New Baseball theme and layouts for Sparkbooth 3.8. Just in time for baseball season!
Sparkbooth Photo Booth Software News
Just in time for March Madness, Sparkbooth now includes new themes and layouts for Basketball and Soccer! Also new to Sparkbooth 3.8:
- Scaled up 4 x 6 layouts to 1200 x 1800px. Your existing backgrounds and overlays will continue to work. If you update them to the new size, they will look better when printed.
- Switch Twitter uploaders to new Twitter service. The old service will be shutoff soon.
- Improved Facebook login to only allow login
Major update to the standalone Sparkbooth Photo Kiosk beta application. Lots of performance and interface improvements. Check it out! Please give it a try, and send your feedback.
- Added local images caching
- Improved folder monitoring
- Prevent browsing with Facebook upload
- Added Basketball theme
Updates are now available for both Sparkbooth Layout Creator and Photo Kiosk. Both these applications are part of the Sparkbooth Commercial Suite of applications, and are great complements to Sparkbooth. If you have an Commercial license you can use your activations to unlock them.
Sparkbooth Layout Creator is a visual editor for creating your own layouts to use in Sparkbooth. You can create layouts for a variety of paper sizes, photos, and customize the background and overlay images. This update is the initial 1.0 release. Changes include cleaned up UI components, and added option to toggle guidelines that divide the paper vertically and horizontally.
Sparkbooth Photo Kiosk allows you to setup a separate station for your guests to browse, print, and upload photos to Facebook or Twitter taken by your photo booth. Just network your photo booth and kiosk computers together, and point Sparkbooth Photo Kiosk at the shared folder where your photo booth saves photos. This minor update improves the text and instructions.
New Easter theme and layouts are now available in Sparkbooth. This update also includes:
- Tweak layout of login and prompt screens
- Fix color filter selection and reset
Check out A1 Photo Booth's "Unofficial Sparkbooth Layout Library". Joe has created this site as central place where Sparkbooth users can browse, download, share the layouts they have created. There are layout backgrounds, overlays, and SBL files created with the Sparkbooth Layout Creator.
Please leave Joe some feedback or thank him if you find it useful.
**UPDATE**: Joe has added How To Instructions and a place to upload your layouts
Sparkbooth Photo Album Kiosk is a standalone application for creating a separate station where your guests can browse, print, share on Facebook/Twitter, or email photos taken from your photo booth. Just share your photo booth computer's photos folder with your kiosk computer, and your guests can get prints and share photos without stopping your photo booth.
Check out Epic Party Booth's article on their experiences with setting up a separate print and upload kiosk.
If you are currently using the "Photo Album Kiosk" mode in Sparkbooth, please take a look at this beta. The "Photo Album Kiosk" mode will be removed from Sparkbooth, and you will be required to use this application. The setup is also much easier with the standalone version.
Just in time for your Oscar Night party this weekend! Sparkbooth now includes a Hollywood Award theme and layouts.
Sparkbooth maintenance update changes include:
- Optimized several themes to improve CPU usage. If you were experiencing slow downs with some themes, please update.
- Added camera setting to flip video vertically. Some Windows 8 laptop webcam are sending video upside down. Go to Camera settings and check "Flip vertically" to correct the video
- Fixed saving of Custom Uploader settings
- Fixed urls in help links
- Improved Mac update installer
_Feb 18, 2013 Update_. Additional update to add themed widescreen layouts, fix settings import/export for multi-byte characters, fix rendering of preview layouts after changing photo size, and fix database layout update problem.
New beta update for Sparkbooth Layout Creator. Changes in 0.9 include:
- Rotatable photos (Requires Sparkbooth 3.7 to import)
- Multi-select photos. Use Shift +click
- Copy and paste photo selection, Use ctrl + C and ctrl + V
- Alignment guides
- Add EULA and privacy policy
- Add update installer
Please post your questions and issues to the Sparkbooth Layout Creator support site.