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
Posts Tagged "themes"
New Baseball theme and layouts for Sparkbooth 3.8. Just in time for baseball season!
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
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
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.
Sparkbooth 3.7 update is now available! This release includes some new themes and matching layouts.
New Layouts
Valentines Theme
Birthday Theme
Wedding Theme
Changes in this release:
- Valentine's Day theme and photo layouts
- Wedding theme and photo layouts
- Birthday theme and photo layouts
- Photo Album mode buttons are now labeled (Print, Facebook, Twitter, and Email)
- Other minor fixes and optizations
Upgrade to Sparkbooth 3.7 from 3.5 or 3.6 by pressing the update link on the About screen, or press the Download button below.
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!
Facebook like dialog and Chinese New Year theme
Automatically follow Twitter account
Chinese New Year photo layouts
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 optizations 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
Winter Holiday Template 1
Winter Holiday Template 2
- 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".
Thanksgiving Template 1
Thanksgiving Template 2
This update adds a new Halloween theme and Witch voice to Sparkbooth. To enable, go to Settings > General > Theme > select "Halloween", and Settings > Voice > select "Witch". Hope you enjoy this new theme and matching photo layout background:
Halloween template for 2 x 2 Top, 4 x 6 Portrait
This update also includes a number of changes to the Photo Album:
- In Photo Album Kiosk, it displays a notification when the connection to a remote folder is not available. And will recover the connection when the remote folder is available again.
- New "Home" button on the Photo Album screen to help jump back to the first page with the most recent photos.
- New Photo Album maximum thumbnail setting (go to Settings > Photo Album). If you are experiencing lock ups, it could be too many photos are being loaded at once. Use this setting to reduce the number of thumbnails display which will use less memory and might prevent lock up issues