This release brings personalized AI Portraits, a cleaner unified session gallery on the sharing screen, a refreshed guest-screen look, and a range of fixes that keep events loading, launching, and running smoothly — even offline.

AI Portraits

• Added support for Custom AI Prompts, in addition to our AI Portrait and Art Style presets, so you can write your own prompt to generate exactly the look you want.
• Added per-preset guest questions so a single custom prompt can produce a personalized portrait for every guest, using answers like their name, jersey number, or chosen theme.
• Added drag-and-drop of input images directly into AI Portrait generation, making it faster to try out specific photos.
• Added support for .JPEG files (not just .JPG) when dragging images in, so more of your photos work out of the box.
• Fixed an issue where AI Portrait buttons and text stayed in English after switching the app to another language.
• Improved how photos are cropped before AI Portrait generation, producing results that match the quality seen on LumaBooth for Apple.

Sharing & Galleries

• Replaced the separate photo, print, and GIF thumbnails on the sharing screen with a single, polished Session Gallery button that opens a full preview of every item captured in the session — photos, prints, GIFs, boomerangs, and videos.

Event Management

• Resolved an issue where events would not load or launch while the computer was offline.
• Fixed start-session camera icons not appearing on the start screen for events created in the iOS app.
• Improved stability so events launch reliably
• Improved SMS sharing reliability across devices by always saving the country code setting, even when left blank.

Camera Support

• Fixed a "video too short" error that could appear when taking a photo with a Canon camera set to RAW+JPG mode.

Appearance & Branding

• Refreshed guest screens with our new font for a cleaner, more modern look.
• Fixed the processing and countdown backgrounds appearing grey instead of black on some displays.

Payments

• Improved reliability and diagnostics for cashless payment transactions to reduce failed payments.

Virtual Attendant

• Fixed the start-screen video not playing after a session when an end-of-session media clip was configured.

Stability

• Improved background network reliability to eliminate intermittent errors during local network discovery.

This release resolves two stability issues that could prevent events from launching or photos from being captured.

Stability

• Resolved a crash that could occur when last events photos were deleted from the computer.

Camera Support

• Fixed an issue where a "video too short" error appeared when attempting to take a photo with a Canon camera set to RAW+JPG mode.

This release brings broader Canon camera reliability, smoother touch interaction in the editors, refined Welcome screen controls, and a long list of fixes for sharing, printing, AI portraits, and event migration.

Camera Support

• Added a friendly on-screen warning when a Canon shutter is blocked because the lens is retracted or no lens is attached, instead of failing silently.
• Added a clear message when a Canon camera overheats and can no longer record video.
• Fixed a rare crash when switching cameras while live view was stopping.
• Improved Canon EOS R50 reliability in 360/Slow-mo sessions so recording stops cleanly instead of leaving the camera stuck in record mode.
• Resolved a countdown freeze on Canon EOS M50 Mark II when starting video sessions by waiting for the camera to finish initializing before applying movie settings or when cancelling a session.

Photo & Video Sessions

• Fixed a freeze at the final countdown when using AI Background Removal with a custom background image with older Canon cameras.
• Resolved a Beauty Filter issue that could cause DSLR video sessions to silently fail before reaching the sharing screen.
• Square thumbnails now center-crop horizontally and crop from the top vertically so guests' faces are no longer cut off.
• Adjusted 16:9 GIF video cropping to crop from the top rather than the center, keeping subjects in frame for 3:2 photos.
• Fixed the recording duration slider in 360/Slow-mo sessions so it now shows accurate seconds across its range.
• Resolved an issue where the "memory card full" message could appear during capture even when the card was not full.
• Cleared lingering video-mode state at the start of photo sessions to prevent unexpected behavior.

Welcome Screen Editor

• Moved the Gallery button on/off toggle into the Gallery button's own edit panel for a more consistent editing experience.
• Moved the Lock button opacity slider into the Lock button's edit panel and simplified its label to "Opacity."
• Replaced the global Booth Icons toggle with per-button Show/Hide controls and editable label text on each start-session button, with hidden buttons shown at reduced opacity in the editor preview.
• Button visibility and label settings now sync through the cloud so they round-trip with LumaBooth Dashboard and iOS.

