Breeze Kiosk

Photos capture beautiful memories so having a photo booth at an event is bound to build up queues of participants wanting to have their photos taken. To reduce the waiting time, it is highly important to use applications that allow people to get a hold of their photos as quickly as possible. Designed to accompany the main photo booth software, Breeze Kiosk provides a touchscreen kiosk for photobooth users to share, email, or print their pictures quickly.

Configuring Breeze Kiosk is not difficult, but there is one thing you have to remember. Since the kiosk has to run on another computer than the photobooth software, the two workstations will have to share the photos. In other words, you will have to share the folder where photos are saved and configure Breeze Kiosk to monitor it.

Aside from the monitored directory, Breeze Kiosk also displays a summary of all the other configuration settings within its main window. Details regarding the used printer are displayed, along with information about the email address, MMS number, Facebook and Twitter accounts, as well as other slideshow and display options. To launch the touchscreen interface, the Start button must be pushed.

The application's settings enable the photobooth operator to decide upon the image types to scan for (JPEG, GIF, MP4, and MOV are the supported formats) and the actions that can be performed via the touchscreen interface. The application can be configured to reveal both thumbnails of the photos and the enlarged picture. Users can print images or send them via email, send SMS and MMS messages, or upload the pictures to the Facebook timeline or Twitter directly.

When in idle mode, Breeze Kiosk can play a slideshow containing photos in a separate location. Options such as the slideshow transition mode, the time interval, the offset, title, and advertisements can be customized.

Breeze Kiosk is an interesting piece of software for photobooth owners, enabling them to offer their clients a better experience and bring additional value to their business. To ensure high rendering speed and optimized playback, the application features a caching system both for images and thumbnails displayed by the touchscreen interface.