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Sparkbooth Changelog

What's new in Sparkbooth 7.1.58.0

Apr 2, 2024
  • Increase temporary print copies count font size
  • Temporary print copies count halved for split layouts
  • Fix Facebook sharing

New in Sparkbooth 7.1.56.0 (Mar 6, 2024)

  • Update translations

New in Sparkbooth 7.1.55.0 (Mar 6, 2024)

  • Add UnlimitedBG background removal
  • Application performs checks before checking for fullscreen

New in Sparkbooth 7.1.52.0 (Mar 6, 2024)

  • Updates to compile with Google authentication
  • Fixes to background removal service

New in Sparkbooth 7.1.51.0 (Dec 7, 2023)

  • Update Google Drive permissions and use Google picker for folder selection
  • Fix for error dialog for reset settings

New in Sparkbooth 7.1.50.0 (Dec 6, 2023)

  • Fix updating video frame to selected photo proportion

New in Sparkbooth 7.1.49.0 (Nov 14, 2023)

  • Improved Windows Nikon component
  • STMP verification no longer sends test email
  • Fix keyboard hander for Photo or GIF Booth mode selection screen

New in Sparkbooth 7.1.46.0 (Nov 2, 2023)

  • Add debug start script
  • Update support request information
  • Remove Twitter uploaders

New in Sparkbooth 7.1.44.0 (Oct 27, 2023)

  • Add DSLR take photo timeout setting
  • Update EULA and privacy policy screen controls

New in Sparkbooth 7.1.43.0 (Oct 17, 2023)

  • Add DSLR camera error delay setting
  • Shorten DSLR camera delay on error
  • Add clear and reset to mirror booth photo message settings

New in Sparkbooth 7.1.42.0 (Sep 22, 2023)

  • Add enable Photo Preview setting
  • Fix Gmail emailer for Asian and Cyrillic characters

New in Sparkbooth 7.1.40.0 (Sep 15, 2023)

  • Fix Snap Camera setting issue

New in Sparkbooth 7.1.39.0 (Sep 15, 2023)

  • Update support requests

New in Sparkbooth 7.1.37.0 (Sep 15, 2023)

  • Fix double clicking issue on selection screens
  • Update German translations
  • Fix mirror booth start issue
  • Fix GIF uploader authentication

New in Sparkbooth 7.1.35.0 (Mar 27, 2023)

  • Separate Send to Guest options for jpeg and GIFs
  • Fix Get Ready screen for DSLR using webcam

New in Sparkbooth 7.1.34.0 (Feb 27, 2023)

  • Add DNP QW410 paper sizes

New in Sparkbooth 7.1.33.0 (Feb 13, 2023)

  • Add PhotoRoom, Removal.ai, and Slazzer background removal services
  • Remove discontinued Snap Camera feature
  • Add font controls to animated text cover and screensaver dialog

New in Sparkbooth 6.1.88 (Feb 5, 2023)

  • Enable Windows Viewer printing for Windows 10 or later (may require running outside of Program Files folder)

New in Sparkbooth 7.1.32.0 (Jan 27, 2023)

  • Fix remove.bg service for Windows
  • Remove non-working Gadbooth service

New in Sparkbooth 7.1.31.0 (Jan 26, 2023)

  • Fix Twilio error logging

New in Sparkbooth 7.1.30.0 (Jan 22, 2023)

  • Fix Windows Viewer setup

New in Sparkbooth 7.1.29.0 (Jan 11, 2023)

  • Fix Windows Viewer print
  • Update album options list

New in Sparkbooth 7.1.28.0 (Dec 29, 2022)

  • Update translations

New in Sparkbooth 7.1.27.0 (Dec 28, 2022)

  • Flickr, SmugMug, and tumblr uses external web browser authentication

New in Sparkbooth 7.1.26.0 Beta (Nov 9, 2022)

  • For DSLR, minimize the toggling off and on of live view
  • Update Google authenticator for OOB change. Affects Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos
  • Display QR code for photos uploaded via Send to Account
  • Custom uploader works with QR codes and supports JSON response
  • Display on-screen keyboard for gateway screen (with option to disable if not needed)
  • Separate timeout setting for decorate and drawing screen
  • Added photo overlays for mirror booth

New in Sparkbooth 7.0.110.0 (Sep 18, 2022)

  • Remove themes control for mirror booth mode

New in Sparkbooth 7.0.109.0 (Sep 7, 2022)

  • Fix start screen photo and gif booth selection issue

New in Sparkbooth 7.0.108.0 (May 9, 2022)

  • Add DNP 4.5 x 6 and 4.5 x 8 paper sizes
  • Fix Telnyx uploader

New in Sparkbooth 7.0.107.0 (Apr 10, 2022)

  • Fix tumblr upload

New in Sparkbooth 7.0.106.0 (Feb 20, 2022)

  • Add 8 x 12 paper size in create new layout dialog

New in Sparkbooth 7.0.105.0 (Jan 18, 2022)

  • Fix some slider setting labels

New in Sparkbooth 7.0.104.0 (Dec 2, 2021)

  • Add new Instagram paper sizes

New in Sparkbooth 7.0.103.0 (Oct 31, 2021)

  • Fix display of EULA and privacy policy

New in Sparkbooth 6.1.84 (Oct 4, 2021)

  • Fix cover screen looping video playback

New in Sparkbooth 7.0.102.0 (Oct 3, 2021)

  • Fix cover screen looping video playback

New in Sparkbooth 7.1.9 Beta (Sep 9, 2021)

  • Display QR code for photos uploaded via Send to Account
  • For DSLR, minimize the toggling off and on of live view
  • Display on-screen keyboard for gateway screen (with option to disable if not needed)
  • Separate timeout setting for decorate and drawing screen

New in Sparkbooth 7.0.101.0 (Aug 9, 2021)

  • Fix Evernote authorization
  • Update button colors

New in Sparkbooth 7.0.99.0 (Jul 10, 2021)

  • Improve performance

New in Sparkbooth 7.0.98.0 (Jul 6, 2021)

  • Initialize hot corner when camera is not connected

New in Sparkbooth 7.0.96.0 (Jun 14, 2021)

  • Vivial Connect uses personal access tokens instead of API secret and key
  • Fix live view issue for Mac Nikon live view

New in Sparkbooth 7.0.94.0 (Jun 6, 2021)

  • Expanding settings submenu shows last item
  • Update webview control to allow clipboard pasting on MacOS
  • Fix webcam only setting for Sparkbooth DSLR
  • Remove resize image GIF setting

New in Sparkbooth 7.0.92.0 (May 19, 2021)

  • Change photo booth screen order to Decorate, Draw/Sign, then GIF render
  • Fix cover setting for mirror booth

New in Sparkbooth 7.0.91.0 (May 18, 2021)

  • Improve uploader offline handling

New in Sparkbooth 7.0.90.0 (May 17, 2021)

  • Add setting to disable drawing on decorate screen
  • Display static message if animated text is disabled
  • Fix decorate area for portrait photos

New in Sparkbooth 7.0.86.0 (May 3, 2021)

  • Fix reprint shortcut issue

New in Sparkbooth 7.0.85.0 (Apr 7, 2021)

  • Add support for EOS Kiss M2 / EOS M50 Mark II, EOS R6 / EOS R5, EOS Kiss X10i / EOS Rebel T8i / EOS 850D / EOS Ra, the EOS-1D X Mark III

New in Sparkbooth 7.0.84.0 (Apr 2, 2021)

  • Include decorate photos in mirror booth settings

New in Sparkbooth 7.0.83.0 (Mar 29, 2021)

  • Use shift key and configured start hotkey to start GIF Booth on Photo/GIF Booth screen
  • Add start GIF Booth action for Photo/GIF Booth screen
  • Update settings instructions on default disclosure screen html

New in Sparkbooth 7.0.76.0 (Dec 30, 2020)

  • Update camera settings dialog

New in Sparkbooth 6.1.75.0 (Dec 28, 2020)

  • Windows Viewer print engine is not available on Windows 10
  • Update layout render and folder monitor workers

New in Sparkbooth 6.1.74.0 (Dec 21, 2020)

  • Fix send to guest about screen status

New in Sparkbooth 6.1.73.0 (Dec 15, 2020)

  • Update Facebook service version

New in Sparkbooth 6.1.71.0 (Dec 7, 2020)

  • Add flat style for on-screen keyboard
  • Updates to About status

New in Sparkbooth 6.1.69.0 (Dec 1, 2020)

  • Add select all photo sizes settings
  • Fix keyboard shortcuts for selection screens
  • Restrict characters for telephone input field

