Sparkbooth Photo Booth Software News

Sparkbooth 4 and DSLR has been updated. Changes since the initial release include:

• Add "Beach Ocean Scenes" screen overlays (see video above)
• Add on screen button labels
• Improved printer settings for clarity
• Improved prompt setting for clarity
• Fix on screen keyboard display for portrait screens
• Add Send to Twilio from Send It Later
• Prevent queueing of same data into Send It Later
• Fix telephone format mask prompt
• Unified prompts to prevent multiple prompts for same information
• Fix saving of telephone prompt to log
• Fix Send It Later queueing
• Fix max font size of Layout Creator text
• Select file dialogs opens from last folder
• Fix copy and paste ordering in Layout Creator
• Fix numeric stepper control to show integer values
• Fix widescreen photo layout rendering
• Other improvements and minor bugs squashed

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Additional changes for Sparkbooth DSLR Beta

• Improve handling of AF LiveView start-up and re-starts
• Add LiveView shutdown and timeout options
• Turn off LiveView when not being used
• Add LiveView Stand By start screen overlay
• Webcam photo or External flash camera settings options take without re-apply
• Add option to help trigger external flash
• Add support for Canon 70D

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In case you missed the Sparkbooth 4 webinar by Joe Connell of A1 Photo Booth, we have posted the video below. Joe walks through the new features in Sparkbooth 4 and demonstrates how easy it is to use the integrated Layout Creator for customizing your layouts. If you have questions about the webinar, please post them at the support site.

Sparkbooth is now even easier to use! Check out these new features:

• Easy layout customization with graphics and text objects
• Integrated Layout Editor to create your own layouts [requires Premium license]
• Integrated Photo Kiosk mode
• Start screen settings (ctrl-2)
• Send photos to guest and your account or page in the same session
• Twilio SMS and MMS uploader in photo booth and album view [requires Premium license]
• Pinterest uploader in photo booth and album view
• New screen overlays to display images over video and composite on photos
• Custom theme to use your own images in screen background.
• New themes like Fire, Pirate, Football
• New themed layouts for Pirate and Football
• Custom filenames
• Change start and prompt text font
• New countdown styles
• Count downs are positionable top, center, or bottom
• Make animated gifs [requires Premium license]
• Unfavorite all layouts by ctrl + Favorite button (cmd on Mac)
• In Photo Layout settings. Page Up and Down to select. Delete to delete selected
• In Layout Creator. Page Up and Down to select.
• Import and export handles layouts and screen overlays
• Change screen overlay shortcut to ctrl-O or with on-screen button
• All themes changed to use less memory
• Larger on screen keyboard

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Sparkbooth 4 is a paid upgrade. You can purchase an upgrade for $10 off for the month of November. If you purchased in the last 30-days, your license key will already work with Sparkbooth 4.

Learn more about Sparkbooth 4, sign up for the webinar on November 19, 2013 at 5:00p PST. We will walk you through all the new features. Space is limited, so sign up now to reserve your spot.

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Last week Facebook made a change to their sign in process that affected Sparkbooth's ability to upload photos to Facebook. Sparkbooth, Sparkbooth Photo Kiosk, and Sparkbooth DSLR have been updated to handle this change. Please update if you use the Facebook uploaders in any of those applications.

You asked for it and we listened. We're kicking off a crowdsource campaign and pre-selling licenses at $175 for our new Sparkbooth DSLR version - the next hot product in our line of photo booth software.

With the current beta, Sparkbooth DSLR connects to your camera via USB cable. Sparkbooth DSLR automatically connects to display LiveView video and takes photos from the camera. Early access licenses include activations on up to 3 computers, allows for commercial usage, unlocks commercial/premium features and works with the beta and released versions. View the rest of the new features here.

Join the campaign and be the first to get the new Sparkbooth software before release.

For questions, contact us at the Sparkbooth DSLR support site

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New graduation theme and layouts are now available in Sparkbooth 3.8.13. Other changes with this release:

• Cancelable count down
• Update callback url for Facebook, Twitter, and others
• Optimize printing
• Optimize previews

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Joe Connell is offering one-on-one Layout Creator Training via Skype Learn how to get the most out of the Layout Creator from the basics and beyond... and get creative.

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Sparkbooth 3.8.9 update is now available. This update allows you always send photos into the Send It Later queue regardless of the selected uploader. So you can select the one of the "Guest" uploaders to allow guests to post photos to their own Facebook or Twitter accounts. Then later after the event, you can upload all the queued photos to your Facebook page or other location.

To use this feature:

1. Go to Sparkbooth Settings
2. Go to Uploading and select "Guest Upload Chooser", "Guest Facebook", or "Guest Twitter"
3. Check the option at the bottom of to "Queue into Send It Later"

Now as photos are taken, guests will be given the option to upload to their Facebook or Twitter account, and the photo will be queued in "Send It Later". After the event, you can go to the "Send It Later" upload settings and upload photo to a Facebook page or other upload location.

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This is the release candidate for Sparkbooth Photo Kiosk. This application allows you to setup a separate kiosk for your guests to browse, print, and share photos from a shared folder. In addition, this release includes:

• Added photo rotation setting
• Fixed Twitter authorization
• Fixed date time label for cached files
• Fixed update flip animation

If you have a Sparkbooth Commercial license, you can use an activation to unlock Sparkbooth Photo Kiosk. Please give it a try and send your feedback.

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