Photo Layout Editor

• Resize handles are now larger and styled to match LumaBooth on iOS and the Dashboard, making them easier to grab on touch screens.
• Selection borders and corner handles now use the primary theme color, and the rotate handle has been restyled to match iOS.
• Resize handles now scale with the canvas zoom level so they stay usable at any zoom.
• Sliders throughout settings and the editor now respond immediately to touch drag instead of requiring a press-and-hold.
• Decimal values such as 4.2 cm are now accepted in Width and Height fields when using centimeters.

Print Setup

• Removed outdated helper text for limits on number of copies.

AI Portraits

• AI Portrait improvements for preparation for Custom prompts.
• The AI Portrait progress bar now paces itself based on each preset's expected processing time.

Sharing

• Pending and sent counts on the Sharing Status detail screen now reflect the true number of items instead of being inflated by retry attempts.

Background Removal

• Fixed the trash can button so it now actually deletes background images.
• Polished the Background Removal settings with rounded card corners, correct margins, and trimmed scrollbar overlap.

Event Management

• Fixed migration of version 7 events so Welcome screens and template designs now carry over correctly into version 8.
• Custom fields added by other LumaBooth clients (web, iOS) are now preserved when an event is saved on Windows, instead of being silently stripped.

Stability

• Fixed a crash when opening the Account panel that affected a large number of users on 8.1.23.

Localization

• Improved the German translation for the Launch event button based on customer feedback.

Diagnostics

• The exact build version is now recorded in the logs, the About screen, and support emails so we can pinpoint which build a customer is running.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue introduced in v8.1.24 where, if you had an end-of-session video set in Virtual Attendant, the start screen video would stop playing after the first session and not resume between sessions.

This update focuses on stability, smoother event setup, and more flexible print and event management — including support for any characters in event names and per-event print preferences synced from your dashboard.

Event Management

• Resolved an issue where deleting all events and creating a new one could leave the start screen without any start buttons.
• Event names can now contain any character, including colons, apostrophes, and slashes — downloads, renames, exports, and deletions all handle these names reliably.
• Fixed a problem where downloading a cloud event whose name contained illegal filename characters would fail and leave the event partially synced.
• Resolved an issue where making template changes in the app could remove the template from the dashboard and iOS.

Printing

• Print automatically, Show print button, and Print to both printers are now event-level settings and can be synched to LumaBooth for Windows. Coming to the Dashboard soon.
• Streamlined Print Setup by removing rarely-used options (print sharpening, print window max, print auto-rotate) and applying sensible defaults automatically.
• Clearer wording and localization for Per Event, Per Session, and the Show print button explanation.
• Fixed the +/− signs not appearing on numeric controls in Print Setup.

Screen Editor (over remote connections)

• Resolved an issue where clicking the Done or Retake button in the Sharing Screen editor would shift the button off-screen as the right panel expanded.
• Fixed a phantom drag that could move template elements unexpectedly when toggling tabs.

These issues only occurred when using the Screen Editor over a remote desktop connection.

Virtual Attendant

• Virtual attendant videos now start promptly throughout long events, instead of taking progressively longer to begin playing as the software runs.
• Fixed a problem where virtual attendant video files with spaces in their filenames would fail to download.

Stability

• Hardened background tasks in Settings so unexpected errors no longer cause the app to close silently.

This release resolves two issues affecting cloud sync reliability — one that could silently drop your template configuration from the dashboard after making in-app changes, and one that prevented virtual attendant videos with spaces in their filenames from uploading and downloading correctly.

Cloud Sync & File Sharing

• Resolved an issue where editing a template inside the app would cause it to disappear from the dslrBooth dashboard and the iOS app, even though it continued to work locally
• Resolved an issue where virtual attendant video files with spaces in their filename would fail to upload or download from cloud storage

This release brings a number of reliability and compatibility improvements across cloud sync, virtual attendant, and general app stability.

Stability

• Improved how the app handles background operations in the Settings window and Screen Editor
• Better handling of virtual attendant asset filenames on lower-powered computers

Cloud Sync

• Improved cloud sync reliability for long sessions
• The app now notifies you if the Windows system clock is out of sync with internet time, which can affect sync
• General improvements to real-time event sync across multiple devices

Virtual Attendant

• Virtual attendant video files with spaces or special characters in their filenames now upload and download reliably
• Improved virtual attendant filename handling to be consistent with iOS

This release improves stability for Canon camera users, resolves button graphic display issues for events created from the dashboard, and enhances touch scrolling reliability across several screens.