New in Sparkbooth 6.1.67.0 (Nov 23, 2020)

  • Add date text tokens for photo layout text
  • Skip over bad line formats for send photo later import

New in Sparkbooth 6.1.65.0 (Nov 12, 2020)

  • Fix retake last photo
  • Fix for live view start issues [DSLR]
  • Do not restart live view after last photo [DSLR]

New in Sparkbooth 6.1.63.0 (Sep 11, 2020)

  • Fix Facebook page timeline album uploading

New in Sparkbooth 6.1.62.0 (Sep 8, 2020)

  • Update Facebook uploader for latest service version
  • Add export setting for stickers
  • Fix importing of image favorite and hidden settings
  • Fix image set export default filename

New in Sparkbooth 6.1.61.0 (Aug 21, 2020)

  • Update translations

New in Sparkbooth 6.1.60.0 (Aug 7, 2020)

  • Fix photo size select drop down list

New in Sparkbooth 7.0.52.0 Beta (Jul 17, 2020)

  • GIF Booth mode to record multi-frame GIFs including rewind or boomerang GIFs
  • Display Photo Booth and GIF Booth selection screen to allow guests to select mode
  • New virtual props and stickers. Or use your own images to create your own sets of props
  • Separated upload settings for GIF verses JPEG/PNG. Some uploaders do not work with GIFs
  • Separate photo album/kiosk settings for GIF verses JPEG/PNG. For example, no print option for GIFs
  • Decorate screen to allow guests to draw or apply virtual props on individual photos
  • Email or texting input screen displays image to be sent
  • Customizable button and screen title font and color
  • Snap Camera hotkey sets to automatically change Snap Camera lens per photo
  • Redesigned and reorganize settings dialogs

New in Sparkbooth 6.1.59.0 (Jul 14, 2020)

  • Fix camera display message over settings dialog

New in Sparkbooth 6.1.58.0 (Jul 9, 2020)

  • Fix drawing screen timeout issue
  • Fix display of classic button with blank label text

New in Sparkbooth 6.1.57.0 (Jul 2, 2020)

  • Fix drawing screen timeout issue
  • Fix display of classic button with blank label text

New in Sparkbooth 6.1.56.0 (Jun 29, 2020)

  • Fix drawing screen non-draggable stickers

New in Sparkbooth 6.1.55.0 (Jun 17, 2020)

  • Fix layout editor property dialog constraints
  • Fix issue where photo proportion may change

New in Sparkbooth 6.1.54.0 (Jun 9, 2020)

  • Fix blank failure url gateway screen issue
  • Fix gateway display for disabled start screens

New in Sparkbooth 6.1.53.0 (May 20, 2020)

  • Updated embedded web browser used to a modern version. Sparkbooth is no longer dependent on the version of Internet Explorer installed. Several services like SmugMug, Flickr, and Tumblr, no longer support Internet Explorer, so this fixes sign in for these services.
  • Updated for MacOS 10.15 Catalina. Previous versions of Sparkbooth will not run on MacOS 10.15 or later.
  • Improved webcam quality on MacOS.
  • Guests can select photo layouts of different photo size. For example, on the selection screen - guests can select either a portrait or square photo layout.
  • Added Telnyx and Vonage (formerly Nexmo) texting services to send photos to your guest's mobile devices.
  • Improved sticker drag, scale and rotate controls for the drawing screen
  • For Sparkbooth DSLR Canon, added support for new camera models including EOS RP, EOS Kiss X10 / EOS Rebel SL3 / EOS 250D / EOS 200D II, PowerShot G7X Mark III / PowerShot G5X Mark II, EOS M6 Mark II / EOS 90D, EOS M200.

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.151 (Mar 29, 2020)

  • Fix false warning for DSLR license

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.150 (Mar 27, 2020)

  • Remove slower non-legacy GIF encoder
  • Fix screen overlay, background, video random selection
  • Update licensing component

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.149 (Mar 19, 2020)

  • Longer email provider list
  • Fix UI resizing when changing themes
  • Fix importing of telephone numbers into Send Photo Later queue
  • Hide lock mode message in empty photo kiosk

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.147 (Dec 18, 2019)

  • Separate gateway screen setting for session and photo album
  • Fix initial tool selection for drawing screen
  • Fix importing of non-supported photo size layouts
  • Counters import will skip if type, action, name, and target are the same as existing
  • By default counters will not be exported

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.146 (Dec 3, 2019)

  • Fix photo kiosk page up and down shortcut

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.145 (Nov 27, 2019)

  • Fix for slow photo layout rendering

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.144 (Nov 25, 2019)

  • Disclosure, get ready, and drawing screens log to status file
  • Add controls position to photo kiosk settings
  • Update Twilio invalid login credentials error message

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.143 (Nov 19, 2019)

  • Add Send to Account Facebook notification

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.142 (Nov 12, 2019)

  • Add missing message font settings to Photo Kiosk mode

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.141 (Nov 5, 2019)

  • Increase background transparency of modal dialogs
  • Fix SmugMug and Facebook callback urls
  • Disable toggle selection of starting screens

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.140 (Oct 22, 2019)

  • Use external browser to sign into Send to Account Facebook uploaders
  • Remove unused Facebook permission
  • Improve error handling of settings import
  • Add font and animated text settings to kiosk mode
  • Remove Custom Facebook App which is no longer supported

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.136 (Oct 22, 2019)

  • Update translations
  • Fix animated text issue with space-only messages
  • Export includes video sets when movie files are enabled
  • Remove unused Facebook permissions
  • Add photo layout reset to startup reset

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.134 (Oct 1, 2019)

  • Fix button rendering for None theme

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.133 (Sep 25, 2019)

  • Update back icon for album screens and select icon for Send Photo Later queue

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.132 (Sep 17, 2019)

  • Fix for blank text labels for start screen buttons
  • Fix for Always In Front toggling on some Windows 10

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.131 (Sep 12, 2019)

  • Google services authorization always use external browser
  • Change success url for Flickr, SmugMug, and Tumblr

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.130 (Sep 4, 2019)

  • Fix startup crash for some Windows 10 installs
  • Update Facebook success login url
  • Update mobile sending error messaging

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.129 (Aug 27, 2019)

  • Update Facebook service version
  • Mailchimp authentication can use external browser
  • Clear session data after Send Photo Later queue upload

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.128 (Aug 21, 2019)

  • Show current unfavorited selected on selection screens

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.127 (Aug 20, 2019)

  • Display save errors as notifications

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.126 (Aug 8, 2019)

  • Change Dropbox login to use external browser
  • Do not render drawing area for layout preview
  • Selection screens should show already selected items first

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.125 (Jul 30, 2019)

  • Fix Facebook Post Share uploader
  • Display Facebook access expire date

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.124 (Jul 20, 2019)

  • Extend Facebook login duration

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.123 (Jul 18, 2019)

  • Fix screen overlay issue on retake
  • Speed up animated text countdown
  • Include photo url in upload log

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.122 (Jul 12, 2019)

  • Trim portrait, no rotation correctly for webcam
  • Update legacy GIF encoder

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.121 (Jul 10, 2019)

  • Update legacy GIF encoder

New in Sparkbooth 6.1.2.0 Beta (Jul 2, 2019)

  • This is the first release of the 6.1 beta.
  • The web browser view has been updated to a modern web browser standard. Previously for the Windows version, Sparkbooth used Internet Explorer web browser component for this. Many web sites, like SmugMug, Flickr, and Tumblr, are no longer supporting Internet Explorer. With this update, you will be able to sign into those web services without opening an external web browser. The new web view browser also has the benefit of signing out of Facebook and other services much faster.

