New beta update 4.2.27 enables guest green screen selection. You can change backgrounds by enabling the keyboard shortcut, on-screen button, or selection screen. See release notes.
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New beta update 4.2.10 enables user surveys in photo kiosk mode so you can collect names, emails, telephone, or comments before printing or uploading photos. You can enable this new feature under Photo Kiosk Settings, then select Prompts. See release notes.
You can download the beta below. Note: this beta also include the new green screen feature, photo kiosk counters, and photo kiosk mailing lists.
New beta update 4.2.6 enables email subscriptions with MailChimp in photo kiosk mode. You can enable MailChimp subscriptions under the Email settings, or from the Send Photo Later queue. See release notes.
You can download the beta below. Note: this beta also include the new green screen feature and photo kiosk counters.
New beta update 4.2.6 enables counters in photo kiosk mode. You can use counters to track uploads and prints, and actions like notifications, disabling printing, or closing the kiosk when counter limits are reached. Counters can be viewed under Settings > Counters, or by pressing ctrl-4 from the main screen. To learn more about counters watch our short tutorial. See release notes.
You can download the beta below. Note: this beta also include the new green screen feature.
We are releasing the beta for green screen (chroma key) for Sparkbooth users to try out. The green screen feature is for Premium license users only. Please review the Sparkbooth Green Screen instructions and setup tips. See release notes. You can download the beta below:
- Start screens. Option to replace on-screen button with separate screens to select photo layouts, photo effects, and screen overlays
- Cover screen options to display a start image or slideshow of photos. Use this for Sparkbooth DSLR to turn off LiveView in between session
- Update Facebook log in screen and uploader to Facebook's 2.0 service
- Post to Facebook event page
- Photo layout reset options to select next or random layout for next guest
- Twilio SMS can now send photo links uploaded to you Facebook, SmugMug, or Flickr accounts
- New Mogreet MMS and SMS uploader
- New ZenFolio uploader
- Send Photo Later can throttle uploads due for services with rate limits
- Send all photos to an account email. Great for websites with "post by email" photo galleries like SquareSpace or Wordpress
- Reset Layout Editor customizations for a photo layout - removing any images and text objects
- Doubled limit of image and text customizations for Personal license users
- Added counters for Facebook, Twitter, emailing, SMS
- Submit emails to MailChimp from Send Photo Later queue
- Keyboard enabled prints count on print prompt screen using arrow keys
- Hide photo layouts
- Workaround for Twitter login service changes
- Click to update from notification
- Name and re-order counter by dragging and dropping in list
- Fix Mac Developer ID for Mac installs
- Other optimizations and fixes
Sparkbooth DSLR 4.1 includes all the above plus:
Article updated July 3, 2014 with latest changes
Please help test the Sparkbooth & DSLR 4.1 beta. It includes many fixes, optimizations, and some new features including:
- Start screens. Option to replace on-screen button with separate screens to select photo layouts, photo effects, and screen overlays
- Cover screen options to display a start image or slideshow of photos. Use this for Sparkbooth DSLR to turn off LiveView in between session
- Update Facebook log in screen and uploader to Facebook's 2.0 service
- Post to Facebook event page
- Photo layout search in photo layout settings to quickly find the layout you want to use
- Photo layout reset options to select next or random layout for next guest
- Twilio SMS can now send photo links uploaded to you Facebook, SmugMug, or Flickr accounts
- Send Photo Later can throttle uploads due for services with rate limits
- Send all photos to an account email. Great for websites with "post by email" photo galleries like SquareSpace or Wordpress
- Reset Layout Editor customizations for a photo layout - removing any images and text objects
- Doubled limit of image and text customizations for Personal license users
- Added counters for Facebook, Twitter, emailing, SMS
- Submit emails to MailChimp from Send Photo Later queue
- Keyboard enabled prints count on print prompt screen using arrow keys
- Hide photo layouts
- Workaround for Twitter login service changes
- Click to update from notification
- Name and re-order counter by dragging and dropping in list
- Other optimizations and fixes
Sparkbooth DSLR 4.1 includes all the above plus:
This is a beta release, so please test before using at a real event! The beta will replace your existing install of Sparkbooth 4, and use your existing activation.
The new Counters feature is allows you to tracks the number of prints, sessions, and uploads, and can be used to trigger some actions when those counters hit a set limit like to closing the photo booth or disabling printing. Here is a short view explaining this feature
There are also a couple new photo effects
A new stand in screen overlay
Complete list of changes in this update:
- Print, session, upload counters with actions
- Add pop art and comic book photo effect
- Start session with presentation remote
- Send It Later queue filters based on selected uploader
- Sent It Later now separate tab in Photo Kiosk
- Send It Later SMS more accessible in Photo Kiosk
- Submit emails to mailing list (MailChimp) from Send It Later
- Added new stand in screen overlays
- Ding sound plays on reprint
- Sort screen overlays by favorites
- About status includes Send to Account, Send to Guest, and Send Photo Later
- Hide buttons if no text is set
- Fix on screen keyboard issues with Pinterest
- Fix camera setting import
- Fix session freezing due to camera error
- Add enable mailing list setting so you can disable mailing list submission without logging out of MailChimp
- Facebook uploader should check for Create Content permission for page
- [DSLR] Detect DSLR settings for better warnings
- [DSLR] Fix disabling sound effect when shooting with DSLR
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
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
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.
