Sparkbooth Photo Booth Software News

Another quick update to the Sparkbooth Layout Creator. Update 0.6 includes

• Added resize grips to other photo corners, so you can resize in any direction
• Fixed photo selection issue on start
• Fixed photo jumping on move or resize

Please post your questions and issues to the Sparkbooth Layout Creator support site.

Just a quick update to the Sparkbooth Layout Creator. Update 0.5 includes

• New paper sizes based on the dye-sub printer reference at Photo Booth Owners
• New photos sizes are based on last selected or edited photo size
• New photos are now automatically selected
• Fix mislabeled tool tips
• Update message now shows changes

Please post your questions and issues to the Sparkbooth Layout Creator support site.

Announcing Sparkbooth 3.6! This update works with the Sparkbooth Layout Creator. Sparkbooth Layout Creator is a visual drag and drop editor for creating your own photo layouts / templates. The Layout Creator is free to all Commercial license customers. There are also new features for Consumer license customers, check out the change list below!

Changes in this release:

• Chinese New Year theme and photo layouts
• Hypnotic animated loading messages
• Cycle through different Twitter tweet texts. Under Captions setting for Twitter uploaders, separate tweet text by using ";". This will help with Twitter preventing tweets of the same value
• [Commercial] Guest Facebook upload can display Like dialog for your Facebook Page. After guests post the photo to their Facebook account, they can "Like" your Facebook Page. Increase fans for your Facebook page! This is a Commercial feature you can enable under Setting > Commercial. Do not forget there is already an automatic Twitter Follow option under Commercial settings!
• [Commercial] Import Sparkbooth Layout files created using Layout Creator. Try out the Sparkbooth Layout Creator now.
• Other minor fixes and optimizations.

Upgrade to Sparkbooth 3.6 from 3.5 by pressing the update link on the About screen, or press the Download button below.

Your New Year's Eve party is a great time to setup a photo booth using Sparkbooth. Here are some helpful tips and ideas for a successful New Year's Eve photo booth including general setup, props, and backdrops:

• Use the New Year's Eve theme and photo layout backgrounds in Sparkbooth 3.5
• Sparkbooth Setup Checklist
• DIY New Year's Eve Photo Booth Props
• Do not have time to create your own props? Check out these New Year's Photo Booth Props
• New Year's graphics for creating custom photo layouts
• DIY Photo Booth For Your NYE Party Guide
• Lowe's DIY New Year's Photo Booth Backdrop
• Oh Happy Day's DIY NYE Sequin Photo Booth
• Swerve's DIY New Year's Eve Photo Booth

Sparkbooth 3.5.51 update includes:

• New Years Eve theme
• Optimize Winter Holiday theme
• New photo layouts with backgrounds (New Years Eve, Winter Holiday, Thanksgiving, Halloween)
• [Commercial Only] Automatically follow Twitter account for Guest Twitter uploader
• New upload image

Sparkbooth 3.5.50 update includes:

• New Holiday Winter theme
• Send It Later is now an email option for the Photo Album. Great for sending emails later if you do not have an internet connection during the event.
• Import/export settings. Go to Settings > Commercial > scroll download to Import/Export Configurations. Use this to copy your Sparkbooth settings between computers. Note: Does not export save locations, layout backgrounds, layout overlays, camera selection, printer selection, custom voice mp3s.
• Auto create save subfolders. Go to Settings > Saving > check 'Create new subfolder per day'. Useful for automatically clearing photo album of previous day's photos.
• Enable printer setup on start up. Go to Settings > Printing > check 'Printer setup dialog on start'. Use this if you need to configure your printer using Sparkbooth's printer Setup and Test
• Add configuration links in Photo Album settings
• Do not disable email in Guest Upload Chooser if emailer is not ready

• New Fall/Thanksgiving Theme
• Photo Album sharing button replaced by separate Facebook, Twitter, and Email buttons
• Photo Album sharing settings moved to Settings > Photo Album > Sharing
• Fix Facebook upload login
• Do not display upload error on skip
• Fix video disconnect after switching themes
• Fix button position of prompts for small screens
• Fix cancel shortcut disabled if color shortcut was disabled
• Fix prompt form skipping

And here are a couple Thanksgiving backgrounds for the square "2 x 2 Top, 4 x 6 Portrait".

Sparkbooth 3.5.44 is now available for download. Changes include:

• Album button show thumbnail of last photo
• Resized layout preview to fit inbetween buttons
• MailChimp subscribe results logged to sparkbooth-mailchimp.txt
• Photo upload results logged to sparkbooth-upload.txt
• Fix display 'spacebar to begin' message on start up
• Fix virtual keyboard focus at end of text input
• Notifications can be formatted
• Will automatically initialize online services when computer goes online

Sparkbooth 3.5.43 is now available for download. Changes include:

• Fix Album kiosk mode getting stuck loading on start up
• Fix window is not clearing on start up for Mac
• Cancel during upload
• Add upload timeout setting for slow internet connections
• Add print margin padding settings
• Initialize MailChimp on start up

Sparkbooth 3.5.41 is now available for download. Changes include:

• Add Andy (up beat) and Bert (serious) voices
• Add automatic update
• Add help for layout setting
• Fix issue of printer settings behind Settings dialog
• Minor bug fixes