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.120 (Jun 25, 2019)

  • Fix Facebook login for mobile and hotspot domains

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.119 (Jun 20, 2019)

  • Fix layout editor text color picker

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.118 (Jun 11, 2019)

  • Fix for Windows 10 1903 update

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.117 (May 30, 2019)

  • Fix mirror booth mode for non-English language

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.116 (May 29, 2019)

  • Login in using external browser for SmugMug and Flickr
  • Fix Facebook link sharing
  • Fix Facebook login warning

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.112 (May 24, 2019)

  • Fix login verification for some uploaders

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.111 (May 23, 2019)

  • Fix Facebook login and update service version

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.110 (May 22, 2019)

  • Update SendGrid service
  • Fix clipping of layout editor toolbar
  • Fix saving of notifier settings
  • Other minor updates

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.100 (Apr 24, 2019)

  • Option to disable telephone mask
  • Fix SmugMug uploading
  • Other minor updates

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.98 (Mar 26, 2019)

  • Keep layout editor overlay image layer on top
  • Update QWERTY email keyboard
  • Fix Disclosure screen file selection
  • Update translations
  • Remove notifiers from Send Photo Later uploads

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.97 (Mar 23, 2019)

  • Add selection check mark to start screens
  • Add Use EU setting to MailGun notifier
  • Fix photo layout change button
  • Warning for Logitech Capture software

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.94 (Mar 11, 2019)

  • Fix custom filename hour placeholder
  • Add support for EOS 5DS, 5DS R, 7D Mark II, 80D, Kiss M / EOS M50, EOS R, 1D C, 1D Mark III, 1D Mark IV, 1D X, 1D X Mark II, 1Ds Mark III, PowerShot SX70 HS [Canon DSLR]

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.92 (Feb 25, 2019)

  • Update for new Facebook login

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.90 (Feb 11, 2019)

  • Add support for Nikon D850, D5600, D7500, z6, z7 [DSLR Nikon]
  • Fix month and minute tokens for custom file name
  • Optimize album screen memory usage

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.84 (Jan 10, 2019)

  • Fix for Gateway screen settings screen

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.81 (Jan 4, 2019)

  • Configurable touch and hold corners
  • Update translations
  • Ready screen minimum time is 3 seconds or 0 to disable count

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.79 (Dec 7, 2018)

  • Fix overlay selection screen title text

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.78 (Nov 21, 2018)

  • Update to new Twitter service
  • Removed MobypictureTwitter, TwitPic, TwitrPix, and YFrog uploaders
  • Fix some keyboard shortcuts for cover screen

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.76 (Nov 6, 2018)

  • Add url match types and buying parameter to gateway screen
  • Fix webcam initialization for DSLR

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.74 (Oct 31, 2018)

  • Fix background generators

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.73 (Oct 24, 2018)

  • Always pre-render layouts
  • Output gateway and upload prompt screen to status file
  • Add setting to change print prompt submit key to F13
  • Fix layout rendering timeout handling

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.72 (Oct 18, 2018)

  • Fix custom color selection for drawing region

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.71 (Oct 16, 2018)

  • Add gateway payment screen option for photo kiosk
  • Add start times control for video countdown settings
  • Fix default prints for photo kiosk
  • Improve caching for portrait and banner images

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.69 (Oct 2, 2018)

  • Fixes and improvements to get ready screen

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.68 (Sep 25, 2018)

  • Fix start session when locked
  • Change touch lock color to grey
  • Show more items in Premium settings list
  • Show other live view camera settings for Mirror Booth

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.67 (Sep 19, 2018)

  • Add support for Canon T7, T100
  • Fix applying font changes from Messages settings
  • Add no countdown sound option
  • Other minor fixes

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.66 (Sep 19, 2018)

  • New modern flat button styles
  • New mirror booth mode. Customize with your own videos.
  • Drawing screen to allow guests to sign or draw on their photos. Can be used for photo booth or mirror booth mode.
  • New stickers to allow guests to apply sticker images. Customize with your own images.
  • New video countdowns. Additional video countdowns.
  • New gateway screen that can be used take payments or display survey before starting photo booth
  • New disclosure screen to display html or image files for privacy policies or other disclosures
  • Configure buttons to be display at top or bottom of screen
  • Display multiple screen overlays and green screens on selection screen
  • Use new Facebook service for uploading photos to business pages
  • Add additional prints to guests selected print copies from print prompt screen. Useful for ensuring you have a print for a photo book in addition to prints for guests.
  • New photo layout background generators
  • New media library for images in photo layout editor
  • New Gmail emailer
  • New Dropbox uploader
  • New Buffer.com uploader
  • New Google Photo uploader
  • New Google Drive uploader
  • Add EU server option for MailGun emailer
  • Improved Nikon component
  • New notifiers to send emails or texts when counters search configured limits
  • Add COUNTDOWN and TRIGGER to status file output when countdown or photo trigger is displayed
  • Export individual screen overlays, green screen backgrounds, and countdowns

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.160 (Sep 13, 2018)

  • Fix SmugMug loging
  • Smaller install

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.159 (Jul 24, 2018)

  • Support Facebook v3.0 custom app

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.158 (Jul 22, 2018)

  • Fix listing of Facebook pages

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.157 (Jul 19, 2018)

  • Smaller installer
  • Allow Facebook 2-factor login

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.156 (Jul 19, 2018)

  • Update Facebook uploader for changes coming on August 2018
  • Decrease time to open camera list
  • Update photo timeout message

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.155 (Jun 13, 2018)

  • Update GIF encoding
  • Fix updating start button text
  • Fix photo kiosk prompts showing email and telephone twice
  • Fix cached Twitter name from previous session

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.153 (May 30, 2018)

  • Update GIF encoding

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.152 (May 26, 2018)

  • Fix updating start button text

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.151 (May 21, 2018)

  • Optimize camera initialization

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.150 (May 21, 2018)

  • Optimize DSLR live view start up
  • Fix resetting of photo effects
  • Fix GIF encoding issues
  • Fix null cover screen settings
  • Add request support link in About screen

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.149 (May 15, 2018)

  • Optimize DSLR live view start up
  • Fix resetting of photo effects
  • Fix GIF encoding issues
  • Fix null cover screen settings
  • Add request support link in About screen

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.146 (Apr 18, 2018)

  • Add Sparkpost EU
  • Rename Picasa to Google Photos and enable albums
  • Start screen dialog should always be on top of the prompt message
  • Make layout editor background lighter for better contrast
  • Cloning layouts makes copies of images
  • Fix deleting of images when referenced by multiple layouts

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.145 (Apr 17, 2018)

  • Add Sparkpost EU
  • Rename Picasa to Google Photos and enable albums
  • Start screen dialog should always be on top of the prompt message
  • Make layout editor background lighter for better contrast
  • Cloning layouts makes copies of images
  • Fix deleting of images when referenced by multiple layouts

New in Sparkbooth 6.0.28 Beta (Apr 16, 2018)

  • Check out the new Sparkbooth 6 Beta including these new features:
  • Mirror booth mode.
  • Add your own video clips for mirror booth.
  • Allow guests to draw or sign on top of layouts
  • Allow guests to apply image stickers on top of layouts
  • New video countdowns
  • New settings user interface
  • Layout editor includes image library with frames and images to customize layouts
  • Layout background generators to create your own gradient, strips, tiled, images, or other background effects
  • Add dynamic dates to custom filenames

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.143 (Mar 21, 2018)

  • Add start session key-press setting

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.141 (Mar 14, 2018)

  • Update Facebook service version
  • Adjust settings layout for long text labels

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.139 (Feb 28, 2018)

  • Add START event to status file and allow status to be shown in window title bar
  • Show all MailChimp lists sorted by name
  • Fix save settings for photo kiosk mode

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.138 (Feb 5, 2018)

  • Enable Facebook 2-factor login
  • Fix Facebook logout

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.137 (Jan 26, 2018)

  • Fix cycling of photo effect selection

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.135 (Jan 25, 2018)

  • Fix layout filename text rendering

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.134 (Jan 16, 2018)

  • Improved Canon component
  • Prevent Canon camera from timing out
  • Add cancel session shortcut action
  • Fix retake photo shortcut action
  • Send photo later queue imports photos from same folder as import file
  • Fix preview duration 'None' slider label
  • Update some missing translations

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.133 (Dec 6, 2017)

  • Album screen close button should be disabled after selecting a photo

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.132 (Dec 5, 2017)

  • Fix photo size setting for portrait photos
  • Revert max photo size setting

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.131 (Dec 5, 2017)

  • Fix handling of bad Facebook authorization token

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.130 (Nov 21, 2017)

  • Fix saving of new layout items in editor after changing item settings

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.128 (Nov 15, 2017)

  • Fix layout reset setting switching back to default

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.126 (Oct 27, 2017)

  • Fix for json import
  • Fix for importing photo layout with same name as existing

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.125 (Oct 19, 2017)

  • Remove dash separators for default filename
  • Consistent single and camera filenames
  • Rename retaken photo filename
  • Fix brighten live view when 'using external flash' setting disabled

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.122 (Sep 25, 2017)

  • Fix ordering of photos for layout export

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.117 (Aug 23, 2017)

  • Fix display split layouts in layout selection screen
  • Fix layout editor print preview for display split and duplicate print layouts

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.116 (Aug 8, 2017)

  • Fix settings export for bad images

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.115 (Aug 7, 2017)

