Sparkbooth 4 Release Notes
Recent changes to Sparkbooth 4 and Sparkbooth DSLR
4.3
4.3.119 Download: Windows Mac Windows DSLR, Vista XP DSLR
- Switch to new services server
4.3.118 Download: Windows Mac Windows DSLR, Vista XP DSLR
- Fix false warning for DSLR license
4.3.116 Download: Windows Mac Windows DSLR, Vista XP DSLR
- Fix activation for upgraded Personal license
- Correct update url
4.3.115
- Fix activation for upgraded Personal license
4.3.114
- Fix login callback for SmugMug
4.3.113
- Update to use new license server
4.3.111
- Smaller installer
- Update Facebook permissions for August changes
4.3.110
- Update Facebook uploader for changes coming on August 2018
- Decrease time to open camera list
- Update photo timeout message
4.3.109
- Fix frozen live view
- Fix GIF encoding issues
4.3.106
- Update Facebook service version
4.3.105
- Show all MailChimp lists sorted by name
- Fix save settings for photo kiosk mode
4.3.104
- Enable Facebook 2-factor login
- Fix Facebook logout
4.3.103
- Improved Canon component
- Prevent Canon camera from timing out
- Send photo later queue imports photos from same folder as import file
- Fix preview duration 'None' slider label
4.3.102
- Album screen close button should be disabled after selecting a photo
4.3.101
- Fix startup with no license bug from the last update. Sorry about that!
- Fix brighten live view when 'using external flash' setting disabled
4.3.99
- Fix print counter for guest copy selection
- Fix Pinterest posting
- Update Facebook service version
4.3.98
- Fix settigs export for bad images
- Add DSLR version for Windows XP and Vista
4.3.97
- Get all SmugMug albums
- Fix Evernote login
- Fix Shootproof event selection
- Fix DSLR camera disconnect crash when brighten live view enabled
4.3.95
- Update Canon component in main DSLR version. B version no longer needed [DSLR]
- Fix Yahoo SMTP port number
- Fix SmugMug uploader
- Update Facebook service version
- Fix crash when adding image to green screen set
4.3.92
- Fix STMP emailing to ignore certificate warnings
- Fix crashes when adding images to green screen background sets
4.3.91
- Fix request support for photo kiosk
- Fix erroneous Mailchimp check in photo kiosk
- Other minor fixes
4.3.90
- Update Canon component to improve performance and fix take photo delay [Canon b]
- Fix in-application reset settings
4.3.89
- Add in-application reset settings
4.3.88
- Fix camera select dialog
- Fix closing application when camera uninitialized
- Fix fullscreen exiting in lock mode
4.3.85
- Fix freezing when changing themes
- Canceled uploads should not be queued
- Print prompt screen remaining time label should only be 1 line
4.3.84
- Opening links with web browser, exits fullscreen
- Fix live view error message
- Fix default theme selection
4.3.83
- Canon component reverted to older version from 4.2 [Windows DSLR]. If you need support for EOS Rebel T6, EOS 1300D, EOS Kiss X80, EOS-1D X Mark II, or EOS 80D, download DSLR.b
- Add ability to restart camera on lock up [Windows DSLR.b]
- Fix camera firmware update message
4.3.79
- Fix Send To Guest status on About screen
4.3.78
- 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
4.3.72
- Add setting to display photo progress bar [DSLR]
- Fix error when dragging file with no extension into photo layout settings
- Fix layout editor undo
- Minor UI fixes and tweaks
4.3.68
- Clear up image loading memory sooner
- Fix photo layout settings keyboard handling
4.3.67
- Fix Twitter @reply uploader
4.3.65
- Fix screen overlay mirroring
- Fix photo layout settings keyboard handling
- Fix camera sound effect for webcam photos [DSLR]
- Fix webcam photos warning to show once [DSLR]
4.3.61
- Sparkbooth DSLR now supports Canon T6 / 1300D
- Faster and improved settings import and export file format. Including smaller file size, less memory usage, and fix for encoding large and corrupt images.
