I will be reviewing Social Booth in more depth in the coming weeks along with 2 other players bringing new photo booth software to market. I did verify that it does not use the Adobe AIR platform. I suspect that Social Booth is written in Adobe Flash Builder. I will note that my initial impression was a bit of a sluggish feel to the software, similar to Sparkbooth. This is a library provided by Canon that I have written my own software on and it works very well. I noticed is that the new camera functionality, DSLR in particular, is written on top of the Canon E-DSDK. Social media use may be a risk factor for mental health struggles among emerging adults and that social media use may be an activity which emerging adults resort to when dealing with difficult emotions. Don't worry the Design Shop templates will be made compatible with Social Booth once this is figured out. You are already on the path of researching different photo booth software options because your needs and budget are unique. Photo Booth Solutions couldn't be reach to get this confirmed (I am sure they are swamped with interest). One difference is that it appears Social Booth only supports an overlay PNG. The means to create a new template is similar to Breeze in that you enter the values for each photo spot into the settings screen. On top of this there is a handful of preset layouts and the ability to create custom layouts. SMS support (uses 3rd party SendGrid for SMTP functionality).Post to Facebook, client and business page support.Animated GIFs (always fun and recently added to Photoboof) Pros: Photo Booth Connected is a super cool software that can be added to Photo Booths to optimize business.This software allows users to instantly upload and share photos (taken on photo booth) onto social media.Automatic print functionality or user initiated prints.A huge thanks to Photo Booth developer, this is such an amazing software. At a high level this looks like PBC with camera functionality. Do you agree with Photo Booth Internationals star rating. The feature set will look quite familiar to most of you that have used Photo Booth Connected 2012 PBO Disruptive Awards Winner. Since this product is so new it is doubtful that it has near the extensive customization capabilities as Breeze. So it is a bit higher than Breeze but does look considerably more straight forward to get up and running.
There is a free trial and the price point on the software is $299.
So far the launch has been quiet but you can pick it up today from their website. I have just downloaded and installed the product and have not had time to do a thorough review, but my initial impression is that this could be a real player in the photo booth space. Photo Booth Solutions has released their new offering Social Booth to compliment their great sweet of programs. Here we are in the last month of the first quarter of 2013, WPPI is ending and we have a new photo booth software player.