  • Get all SmugMug albums
  • Add refresh and sort albums for Evernote, Facebook Post Share, Flickr, Imgur, ShootProof, SmugMug and Zenfolio settings
  • Fix Evernote login
  • Fix ShootProof event selection

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.112 (Jul 14, 2017)

  • Resized uploaded images should save with jpg extension
  • Send to Guest upload status should use selected uploader rather than 'Your Service'
  • Fix skipping GIF generation if print is cancelled from prompt screen
  • Fade out overlapping animated text prompts
  • Only upload errors are displayed as notifications

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.110 (Jul 12, 2017)

  • Changes include:
  • Add Spanish, German, French, or Brazilian Portuguese language support
  • DSLR supports Nikon cameras
  • Portrait mode for tall/vertical screens including camera rotation
  • Animationed text prompts
  • Animated text countdown
  • Photo trigger with no countdown option
  • Retake photos in session
  • Add bevel, glow, drop shadow effects to photo layout editor
  • Add layout editor view zooming
  • Settable photo layout background color
  • Photo layout pre-rendering to speed up layout generation
  • Display duplicate layout as single strip
  • Print layout as doubled strip
  • Allow upside down configuration of camera
  • Setting for camera flash color and transparency
  • Custom countdown audio so you can add voice clips for 1, 2, 3…
  • Custom countdown images so you can use your own images
  • Use screensaver instead of cover screen
  • Video and animated text screensaver and cover screens
  • Post animated GIFs to Facebook
  • Use animated GIFs for screen overlays or green screen backgrounds
  • Add rewind / boomerang gif animation option
  • Add subfolder options for saving singles, originals, and GIFs
  • Add create subfolder options for startup only or hours after midnight
  • Add popup animation to selected layout on selection screen
  • Add option to show multiple layouts on selection screen
  • Add ‘None’ theme for no background or frames around video and thumbnail previews
  • And more…

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.110 Beta (Jul 6, 2017)

  • Add layout checker to remove bad images
  • UI tweaks

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.108 Beta (Jul 6, 2017)

  • Add layout checker to remove bad images
  • UI tweaks

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.106 Beta (Jun 20, 2017)

  • Update Canon component in main DSLR version. B version no longer needed [DSLR Canon]
  • Add bevel, outline, drop shadow effects to photo layout editor
  • Add layout editor view zooming
  • Add photo layout pre-rendering to speed up layout generation
  • Update STMP emailer to ignore certificate warnings

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.92 (May 18, 2017)

  • Fix STMP emailing to ignore certificate warnings
  • Fix crashes when adding images to green screen background sets

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.91 (May 2, 2017)

  • Fix request support for photo kiosk
  • Fix erroneous Mailchimp check in photo kiosk
  • Other minor fixes

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.96 Beta (Apr 28, 2017)

  • Allow upside down configuration of camera
  • Setting for camera flash color and transparency
  • ESC press exits photo kiosk screens
  • Fix request support for photo kiosk
  • Fix erroneous Mailchimp check in photo kiosk
  • Other minor fixes

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.94 Beta (Apr 25, 2017)

  • Update Canon component to improve performance and fix take photo delay [Canon b]
  • Email and mobile senders will prompt for information if uninitialized and save into queue
  • Uploaders will be reinitialized when internet status changes
  • Corrections for German translations

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.90 (Apr 25, 2017)

  • Update Canon component to improve performance and fix take photo delay [Canon b]
  • Fix in-application reset settings

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.93 Beta (Apr 18, 2017)

  • Photo effect selection screen disables selection buttons for less than 2 selectable effects
  • Add in-application settings reset

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.89 (Apr 18, 2017)

  • Add in-application reset settings

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.92 Beta (Apr 12, 2017)

  • Enter key press on prompt screens will submit
  • Fix camera select dialog
  • Fix closing application when camera uninitialized
  • Fix fullscreen exiting in lock mode

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.88 (Apr 12, 2017)

  • Fix camera select dialog
  • Fix closing application when camera uninitialized
  • Fix fullscreen exiting in lock mode

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.87 (Apr 12, 2017)

  • Fix camera select dialog
  • Fix closing application when camera uninitialized
  • Fix exiting fullscreen in lock mode

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.90 Beta (Apr 11, 2017)

  • Add subfolder options for saving singles, originals, and GIFs
  • Add create subfolder options for startup only or hours after midnight
  • Fix freezing when switching themes

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.85 (Apr 9, 2017)

  • Fix freezing when changing themes
  • Canceled uploads should not be queued
  • Print prompt screen remaining time label should only be 1 line

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.89 Beta (Apr 4, 2017)

  • Add rewind / boomerang gif animation option
  • Add animated text prompt color setting
  • Add popup animation to selected layout on selection screen
  • Timed out uploads should be queued in send photo later

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.88 Beta (Mar 29, 2017)

  • Add option to show more than one layout on selection screen
  • Fixes to separate prompts from guest emailing and mobile texting

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.86 Beta (Mar 27, 2017)

  • Add button option for photo trigger and photo retake
  • Removed screen click for photo trigger (use button option instead)
  • Separate email prompt from guest emailing screen
  • Update Portuguese translations
  • Canceled or timeout uploads are no longer queued

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.84 Beta (Mar 22, 2017)

  • Update German, French and Spanish translations
  • Add 'None' theme
  • Opening links with web browser, exits fullscreen

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.84 (Mar 17, 2017)

  • Opening links with web browser, exits fullscreen
  • Fix live view error message
  • Fix default theme selection

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.79 (Mar 14, 2017)

  • Fix Send To Guest status on About screen

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.81 Beta (Mar 13, 2017)

  • Fix keyboard issue with retake photo enabled
  • Update VIvial Connect setting text for non-English languages

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.80 Beta (Mar 9, 2017)

  • Add Vivial Connect as mobile sending option

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.79 Beta (Mar 8, 2017)

  • Fix hiding of trigger photo display text
  • Fix Send To Guest status on About screen

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.78 Beta (Mar 6, 2017)

  • Display text prompts with animation
  • Change trigger photo text and display as notification or prompt
  • Update Facebook photo urls
  • Fix display of OK button for Facebook like dialog
  • Fix delay is loading status display when importing settings
  • Fix centering of 'Developing Photos' message
  • Fix scale width control for Mac webcam
  • Other minor optimizations

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.78 (Mar 6, 2017)

  • Add firmware version checker
  • Update error logging
  • Update Facebook photo urls
  • Fix display of OK button for Facebook like dialog
  • Fix delay is loading status display when importing settings
  • Fix centering of 'Developing Photos' message
  • Other minor optimizations

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.76 Beta (Mar 2, 2017)

  • Enable click or touch photo trigger for no countdown setting
  • Fix animated text screen saver and cover
  • Add Canon firmware version checker [Canon DSLR]

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.75 Beta (Feb 27, 2017)

  • Fix split prints only printing 1 copy
  • Optimization to message prompts

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.74 Beta (Feb 24, 2017)

  • Fix adding image to green screen set

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.72 (Feb 23, 2017)

  • Fix layout editor undo

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.71 (Feb 23, 2017)

  • Fix error when dragging file with no extension into photo layout settings
  • Minor UI fixes and tweaks

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.71 Beta (Feb 23, 2017)

  • Add settable photo layout background color
  • Add before photo messages
  • Optimizations for on-screen message display
  • Fix error when dragging file with no extension into photo layout settings
  • Minor UI fixes and tweaks

New in Sparkbooth 5.0.70 Beta (Feb 15, 2017)

  • Change language to Spanish, German, French, or Brazilian Portuguese
  • DSLR supports Nikon cameras
  • Take photos by trigger without countdown
  • Retake photos in session
  • Animated text countdown
  • Custom countdown audio so you can add voice clips for 1, 2, 3...
  • Custom countdown images so you can use your own images
  • Portrait mode for tall screens including camera rotation
  • Display layout as split strip
  • Print layout as doubled strip
  • Use screensaver instead of cover screen
  • Video and animated text screensaver and cover screens
  • Post animated GIFs to Facebook using new "Facebook Post Share" uploader to posted GIF on photo sharing services and then share photo on Facebook
  • Use animated GIFs for screen overlays or green screen backgrounds

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.68 (Feb 14, 2017)

  • Clear up image loading memory sooner
  • Fix photo layout settings keyboard handling

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.67 (Feb 6, 2017)

  • Fix Twitter @reply uploader

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.65 (Jan 31, 2017)

  • Fix screen overlay mirroring
  • Fix photo layout settings keyboard handling

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.63 (Jan 30, 2017)

  • Fix screen overlay mirroring
  • Fix photo layout settings keyboard handling

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.61 Beta (Jan 24, 2017)