- Add limited GIF uploading
- Display GIF animations in previews and prompts
- Disable printing temporarily setting 0 prints via shortcut
- Add password confirmation for lock mode
- Add setting to toggle lock mode with close mode short cut
- See 4.3 beta release notes for a full list of changes
4.2
4.2.129
- Clean up settings import
4.2.128
- Update Santa voice
4.2.127
- Optimizations to camera settings dialog
4.2.126
- Fix for animated GIF color palette
4.2.125
- Fix Send to Account Facebook login
- Remove Facebook non-native browser option
4.2.123
- Revert fix for MailChimp displaying email prompt
4.2.122
- Change Mobile settings layout
- Adjust DSLR photo time out
- Fix disabled Set Password button for Lock mode
4.2.120
- Fix prompt screen for mailing list email
4.2.119
- Update request support short system information
- Use MailChimp v3.0 service
- Mailchimp settings should prompt for email
4.2.118
- Add request support shortcut to send log and system information
- Fix SMTP verify button for unauthenticated server
4.2.116
- Facebook event upload fix
4.2.115
- Update Facebook service version
- Faster Facebook sign out
- Fix Facebook upload for mobile hotspot domain
- Save single photos is enabled by default
- Upload resize cache saved locally instead on remote folder for kiosk mode
4.2.106
- Switch back to regular mobile services
- Fix Facebook 1 x 4 strip upload error
4.2.105
- Update Mobile services
- Fix banner sizing
4.2.104
- Fix Surface 4 webcam issue
- Fix Mac SMTP permissions error
- Fix exporting of unsaved settings
- Fix misspellings
4.2.103
- Fix close mode custom action
- Other minor fixes
4.2.101
- Remove TwitPic (no longer exists) which causes Send To Guest settings to hang if selected
4.2.100
- 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
4.2.98
- Change Mandrill to use API key
- Fix custom SMTP settings
- Fix SMTP 'CPU lacks feature' error
4.2.96
- Fix photo layout delete and hide
4.2.94
- Add printer error retry setting
- Other minor fixes
4.2.92
- 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
4.2.91
- Fix Facebook login
- Fix SMTP on Mac
4.2.89
- Add STMP emailer [beta]
- Add MailGun email service
4.2.88
- Add Sparkpost email service
- "Before" Photo screen overlays
- Do not display on screen buttons in close mode
- Select camera dialog includes DSLR options
- Fix on screen keyboard for small displays
4.2.85
- Add keyboard shortcut to toggle Close Mode
- Add tooltip help for Settings > Messages fields
- Fix Windows Viewer Setup display
- Fix Facebook help links
- Guest upload screen uses less memory
- Do not initialize Mailchimp for Personal license
4.2.83
- Hide green screen controls if disabled
- Fix for Windows 10 to use native browser
4.2.81
- 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
4.2.80
- [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
- Fix email validators for new TLDs formats
- Other changes and improvements. See beta release notes for details.
4.1
4.1.105
- TwitrPix is back!
- Add Sparkbooth link to trial upload captions
4.1.104
- Disable native browser login for unsupported operating systems
- Fix MailChimp initialization on start up
4.1.103
- Fix start up photo layout preview generation
4.1.102
- Print direct to Windows setting is no longer beta
- Fix freezing layout generating from corrupt image files
4.1.101
- Fix background and overlay size warning
- Fix custom voice freeze
4.1.99
- Removed TwitrPix service (appears to be shutdown)
4.1.98
- Fix for Windows 10 native browser warning
- Fix Picasa uploader
4.1.97
- Prevent photo layout import from overwriting layouts with same name
- Increase Twitter caption to 140 characters
4.1.95
- Always show mouse for setting dialogs
- Fix flashing controls on cover screen
- [DSLR] Do not access webcam by default
4.1.93
- Enable 'Print directly to Windows' for regular Sparkbooth
- [DSLR] Update DSLR component runtime
4.1.92
- [DSLR] Fix Windows XP compatibility error in 4.1.91
4.1.91
- [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
4.1.82
- Improved test print with better scale
- Fix photo kiosk page updating when changing folders
- Fix resizing of photo kiosk page
4.1.81
- Fix no voice error
- Optimize mobile uploads
4.1.80
- 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
4.1.76
- Allow photo kiosk folder to be read-only
- Shrink large preview portrait images
- Fix pop-up errors
4.1.74
- 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
4.1.73
- Add QWERTZ on screen keyboard layout
- Enable keyboard layouts in photo kiosk settings
4.1.71
- Add option for QWERTY or AZERTY on screen keyboards
4.1.70
- Fix tumblr login
4.1.69
- 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.
