Sparkbooth

Sparkbooth create a dynamic party experience. Create an instant photo booth for your special event with just a computer and webcam, and make DIY photo booth area for you and your guests have a blast taking photos and creating memorable keepsakes.

Sparkbooth turns any computer with a webcam into a full screen photo booth kiosk. It includes additional options to automatically send photos to a printer, and/or share photos online on Facebook, Twitter, SmugMug, Flickr, Posterous, tumblr, or other services.

What is new in this release:

• [Premium, DSLR] Green screen to dynamically replace backgrounds with your own images. To access this feature, go to Camera settings (press ctrl-3 to display) and enable from the Green Screen drop down list. The green screen feature for webcams remains as an experimental beta - it only recommended for DSLR cameras.
• [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. Posts the photo to the configured Facebook account or page, then your guests can share the post from their Facebook account. Using this option does not require Facebook app review for custom Facebook apps
• Post photos to Facebook event pages
• Updates to SmugMug, Facebook, and Picassa service
• [Premium, DSLR] Faster Photo Kiosk file cache reloading. If you restart Photo Kiosk, it will start up quicker without having to rebuild the cache
• [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. "Display Doubled Copies" is designed for duplicate layouts, so 1 printed copy is shown as 2 copies in print prompt. "Even Numbered Copies Only" is used for printers that prints an strips on 1 sheet and cuts into 2 copies, so this setting can be used to prevent a blank half sheet.
• No focus icon is displayed in lower right corner when Sparkbooth loses focus
• Other changes and improvements. See the release notes for details.

What is new in version 4.1.104:

• 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
  dd "Beach Ocean Scenes" screen overlays (see video above)
• Add on screen button labels
• Improved printer settings for clarity
• Improved prompt setting for clarity

Requirements:

Webcam

Limitations:

10-day trial, watermark on output