  • Add password to lock setting
  • Other minor UI tweaks

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.60 Beta (Jan 23, 2017)

  • Fix to not display blank messages

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.59 Beta (Jan 16, 2017)

  • Other optimizations

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.55 Beta (Jan 6, 2017)

  • Disable live view when viewing settings and photo album
  • Other optimizations

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.54 Beta (Jan 2, 2017)

  • Clean up settings import
  • More memory optimizations

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.53 Beta (Dec 30, 2016)

  • Fix for large settings export

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.52 Beta (Dec 30, 2016)

  • Fix saving of cover and theme settings
  • More memory usage optimizations

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.51 Beta (Dec 21, 2016)

  • Fix guest Twitter upload

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.128 (Dec 20, 2016)

  • Update Santa voice

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.50 Beta (Dec 20, 2016)

  • Update Santa voice
  • Fix Postmark zero size error
  • More memory usage optimizations

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.127 (Dec 10, 2016)

  • Optimizations to camera settings dialog

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.48 Beta (Dec 10, 2016)

  • Convert to current Documents folder when importing save paths
  • Fix Windows Viewer print setup
  • Fix start-up screen initialization
  • More memory usage optimizations

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.126 (Dec 1, 2016)

  • Fix for animated GIF color palette

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.44 Beta (Nov 23, 2016)

  • Improved import export file format
  • Fix animated GIF delay setting
  • Save as dialog checks for existing files
  • More memory usage optimizations

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.43 Beta (Nov 9, 2016)

  • Fix camera shut down when changing themes or toggling preview only setting

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.42 Beta (Nov 6, 2016)

  • Fix about screen status

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.125 (Nov 4, 2016)

  • Fix Send to Account Facebook login
  • Remove Facebook non-native browser option

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.40 Beta (Nov 3, 2016)

  • Optimize memory usage of locks, counters, printing, layout editor, trials, layouts, layout editor and voices

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.38 Beta (Oct 26, 2016)

  • Revert fix for MailChimp displaying email prompt
  • Optimize themes memory usage

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.123 (Oct 26, 2016)

  • Revert fix for MailChimp displaying email prompt

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.122 (Oct 26, 2016)

  • Change Mobile settings layout
  • Adjust DSLR photo time out
  • Fix disabled Set Password button for Lock mode

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.37 Beta (Oct 19, 2016)

  • Adjust DSLR photo time out
  • Change Mobile settings layout
  • Add password confirmation for lock mode
  • Add setting to toggle lock mode with close mode short cut
  • Fix disabled Set Password button for Lock mode

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.121 (Oct 19, 2016)

  • Change Mobile settings layout
  • Adjust DSLR photo time out
  • Fix disabled Set Password button for Lock mode

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.120 (Oct 11, 2016)

  • Fix prompt screen for mailing list email

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.35 Beta (Oct 4, 2016)

  • Start screen memory optimizations

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.119 (Oct 4, 2016)

  • Update request support short system information
  • Use MailChimp v3.0 service

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.118 (Sep 27, 2016)

  • Add request support shortcut to send log and system information
  • Fix SMTP verify button for unauthenticated server

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.34 Beta (Sep 27, 2016)

  • Add request support short cut to send log and system information
  • Auto reboot after importing settings
  • Add setting to sound effect time out
  • Fix SMTP verify button for unauthenticated server
  • Other minor fixes and optimizations

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.116 (Sep 20, 2016)

  • Facebook event upload fix

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.115 (Sep 7, 2016)

  • Update Facebook service version
  • Faster Facebook sign out
  • Fix Facebook upload for mobile hotspot domain (web.facebook.com)
  • Save single photos is enabled by default
  • Upload resize cache saved locally instead on remote folder for kiosk mode

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.106 (Aug 10, 2016)

  • Switch back to regular mobile services
  • Fix Facebook 1 x 4 strip upload error

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.27 Beta (Aug 9, 2016)

  • Fix Facebook 1 x 4 strip upload error

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.26 Beta (Aug 2, 2016)

  • Remove unused strings
  • Fix banner sizing
  • Reorganize photo taking workflow

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.105 (Jul 28, 2016)

  • Update Mobile services
  • Fix banner sizing

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.104 (Jul 12, 2016)

  • Fix Surface 4 webcam issue
  • Fix exporting of unsaved settings
  • Fix misspellings

New in Sparkbooth 4.3.18 Beta (Jun 14, 2016)

  • Numeric keypad - and + will change print copies in print prompt screen
  • Disable printing temporarily setting 0 prints via shortcut
  • Fix layout editor cut shortcut
  • Remove no count down photo trigger
  • Remove photo retake
  • Other minor fixes

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.103 (Jun 7, 2016)

  • Fix close mode custom action
  • Other minor fixes

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.101 (May 13, 2016)

  • Remove TwitPic (no longer exists) which causes Send To Guest settings to hang if selected

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.100 (May 11, 2016)

  • Add SMTP email to Email Account
  • Fix Send Photo Later delete queue after sending
  • Fix Send Photo Later undo delete
  • Fix layout editor drag drop import

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.98 (Apr 28, 2016)

  • Change Mandrill to use api key
  • Fix custom SMTP settings
  • Fix SMTP 'CPU lacks feature' error

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.96 (Apr 26, 2016)

  • Fix photo layout delete and hide

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.94 (Apr 20, 2016)

  • Add printer error retry setting
  • Other minor fixes

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.92 (Apr 13, 2016)

  • Add QWERTZ South Slavic Latin keyboard layout
  • Fix negative positions for items in layout editor
  • Fix Facebook Post to Account then Share logout
  • Fix some minor errors

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.91 (Apr 6, 2016)

  • Fix Facebook login

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.89 (Mar 29, 2016)

  • Add STMP emailer [beta]
  • Add MailGun email service

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.88 (Mar 21, 2016)

  • Add Sparkpost email service
  • "Before" Photo screen overlays
  • Do not display on screen buttons in close mode
  • Select camera dialog include DSLR options
  • Fix on screen keyboard for small displays

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.85 (Mar 9, 2016)

  • Add keyboard shortcut to toggle Close Mode
  • Add toolip help for Settings > Messages fields
  • Fix Windows Viewer Setup display
  • Fix Facebook help links\n- Guest upload screen uses less memory
  • Do not initialize Mailchimp for Personal license

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.83 (Mar 1, 2016)

  • Hide green screen controls if disabled
  • Fix for Windows 10 to use native browser

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.81 (Feb 23, 2016)

  • Save camera photo option for webcams
  • Workaround for Windows 10 SmugMug and tumblr sign in
  • Update 'take photo from screenshot' option
  • Fix Windows Viewer print option
  • Only display uploader error notifications

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.80 (Feb 9, 2016)

  • [DSLR] Add support for Canon T6s and T6i cameras
  • [DSLR] Shutter speed setting to handle dark live view
  • [Premium, DSLR] Green screen to dynamically replace backgrounds with your own images.
  • [Premium, DSLR] Add green screen background selection keyboard shortcut, button and screen
  • [Premium, DSLR] Add keyboard shortcut to toggle green screen feature
  • [Premium, DSLR] Add button maker layouts and screen overlay
  • [Premium, DSLR] Add keyboard shortcut to temporally change print copies for session
  • [Premium, DSLR] Customize actions for up and down arrow keyboard shortcuts
  • Faster animated GIF generation
  • Add animated GIF delay setting
  • Improved support for using wireless presentation remotes to start sessions, and configurable actions for the next and previous buttons.
  • Automatically create new Facebook photo album when photo limit setting is reached
  • Add Facebook 'Post to Account Page then Share' upload option.
  • Post photos to Facebook event pages
  • Updates to SmugMug, Facebook, and Picassa service
  • [Premium, DSLR] Faster Photo Kiosk file cache reloading
  • [Premium, DSLR] Add button toolbar to Photo Kiosk
  • New Twitter upload option to @reply guest’s Twitter account
  • Send Photo Later for Guest Twitter uploads
  • [Premium, DSLR] Add prompts to Photo Kiosk mode
  • [Premium, DSLR] Submit email addresses to MailChimp mailing lists in Photo Kiosk mode
  • [Premium, DSLR] Add counters to Photo Kiosk mode to track prints and uploads
  • Add data import and export Send Photo Later queue
  • Add Santa Claus voice
  • Add image folder setting to slideshow cover screen
  • [Premium, DSLR] Add new print prompt options for guest selectable copies.
  • No focus icon is displayed in lower right corner when Sparkbooth loses focus
  • Other changes and improvements. See beta release notes for details.