4.1.65
- 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.
4.1.62
- 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]
4.1.59
- Workaround for security certificate issue on non-updated Windows computers
- Fix closing print copy selection screen
4.1.54
- Change online monitoring url
- Improve printer error logging
4.1.53
- Fix photo layout editor saving
- Changable 'Cell' prompt label
4.1.52
- Fix unresponsive printing
4.1.50
- Improved offline warnings
4.1.49
- Fix photo layout import and delete
4.1.45
- Fix Mac Developer Id issue
- Add native login for other services (fixes SmugMug's new login page)
- Email Account uploader should not require email prompt
- Fix Pinterest login cancelling
4.1.41
- Larger Twitter native web view
4.1.40
- Fix stuck session cancel
- Fix issue with incorrect time at trial start
- Twitter native login should work in Personal license
4.1.39
- Fix mobile photo urls in Send Photo Later
- Allow ZenFolio login with email
- Fix Send Photo Later confirm delete
4.1.37
- Fix white LiveView video [DSLR]
- Add ZenFolio uploader [Premium]
- Fix offline message for mobile send photo later
- Fix throttle control in Send Photo Later
- Mogreet now available in Photo Kiosk Send Photo Later
- Fix SMS url for TwitrPix, TwitPic, Img.ly, MobyPicture
- Fix yFrog uploader
- Fix Facebook guest login issue
4.1.32
- Fix cover screen
- More memory usage improvements and optimizations
4.1.31
- Fixed Photo Kiosk dialog close
- Improved Photo Kiosk memory usage
4.1.29
- Layout improvements to other prompt screens
- Workaround for Twitter login issue. Windows users, please upgrade to IE11
- Fix photo album buttons after photo viewing
- Improved memory usage
4.1.28
- Add Mogreet MMS service for texting photos to mobile
- Add timeout to selection screens
- Improve layout of prompt screens
- Fix Layout Creator to narrow screens
- Fix erroneous disabled LiveView detection [DSLR]
4.1.22
- Fix Twilio upload for non-Twitter photo services
4.1.21
- Fix Photo Kiosk file updating
4.1
- New Sparkbooth DSLR icon [DSLR]
- Streamline LiveView for better performance [DSLR]
- Fix color effect for LiveView [DSLR]
- Fix freezing on application close [DSLR]
- Add always-on LiveView option [DSLR]
- Log DSLR camera status [DSLR]
- Cover screen options to display a start image or slideshow of photos.
- Option to replace on-screen button with separate screens to select photo layouts, photo effects, and screen overlays
- Update Facebook log in screen and uploader to Facebook’s 2.0 service
- Option to resize photo size for uploads [Premium]
- Photo layout manager to hide, remove, or favorite photo layouts [Premium]
- Option to output application status to text file [Premium]
- 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 to remove any images and text objects
- Doubled limit of image and text customizations [Personal]
- Add counters for Facebook, Twitter, emailing, SMS
- Change copies on print prompt screen with keyboard using arrow keys
- Add names to counters
- Counters can be re-ordered by drag and drop
- Add photo layout actions callout button
- 'Update now' notification
- Fix slowing of frame rate in between sessions to use less CPU
- Optimize update checker
- Removed Invisible theme. Use Custom theme instead.
