Sparkbooth 5 Release Notes
Recent changes to Sparkbooth 5 and Sparkbooth DSLR
5.0.186 Download: Windows Mac Windows Canon DSLR Windows Nikon DSLR
- Switch to new services server
5.0.185 Download: Windows Mac Windows Canon DSLR Windows Nikon DSLR
- Fix false warning for DSLR license
5.0.184 Download: Windows Mac Windows Canon DSLR Windows Nikon DSLR
- Remove slower non-legacy GIF encoder
- Update licensing component
5.0.183
- Fix importing of telephone numbers into Send Photo Later queue
5.0.182
- 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
5.0.181
- Add Send to Account Facebook notification
5.0.180
- Use external browser to sign into Send to Account Facebook uploaders
- Remove unused Facebook permissions
- Remove Custom Facebook App which is no longer supported
5.0.178
- Display save errors as notifications
5.0.177
- Fix Facebook Post Share uploader
- Display Facebook access expire date
- Remove Google Photos (Picasa). Google has ended the Picasa service. Check out Sparkbooth 6, which uses the new Google Photos service
5.0.176
- Extend Facebook login duration
5.0.175
- Trim portrait, no rotation correctly for webcam
- Update legacy GIF encoder
5.0.173
- Fix Facebook login for mobile and hotspot domains
5.0.172
- Fix for Windows 10 1903 update
5.0.171
- Login in using external browser for SmugMug and Flickr
- Fix Facebook link sharing
- Fix more Facebook login warning
5.0.169
- Fix login verification for some uploaders
5.0.168
- Fix Facebook login and update service version
- Fix SmugMug uploading
5.0.166
- Add Guest upload prompt setting
5.0.165
- Update for new Facebook login
5.0.164
- Fix listing of Facebook pages
5.0.163
- Update to new Twitter service
- Removed MobypictureTwitter, TwitPic, TwitrPix, and YFrog uploaders
5.0.162
- Fix photo layout rendering timeout
- Fix default print copies in photo kiosk and album
5.0.161
- Remove incomplete uploaders
5.0.160
- Fix SmugMug login
- Smaller install
5.0.158
- Fix listing of Facebook pages
5.0.157
- Smaller installer
- Allow Facebook 2-factor login
5.0.156
- Update Facebook uploader for changes coming on August 2018
- Decrease time to open camera list
- Update photo timeout message
5.0.155
- Update GIF encoding
- Fix updating start button text
- Fix photo kiosk prompts showing email and telephone twice
- Fix cached Twitter name from previous session
5.0.153
- Update GIF encoding
5.0.152
- Fix updating start button text
5.0.151
- Optimize camera initialization
5.0.150
- 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
5.0.146
- 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
5.0.143
- Add start session key-press setting
5.0.141
- Update Facebook service version
- Adjust settings layout for long text labels
5.0.140
- 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
5.0.138
- Enable Facebook 2-factor login
- Fix Facebook logout
5.0.137
- Fix cycling of photo effect selection
5.0.135
- Fix layout filename text rendering
5.0.134
- 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
5.0.133
- Album screen close button should be disabled after selecting a photo
5.0.132
- Fix photo size setting for portrait photos
- Revert max photo size setting
5.0.131
- Fix handling of bad Facebook authorization token
5.0.130
- Fix saving of new layout items in editor after changing item settings
5.0.128
- Fix layout reset setting switching back to default
5.0.127
- Fix resetting of photo effect for DSLR
5.0.126
- Fix for json import
- Fix for importing photo layout with same name as existing
5.0.125
- 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
5.0.122
- Fix ordering of photos for layout export
- Allow brighten live view if use external flash settings is disabled [Canon]
- Fix reading of modes for new Canon cameas [Canon]
5.0.121
- Add support for Canon T7i, 77D, 6D Mark II, SL2 [Canon DSLR]
- Fix photo kiosk handling of split and duplicate layouts
- Fix print counter for guest copy selection
- Fix Pinterest posting
- New photo layout JSON export format
- Update Facebook service version
- Fix display of split photo layout for guest selection
5.0.117
- Fix display split layouts in layout selection screen
- Fix layout editor print preview for display split and duplicate print layouts
5.0.116
- Fix settings export for bad images
5.0.115
- 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
5.0.113
- Fix crash when camera disconnects and brighten live view is enabled
5.0.112
- 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 canceled from prompt screen
- Fade out overlapping animated text prompts
- Only upload errors are displayed as notifications
5.0.110
- 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
- Add setting to display photo progress bar [DSLR]
- Add settable photo layout background color
- Add before photo messages
- Optimizations for on-screen message display
- Display text prompts with animation
- Change trigger photo text and display as notification or prompt
- Update Facebook photo urls
- Add Vivial Connect as mobile sending option
- Add 'None' theme
- 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
- Add option to show more than one layout on selection screen
- 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
- Add subfolder options for saving singles, originals, and GIFs
- Add create subfolder options for startup only or hours after midnight
- Enter key press on prompt screens will submit
- Photo effect selection screen disables selection buttons for less than 2 selectable effects
- Add in-application settings reset
- Email and mobile senders will prompt for information if uninitialized and save into queue
- Uploaders will be reinitialized when internet status changes
- Allow upside down configuration of camera
- Setting for camera flash color and transparency
- ESC press exists photo kiosk screens
- 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
- Add layout checker to remove bad images
- UI tweaks
- Move gif generation after printing
- Fix SmugMug uploads