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.77 Beta (Feb 2, 2016)

  • Support Canon EOS T6s and T6i [DSLR]
  • Toggle green screen mode with ctlr-G shortcut
  • Fix crash when changing brighten live view setting with disconnected camera
  • Warn if live view Tv is faster than photo Tv

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.76 Beta (Jan 13, 2016)

  • Increase photo kiosk cache expire to 1 week
  • Remove beta warning
  • Fix SendGrid uploader
  • Fix webcam video display issue
  • Fit camera settings dialog to small screens

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.74 Beta (Dec 29, 2015)

  • Do not monitor DSLR connection if only using webcam
  • Prompts for photo booth are logged to prompts.txt in layout save folder
  • Prompts for photo kiosk are logged to sparkbooth-prompts.txt in Documents folder

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.73 Beta (Dec 15, 2015)

  • Fix printer counters when temp copies changed
  • Fix auto print copies step setting

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.72 Beta (Dec 10, 2015)

  • Fix disabled green screen backgrounds

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.71 Beta (Dec 9, 2015)

  • Display print copies at bottom when changed by shorcut
  • Photo indexs are changable for non-user created screen overlays and green screen sets
  • TwitrPix is back!
  • Add Sparkbooth link to trial upload captions

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.105 (Dec 2, 2015)

  • TwitrPix is back!
  • Add Sparkbooth link to trial upload captions

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.69 Beta (Nov 19, 2015)

  • Add new green screen backgrounds
  • Add button maker layouts and screen overlay
  • Fix screen overlay and green screen background dialog sorting
  • Fix listing of Facebook page albums
  • Fix changing green screen background crash

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.67 Beta (Nov 11, 2015)

  • Update to Facebook 2.5 service
  • Disable native browser login for unsupported operating systems
  • Add print copies options in Photo Album settings
  • Move webcam screenshot setting into camera settings
  • Fix MailChimp initialization on start up

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.104 (Nov 11, 2015)

  • Disable native browser login for unsupported operating systems
  • Fix MailChimp initialization on start up

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.66 Beta (Nov 5, 2015)

  • Customizable on-screen keyboard text
  • Disable on-screen keyboard next button for single field forms
  • Fix start up photo layout preview generation

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.103 (Nov 5, 2015)

  • Fix start up photo layout preview generation

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.65 Beta (Oct 26, 2015)

  • Add Santa Claus voice
  • DSLR license key can activate Sparkbooth Premium
  • Add print prompt 'Even Numbered Copies Only' option
  • Fix export of Green Screen backgrounds

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.62 Beta (Oct 20, 2015)

  • Add Send Photo Later import and export
  • Add Send Photo Later delete undo

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.59 Beta (Oct 9, 2015)

  • Prompt guest again screen should display for prompts too
  • Fix Photo Kiosk messages setting

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.56 Beta (Sep 29, 2015)

  • Update to SmugMug 2.0 service
  • Customize account and guest upload status messages
  • Update test print
  • Fix on-screen change photo layout button
  • Fix custom Facebook app validation

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.55 Beta (Sep 17, 2015)

  • Add print engine drop down
  • Print direct to Windows option renamed to Windows Photo Viewer engine
  • Fix freezing layout generating from corrupt image files
  • Update to Facebook 2.4 service
  • Enable Facebook Group uploads for custom app
  • Add Facebook photo album limit setting
  • Fix MailChimp list control

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.102 (Sep 9, 2015)

  • Print direct to Windows setting is no longer beta
  • Fix freezing layout generating from corrupt image files

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.101 (Sep 3, 2015)

  • Fix custom voice freeze

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.53 Beta (Aug 25, 2015)

  • Fix background and overlay size warning
  • Update brighten live view for cameras without bulb tv
  • Integrate camera lock fix
  • Fix browser warning for Windows 10
  • Change print copies shortcut to left and right arrow keys
  • Handle up and down arrow shortcut keys for presentation remotes
  • Default Twitter photo host is 'Twitter'
  • Remove TwitrPix service

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.100 (Aug 25, 2015)

  • Fix background and overlay size warning

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.99 (Aug 7, 2015)

  • Removed TwitrPix service (appears to be shutdown)

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.98 (Aug 5, 2015)

  • Fix for Windows 10 native browser warning
  • Fix Picasa uploader

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.51 Beta (Jul 30, 2015)

  • Update green screen for blues and yellows
  • Add tolerance setting for green screen
  • Fix for Picasa uploader

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.48 Beta (Jul 23, 2015)

  • Add up arrow keyboard shortcut to temp change auto print copies
  • Add configure page up and down shortcut actions
  • Add photo kiosk keyboard settings
  • Add option to display toolbar in photo kiosk
  • Add option to display doubled copies in print prompt
  • Prevent photo layout import from overwriting layouts with same name
  • Increase Twitter caption to 140 characters

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.45 Beta (Jul 23, 2015)

  • Fix exiting prompt screens

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.44 Beta (Jul 23, 2015)

  • Always show mouse for setting dialogs
  • Fix flashing controls on cover screen
  • Improved layout editor keyboard move to increment by 1 (default) or 10 (hold down ctrl or shift) pixels
  • Optimize photo layout editor
  • Add new status file states

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.97 (Jul 23, 2015)

  • Prevent photo layout import from overwriting layouts with same name
  • Increase Twitter caption to 140 characters

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.95 (Jul 23, 2015)

  • Always show mouse for setting dialogs
  • Fix flashing controls on cover screen

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.93 (Jun 26, 2015)

  • Enable 'Print directly to Windows' for regular Sparkbooth

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.42 Beta (Jun 25, 2015)

  • Enable 'Print directly to Windows' for regular Sparkbooth
  • Faster animated GIF encoding

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.40 Beta (Jun 16, 2015)

  • New Facebook "Post to Account Page then Share" guest uploader
  • Fix Facebook logout
  • Use new Facebook like dialog
  • Update to Facebook 2.3 service
  • Auto create new Facebook photo albums if full
  • Show deactivate window icon when application loses keyboard focus
  • Fix uploader test from Send Photo Later for emailing and mobile
  • Fix animated GIF end of file error when opening with Photoshop
  • Fix chroma key issue with blue and yellow colors
  • Fix some printing issues and notifications

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.91 (Jun 10, 2015)

  • [DSLR] Add Canon EOS 7D mark II support
  • Use new Facebook like dialog
  • Update to Facebook 2.3 service
  • Fix uploader test from Send Photo Later for emailing and mobile
  • Fix animated GIF end of file error when opening with Photoshop
  • Fix some printing issues
  • Fix Facebook logout issues

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.82 (Apr 24, 2015)

  • Improved test print with better scale
  • Fix photo kiosk page updating when changing folders
  • Fix resizing of photo kiosk page

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.81 (Apr 24, 2015)

  • Fix no voice error
  • Optimize mobile uploads

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.80 (Apr 24, 2015)

  • Optimize DSLR
  • Fix stuck developing photos and other freezing issues
  • Fix upload counters
  • Optimize photo album
  • Optimize photo sizes
  • Fix click or touch to start on cover screen
  • Fix SmugMug unauthorized error message

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.76 (Apr 24, 2015)

  • Allow photo kiosk folder to be read-only
  • Shrink large preview portrait images
  • Fix pop up errors

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.74 (Apr 24, 2015)

  • Add old Internet Explorer warning for native login. Windows users using native browser login should have Internet Explorer 10 or later.
  • Add better messaging for MMS upload error

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.73 (Apr 24, 2015)

  • Add QWERTZ on screen keyboard layout
  • Enable keyboard layouts in photo kiosk settings

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.71 (Apr 24, 2015)

  • Add option for QWERTY or AZERTY on screen keyboards

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.70 (Apr 24, 2015)

  • Fix tumblr login

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.69 (Apr 24, 2015)

  • Fix random and next photo layout selection with no favorites
  • Show partial license key when hovering over registered email address in About screen. Use determine which key was used if you have multiple license keys.
  • Add DNP 6x8 and 6x9 paper sizes
  • Enable native Windows printing [DSLR Windows]. Enable this if you are encountering the non-printing bug in Adobe AIR. This prints the same way as if you right-click and select "Print" in Windows Explorer.

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.65 (Apr 24, 2015)

  • Add ShootProof uploader
  • Open and save file dialog should remember last folder
  • Fix thumbnail updating when changing layouts
  • Facebook login uses native browser by default
  • Check transparency image for layout and screen overlays
  • App status includes photo layout reset setting
  • Add brighten LiveView image setting [beta]. Temporary setting until we get ISO/aperture adjustment control done.