- Other optimizations and fixes
4.0
4.0.170
- Update Facebook login UI
4.0.169
- Fix Flickr upload
4.0.168
- Fix Facebook logout on no permission
- Fix saving of Send Delay setting
- Fix Layout Editor nudging with arrow keys
4.0.165
- Fix custom photo layout failed preview generation
4.0.163
- Fix photo layout preview thumbnails
4.0.162
- Add help for 'wrong product' activation error
4.0.161
- Fix graduation themed photo layouts
- Add recover license to activation dialog
4.0.160
- Add option to send HTML emails
- Remove Facebook photo caption. Pre-filled captions will not pass app review
4.0.159
- Use updated MailChimp service version
4.0.158
- Fix Facebook uploaders for recent changes
- Fix Photo Kiosk queue into Send Photo Later on upload fail
- Fix offline guest uploading prompt
- Fix enabled right and bottom print padding for auto scale
- Improve handling of layout cache delete error
- Fix stretched video for Windows
4.0.150
- Add email to account
- Add more upload counters
- 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 accessable in Photo Kiosk
- Submit emails to mailinglist (MailChimp) from Send It Later
- Added new stand in screen overlays
- Ding sound plays on reprint
- Sort screen overllays 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
- Add mailing list setting
- Facebook uploader should check for Create Content permission for pages
4.0.130
- Fix Pinterest uploader
- Fix Photo Kiosk printer and Send it later settings
4.0.127
- Fix GIF encoding crashes and weirdness
- Photo kiosk and album has faster and improved updates and transitions
- Photo kiosk option to display refresh button when updates available
- Add option to move item to 'back' in layout editor
- Fix photo album button thumbnail icon
- Increase max video size to 1280
- Increased layout preview display time
- Tweaks to printing alignment
- Fix Mac crash when changing webcams and themes
4.0.121
- Fix guest emailer freezing
- Cancelling or timeout of Facebook or Twitter login no longer skips upload again prompt
4.0.116
- Fix Twitter uploader error handling
- Send It Later logs uploads
- Add import button to Layout Creator toolbar
- Automatically switch photo size to imported layout
4.0.114
- Add Beach Ocean scenes screen overlays
- On screen button labels
- Change printer settings
- Move upload prompt setting into Send To Account
- Fix on screen keyboard display for dialog prompts
4.0.109
- Send to Twilio from Send It Later
- Prevent queueing of same data into Send It Later
- Fix Send It Later uploaders list
- Fix telephone format mask prompt
4.0.108
- Unified prompts to prevent multiple prompts for same information for uploading and MailChimp
- Fix saving of Twilio data
- Fix saving of telephone prompt to log
4.0.107
- 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
- Change Texting to Mobile for Twilio uploader
- Guest SMS uploader should not be in Send It Later list
4.0.106
- Fix sizing of on screen keyboard to portrait screen
- Fix numeric stepper control to show integer values
- Fix sizing of Guest upload and Facebook Like screens
- Fix Twitter uploading replacing captions in Photo Kiosk
4.0.105
- Fix on screen keyboard for portrait screens
4.0.104
- Fix widescreen photo layout rendering
- Fix layout switching when changing photo sizes
- Add enable printing setting to Photo Kiosk print settings
What is new in 4.0
- Integrated Layout Creator. Accessable from Photo Layout Settings (edit button)
- Easy layout customization with graphics and text objects
- Layout Creator has more undo levels
- Integrated Photo Kiosk mode
- Start screen settings (ctrl-2)
- Separate guest, account or page, and queued uploaders
- Screen overlays to display images over video and composite on photos
- Twilio SMS and MMS uploader in photo booth and album view
- Telephone formatted mask control for SMS and MMS uploader
- Pinterest uploader in photo booth and album view
- Custom theme to add your own images
- Pirate theme and layouts
- Football theme and layouts
- Fire theme
- Custom filenames
- Change start text font
- Change prompt text font
- New countdowns
- Count downs are positionable top, center, or bottom
- Select random count downs candidates
- Make animated gifs
- Optimize print calculations
- Optimize layout rendering engine
- Simplify custom Facebook app
- 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
- Update Adobe frameworks