta so test before using for your events. If you find any issues or have questions, please send us an email.

Download Sparkbooth 7.0

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Today Sparkbooth 6.1 is officially released from beta.

New features and changes to 6.1 include:

• Updated embedded web browser used to a modern version. Sparkbooth is no longer dependent on the version of Internet Explorer installed. Several services like SmugMug, Flickr, and Tumblr, no longer support Internet Explorer, so this fixes sign in for these services.
• Updated for MacOS 10.15 (11.0 Big Sur compatibility coming) Catalina. Previous versions of Sparkbooth will not run on MacOS 10.15 (11.0 Big Sur compatibility coming) or later.
• Improved webcam quality on MacOS.
• Guests can select photo layouts of different photo size. For example, on the selection screen - guests can select either a portrait or square photo layout.
• Added Telnyx and Vonage (formerly Nexmo) texting services to send photos to your guest's mobile devices.
• Improved sticker drag, scale and rotate controls for the drawing screen
• For Sparkbooth DSLR Canon, added support for new camera models including EOS RP, EOS Kiss X10 / EOS Rebel SL3 / EOS 250D / EOS 200D II, PowerShot G7X Mark III / PowerShot G5X Mark II, EOS M6 Mark II / EOS 90D, EOS M200.

To update or install 6.1, please download from the download page.

The recent Sparkbooth 6.1 update allows guests to select photo layouts of different photo sizes. Previously, guests could only select photo layouts of the same photo size (square, widescreen, portrait, etc.). Some changes that were made to allow this to happen:

• The list of photo layouts is no longer separated by photo size. It is now one long list of layouts.
• Under settings, you can filter photo layouts by photo size to help find a layout, but the list of favorite layouts still includes all photo sizes. If you want guests to only be able to select layouts of a single photo size type, you will have to un-favorite all the layouts of the other photo sizes.
• In the photo layout lists, the name of the layout is followed by the photo size, paper size, and then orientation.
• Under camera settings, the rotate camera settings is visible and applied regardless of the current photo size of the photo layout. Previously, rotating the camera only worked for portrait photo sized photo layouts. You can also select the photo size from camera settings to help position and adjust the camera for the various photo sizes.
• It is recommended that you use the photo layout selection screen instead of the on-screen button since the user interface will change proportion to the photo size of the layout you have selected. If you use the button, the button will move as the proportion of the screen changes.

Download 6.1 Beta:

• Windows
• Mac
• Windows Canon DSLR
• Windows Nikon DSLR

This is the first release of the 6.1 beta.

The web browser view has been updated to a modern web browser standard. Previously for the Windows version, Sparkbooth used Internet Explorer web browser component for this. Many web sites, like SmugMug, Flickr, and Tumblr, are no longer supporting Internet Explorer. With this update, you will be able to sign into those web services without opening an external web browser. The new web view browser also has the benefit of signing out of Facebook and other services much faster.

The Mac version of Sparkbooth for this update is now 64-bit. With the upcoming MacOS Catalina release, 32-bit applications will no longer work on Mac.

Please download and give this beta a try and let me know if you find any issues.

Stay tuned for more updates and features.

Download 6.1 Beta:

• Windows
• Mac
• Windows Canon DSLR
• Windows Nikon DSLR

With the latest Sparkbooth 6 update for Premium and DSLR licenses, stickers can be moved, resized, and rotated by guests. When a sticker is placed on the photo, the sticker will have touch controls for moving, resizing and rotating the sticker. Works great for applying virtual props to photos.

To allow guests to move, resize and rotate stickers, go to the Layout Editor and select the drawing area on the layout, and in the properties dialog enable "Make draggable". If the "Make draggable" settings is disabled, the stickers will be applied to the photo immediately instead of being movable.

Sparkbooth 6 also comes with a set of image set of virtual props. In the stickers list, select "Props" to enable these new stickers.

Enjoy!

Check Out Sparkbooth 6

Sparkbooth DSLR 6 has been updated to support additional Canon and Nikon cameras.

Sparkbooth DSLR for Canon now supports EOS 5DS, EOS 5DS R, EOS 7D Mark II, EOS 80D, EOS Kiss M / EOS M50, EOS R, 1D C, EOS-1D Mark III, EOS-1D Mark IV, 1D X, EOS-1D X Mark II, EOS-1Ds Mark III, and PowerShot SX70 HS.

Sparkbooth DSLR for Nikon added support for D850, D5600, D7500, z6, and z7

Check Out Sparkbooth DSLR 6

The Sparkbooth store and licensing server has been updated to support multiple languages including English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. The new server will also send out license and activation emails in those languages. By default, everyone who already has a license is defaulted to English. Any newly purchased licenses will be set to one of the supported languages base on their web browsers locale. If you want to have the email notification language changed, please contact us.

Also please update soon to the latest versions of Sparkbooth 4, 5, and 6 which support the new licensing server. You will soon be unable to activate or validate your license unless you have updated.