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.62 (Apr 24, 2015)

  • Mailchimp no longer enables email prompt. Please prompt for email under Prompts or Send To Guest's Email
  • Fix stuck session start with cover screen
  • Update app framework to fix non-printing issue [Windows]

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.59 (Apr 24, 2015)

  • Workaround for security certificate issue on non-updated Windows computers
  • Fix closing print copy selection screen

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.54 (Apr 24, 2015)

  • Change online monitoring url
  • Improve printer error logging

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.53 (Apr 24, 2015)

  • Fix photo layout editor saving
  • Changable 'Cell' prompt label

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.52 (Apr 24, 2015)

  • Fix unresponsive printing

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.27 Beta (Apr 24, 2015)

  • Add chroma key background selection shortcut, button, and screen
  • Add slideshow cover settings to select image folder
  • Add animated GIF delay setting
  • Improved webcam hue correction for green screen
  • Optimize photo layout rendering
  • Fix green screen crash with no background
  • Other minor optimizations

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.20 Beta (Apr 24, 2015)

  • Improved test print with better scale
  • Faster photo kiosk cache reloading
  • Fix photo kiosk page updating when changing folders
  • Fix resizing of photo kiosk page
  • Fix settings dialog resizing for small screens

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.17 Beta (Apr 24, 2015)

  • Add webcam hue control under camera settings to correct red skin tone with green screen
  • Locally cached photo kiosk files contain original filename so you can map uploads back to original files in sparkbooth-uploads.txt
  • Fix no voice error
  • Optimize mobile uploads

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.15 Beta (Apr 24, 2015)

  • Fix stuck developing photos
  • DSLR optimizations
  • Fix upload counters
  • Fix date save folder
  • Add beta warning
  • Increment photo filename if it already exists

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.13 Beta (Apr 24, 2015)

  • Fix missing filename
  • Optimize photo album
  • Fix click or touch to start on cover screen
  • Fix some freezing issues
  • Fix SmugMug unauthorized error

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.10 Beta (Mar 5, 2015)

  • 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

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.8 Beta (Feb 24, 2015)

  • New beta update 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.

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.6 Beta (Feb 11, 2015)

  • 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.

New in Sparkbooth 4.2.3 Beta (Jan 14, 2015)

  • Green screen (chroma key) feature

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.50 (Oct 10, 2014)

  • 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
  • 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

New in Sparkbooth 4.1.4 Beta (Jun 13, 2014)

  • 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
  • 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
  • Option in Layout Editor to reset 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
  • Change number of prints on print prompt screen with keyboard using arrow keys
  • Other optimizations and fixes

New in Sparkbooth 4.0.148 (Mar 19, 2014)

  • 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

New in Sparkbooth 4.0.114 (Dec 11, 2013)

  • 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

New in Sparkbooth 4.0.0 (Dec 11, 2013)

  • Easy layout customization with graphics and text objects
  • Integrated Layout Editor to create your own layouts [requires Premium license]
  • Integrated Photo Kiosk mode
  • Start screen settings (ctrl-2)
  • Send photos to guest and your account or page in the same session
  • Twilio SMS and MMS uploader in photo booth and album view [requires Premium license]
  • Pinterest uploader in photo booth and album view
  • New screen overlays to display images over video and composite on photos
  • Custom theme to use your own images in screen background.
  • New themes like Fire, Pirate, Football
  • New themed layouts for Pirate and Football
  • Custom filenames
  • Change start and prompt text font
  • New countdown styles
  • Count downs are positionable top, center, or bottom
  • Make animated gifs [requires Premium license]
  • Unfavorite all layouts by ctrl + Favorite button (cmd on Mac)
  • In Photo Layout settings. Page Up and Down to select. Delete to delete selected
  • In Layout Creator. Page Up and Down to select.
  • Import and export handles layouts and screen overlays
  • Change screen overlay shortcut to ctrl-O or with on-screen button
  • All themes changed to use less memory
  • Larger on screen keyboard

New in Sparkbooth 3.8.30 (Oct 22, 2013)

  • Fixes for Facebook sign in changes

New in Sparkbooth 3.8.13 (Jun 5, 2013)

  • 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

New in Sparkbooth 3.8.9 (May 1, 2013)

  • This update allows you always send photos into the Send It Later queue regardless of the selected uploader. So you can select the one of the “Guest” uploaders to allow guests to post photos to their own Facebook or Twitter accounts. Then later after the event, you can upload all the queued photos to your Facebook page or other location.

New in Sparkbooth 3.6.1 (Jan 16, 2013)

  • 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

New in Sparkbooth 3.5.51 (Dec 11, 2012)

  • 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

New in Sparkbooth 3.5.50 (Nov 29, 2012)

  • New Holiday Winter theme
  • Send It Later is now an email option for Guest Upload Chooser and 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 in Sparkbooth 3.5.48 (Nov 9, 2012)

  • 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
  • Fixed 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

New in Sparkbooth 3.5.44 (Oct 30, 2012)

  • 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

New in Sparkbooth 3.5.43 (Oct 23, 2012)

  • 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

New in Sparkbooth 3.5.41 (Oct 16, 2012)

  • 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

New in Sparkbooth 3.5.40 (Oct 9, 2012)

  • 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.
  • 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

New in Sparkbooth 3.5.39 (Oct 6, 2012)

  • If you are currently signed into Facebook in Sparkbooth, you will need to logout and log back into Facebook to extend the access time
  • If you are using the Commercial custom Facebook App, you will need to provide your App’s Secret. You can get that value at your app’s detail page at https://developers.facebook.com/apps
  • This change only affect the “Facebook” uploader. If you are using the “Guest Facebook” or “Guest Upload Chooser” to upload to Facebook, the expiring access token does not affect you.

New in Sparkbooth 3.5.37 (Oct 3, 2012)

  • Today Facebook will be enforcing breaking changes to their authentication process. This affects the Commercial custom Facebook app sign in. Facebook has also started showing a scary the security warning text on their sign in success page. This update fixes the custom Facebook app for these changes, and you will no longer see the security warning. If you have previously setup a custom Facebook app, you will need to add an application domain at http://developer.facebook.com/apps for your app and add a callback url in Sparkbooth. The video tutorial for creating and setting up your custom Facebook app has been updated for this.
  • New prompt setting to allow photo to be sent to multiple accounts (by emails, guest Facebook, guest Twitter, or Send It Later prompts). Go to Settings > Prompts > check “Upload photo to another account”. This is useful for sending the same photo to multiple guests.
  • “Send It Later” uploader has option to not clear uploaded photos. This option is useful if you want to upload photos to more than one destination. For example, if you had prompted for email address – you can now email guests their photos, and then upload to your Facebook page
  • Remove delay between count down and photo being taken. Previously there was a half second delay from the end of the count down to photo being taken.
  • Auto enable Show banner when selecting banner image.

New in Sparkbooth 3.5.35 (Sep 26, 2012)

  • Improve layouts for small screens (smaller than 800 x 600)
  • Add touch/hold lower left corner to toggle lock. Useful for touch screen users!
  • Auto lock app on start up option
  • Re-enable virtual keyboard to app lock password
  • Cancel session during prompts and preview
  • Improve refreshing of album mode
  • Ready email provider for Guest Upload Chooser
  • Spaced not allowed in settings url and api input fields
  • Spaces not allowed in license unlock dialog
  • Ctrl+F should not toggle fullscreen when locked
  • Prevent minimizing when locked

New in Sparkbooth 3.5.33 (Sep 21, 2012)

  • Hide toolbar on app lock
  • Re-display start message after changing photo effect
  • Re-enable click/touch to start setting
  • Re-enable reprint keyboard shortcut
  • Optimize layout selection button and keyboard shortcut
  • Photo layout list sorted by favorites, paper size, and name
  • Change ‘Video’ tab to ‘Photo Effects’ to avoid confusion
  • View save folders in Saving options
  • View log.txt in Prompts options
  • Layout button should show same preview layout
  • Preview layout should update when background or overlay is changed
  • Prompted data correctly saves to log.txt
  • Mandrill logout clears access key – preventing logging back into Mandrill
  • Settings dialog now displays in small window
  • Add background to photo album page label for readability
  • Fix ‘Guest Uploader Chooser’ uploader

New in Sparkbooth 3.5 (Sep 18, 2012)

  • New animations for countdown and previews
  • Added new Retro theme
  • Added Photobucket uploader
  • Added Google+ / Picasa uploader
  • Added more 4 x 8 layouts
  • No longer need to pre-install Adobe AIR runtime
  • Commercial only features:?Photo album kiosk mode
  • Take 4 x 6 photos
  • Customize Facebook uploader share link
  • Customize Twitter uploader share link

New in Sparkbooth 3.4.28 (Aug 22, 2012)

  • Clear previous Facebook session for “Guest Facebook” uploader. So the previous guest’s email is no longer displayed on the sign in screen.
  • Fix “Malformed access token” error when signing into Facebook.
  • Fix saving of max guest print setting
  • Prevent application minimize when locked

New in Sparkbooth 3.4.26 (Aug 13, 2012)

  • Print button in Photo Album/Gallery screen now displays “Printing” message
  • Skipping share in Photo Album/Gallery screen no longer displays “Not Uploaded” message
  • Guest Twitter uploader has caption setting
  • Fixed authentication error message for Flickr and SmugMug, so you can see why the sign in failed
  • Fixed Flickr uploader to allow sign in via Google or Facebook
  • Improved handling of photo saving so if folder path does not exist, it will be created

New in Sparkbooth 3.4.22 (Jul 17, 2012)

  • Improved Guest Selector uploader
  • Improved Flickr authorization
  • Improved SmugMug authorization

New in Sparkbooth 3.4.21 (Jul 14, 2012)

  • The Sparkbooth 3.4.21 update adds emailing via Mandrill, and easier MailChimp setup. You can now email photos using MailChimp’s new Mandrill transactional email service.

New in Sparkbooth 3.4.20 (Jul 14, 2012)

  • The Sparkbooth 3.4.20 update provides some changes to the Facebook and Guest Facebook uploaders to handle changes to Facebook apps. Facebook provides apps 2 weeks before expiring access. So you will need to re-authenticate your access periodically. The Facebook uploader now shows this expire date. Please update if you use the Facebook uploader.

New in Sparkbooth 3.4.17 (Jul 14, 2012)

  • The Sparkbooth 3.4.17 update adds Evernote as an upload option

New in Sparkbooth 3.4.13 (Jul 14, 2012)

  • Fixed tumblr uploader on Macs
  • Removed F key shortcut for toggling fullscreen mode. Please use F7 instead
  • Fix Facebook uploader prompted sign in on start up. Facebook recently removed offline permissions which caused this issue
  • Remove apps from Facebook uploader. Facebook no longer allows photo uploads to an app, please use an app page instead

New in Sparkbooth 3.4.11 (Jun 7, 2012)

  • Fix hidden mouse cursor in Guest Chooser Uploader.

New in Sparkbooth 3.4.9 (May 19, 2012)

  • Maintenance update to fix some minor issues:
  • Notification is displayed on start up with instructions to display settings dialog if you have the buttons/toolbar hidden/ bug
  • Fix exiting of fullscreen when Sparkbooth is locked and pressing ESC in a prompt
  • Fix canceling when dialog is displayed Related Posts

New in Sparkbooth 3.4.7 (May 19, 2012)

  • Minor update to check and provide workarounds for some Adobe AIR related issues:
  • On Windows, a notification will be displayed if your computer has the Bluetooth/Adobe AIR bug
  • This will result in the stretched webcam video

New in Sparkbooth 3.4.6 (Apr 27, 2012)

  • Maintenance update to fix a couple issues: Fix Flickr uploader Prevent resizing of fullscreen window Related Posts

New in Sparkbooth 3.4.4 (Apr 11, 2012)

  • Just a small fix for the print prompt dialog which does not print for some printers like the Canon Selphy

New in Sparkbooth 3.4.3 (Apr 6, 2012)

  • With the new “Send It Later” feature, you can now queue up photos to be uploaded at a later time. This is great if you don’t have an Internet connection available during your event. Photos and prompted information will be automatically saved. Post-event when you do have access to the internet, you can select an uploader and send all the queued photos.
  • Note: “Send It Later” will work with all the uploaders except for the Guest uploaders.

New in Sparkbooth 3.3.4 (Mar 23, 2012)

  • Fixed application updater Start button will automatically shrink to fit label within video display
  • Offline sign in warning text is now customizable
  • Online indicator on About tab Related Posts

New in Sparkbooth 3.2.4 (Mar 19, 2012)

  • Fix low disk space message
  • Fix ability to cancel Guest upload chooser screen by pressing ESC key
  • Optimize image file sizes

New in Sparkbooth 3.2.2 (Mar 3, 2012)

  • This Maintenance update includes the following changes: More controls converted for better display
  • Fixed email input field to accept “_” characters
  • Fixed shift key toggle of virtual keyboard Related Posts

New in Sparkbooth 3.2.1 (Mar 3, 2012)

  • Small maintenance update to improve the drawing of the touch screen controls on smaller screens.
  • With this update the touch screen controls are no longer look pixelated when shrink down.

New in Sparkbooth 3.2.0 (Mar 3, 2012)

  • With this update, you can now let your guests choose where to send their photos. They will be presented with the option to upload the photo to their Facebook or Twitter account, or sent to their email address. To enable this feature, select “Guest Upload Chooser” in the settings

New in Sparkbooth 3.1.2 (Feb 27, 2012)

  • Fixed issues with lock password dialogs
  • Favorited photo layouts are now marked with heart instead of Change 4 x 8 layout names Related Posts

New in Sparkbooth 3.1.1 (Feb 23, 2012)

  • Virtual keyboard is now enabled for the Guest Facebook and Twitter uploaders
  • Remaining time pauses when guest is typing
  • Email input field is limited to only valid email characters. So you can no longer accidentally enter spaces

New in Sparkbooth 3.0.3 Preview (Sep 28, 2011)

  • Fix watermark on preview for layout selection
  • Switch off click/touch to start, if start button is displayed
  • Option to select layout with ctrl-J or cmd-J

New in Sparkbooth 2.6.5 (Sep 28, 2011)

  • There is a Windows issue where if you change the username and/or password on your computer, the license component will not be able to access the license data and Sparkbooth will get stuck on start up. This maintenance update will reset license data so it can start up correctly, but you will need to re-activate your license.

New in Sparkbooth 2.5.7 (Jan 31, 2011)

  • Fix Facebook blank permissions page
  • Add ability to upload to Facebook Pages (beta)
  • Remove old Facebook uploader
  • Add Posterous 2.0 API uploader
  • Add MobyPicture 1.0 API uploader
  • Rename MobyPicture Twitter authenticated uploader

New in Sparkbooth 2.5.6 (Jan 13, 2011)

  • The Test button in the printer settings will now always display the print dialog. This should allow you to setup any printer specific settings that are not available on the regular printer setup dialog.
  • When Sparkbooth starts with printing enabled, you can now setup printing or disable printing. If you choose printer setup, you can also display the print dialog after setup.

New in Sparkbooth 2.4.2 (Nov 25, 2010)

  • More changes related to name change. Update the test image and fixed Posterous upload.

New in Sparkbooth 2.4.1 (Nov 16, 2010)

  • This release updates the application to its new name. Also includes several uploader changes related to the new name.

New in Sparkbooth 2.3 Beta 2 (Sep 1, 2010)

  • Added 3-photo and 1-photo layouts. Party Booth can now handle less than 4 photo sessions.
  • Added video display-only theme. This is useful if you are using a 1-photo layout.
  • Added usage statistics to Settings > Options > Other
  • Removed ScreenTweet, TwitDoc, and TwitSnaps uploaders since they do not support Twitter OAuth authentication requirement

New in Sparkbooth 2.0.6 Beta (Jun 10, 2010)

  • New camera settings controls
  • Fixed count down background transparency

New in Sparkbooth 1.10 (Mar 22, 2010)

  • Add test button for output and uploaders
  • Count down timer goes 3, 2, 1
  • Set wait time for user prompts
  • Fixed photo filenaming issue
  • New EULA

New in Sparkbooth 1.9 (Feb 16, 2010)

  • New photo preview
  • Option for black & white, or sepia photos
  • Fix for photo layout rendering issues

New in Sparkbooth 1.8 (Feb 3, 2010)

  • Adjustable delay between snapshots
  • Option to show count down in between snapshots
  • New 2 x 4 photo layout. 1 x 4 photo with duplicate. Great for getting 2 copies in one printing.

New in Sparkbooth 1.7 (Feb 2, 2010)

  • Customize on-screen start, processing, and thank you messages. Great for customizing Party Booth for your event or language
  • Option to ask user for name and/or email for “Save to disk only”. Information is saved to delimited text file along with photo filename. Useful for sending photos to guest after the event.
  • Improved Facebook Connect sign-in process
  • Attempt to retry Facebook uploads if Facebook service is having problems
  • More user-interface refinements and improvements