Camera Support

• Improved stability when entering live view with a Canon camera, addressing crashes that could occur during normal booth operation

Touch Screen

• Improved touch scrolling for digital props, video timeline, and animated video overlay lists when running in touch fallback mode
• Resolved an issue where action buttons in the asset preview could interfere with touch panning in fallback mode

Customization

• Resolved an issue where Done and Retake button graphics were not displayed for events created from the dashboard; the correct graphics now load automatically without requiring a manual reset
• Fixed an issue where the default sharing screen template did not apply the correct style to both the Done and Sharing buttons

This release polishes the first-time setup experience, makes launching an event feel snappier, and fixes several issues around template previews and the guest-facing template selection screen.

Event Management

• New users are now taken straight to event creation on first launch, instead of landing on an empty Event Management screen.
• Added a loading indicator to the Launch Event button so it's clear when an event is starting, and prevented accidental double-taps from launching twice.

Template Selection

• Removed silhouettes from Select a template guest screen

Guest Experience

• The guest-facing template selection screen no longer pre-selects a template, so guests make a deliberate choice.
• Resolved paging issues on the template selection screen, including an edge case with minimal scrolling and inaccurate page indicator dots caused by variable thumbnail widths.

This update brings a more polished guest experience with live template previews, refined settings screens, and important stability fixes for Windows 11 setups.

Template Selection

• Guest-facing template previews now show simple gray boxes for where the photos go so guests see exactly what their final photo will look like.

Background Removal & Settings

• Corrected the alignment of the Background Removal settings header so it matches the rest of the settings screens.
• Fixed the color of the "Launch event" link on the final settings screen so it's clearly readable.

Stability

• Eliminated a false "Please install Windows Media Player" prompt that could appear on Windows 11 systems with Legacy WMP enabled.
• Resolved a crash that could occur when sending debug information while the clipboard was in use by another application.
• Fixed a crash that could happen while generating GIF thumbnails from videos with unusual resolutions.

Branding & Polish

• Updated the app icon to match the new website branding.
• Sharpened the logo on the About LumaBooth page so it displays crisply on all screens.
• The Release Notes link now points to the new releases.lumabooth.com page for easier access to version history.

This release brings a cleaner, more professional look to the guest experience, improves template management, and updates the app's branding to match the new website identity.

Template & Layout Management

• Improved the "Recent" layouts list so it now shows templates used across all past events, not just the current one

Branding

• Updated the application icon to match the new website favicon for consistent brand appearance across the taskbar, Start Menu, and window title bar

This is a maintenance release with internal improvements to ensure LumaBooth for Windows continues to install and run smoothly.

Improvements

• Resolved an issue that could prevent LumaBooth for Windows from launching on certain Windows configurations

This release focuses on stability improvements, addressing several crashes that affected users during sessions and at app startup.

Stability

• Improved reliability for brand-new accounts where the app could fail to sync event preferences correctly, leaving events in a broken state that prevented launching a session
• Fixed a crash that could occur when a camera was disconnected while the app was in the process of closing
• Resolved a startup crash affecting some users where a component version mismatch caused the template editor to fail immediately on launch

This release brings meaningful improvements to multi-monitor setups, faster gallery navigation, and several stability fixes that address startup crashes and session failures due to new Windows Security restrictions.

Multi-Monitor Support

• Improved multi-monitor support so that effects selection and other popups always appear on the correct screen when multiple monitors are connected

Stability & Startup

• Resolved a startup crash affecting some Windows systems where certain app components could be incorrectly blocked by Windows security features, preventing the app from launching
• Improved early crash detection so that any startup errors are now captured and reported before they can silently disappear

Events & Sessions

• Fixed an issue where corrupt or empty overlay files (0×0 pixel, unnamed PNGs) could cause sessions to fail — these invalid assets are now safely skipped
• Fixed an issue where duplicating an event could generate overlay files with missing names or missing file extensions, which could cause session failures

Photo Preview

• Fixed an issue where photo preview thumbnails appeared as squares and cropped subjects out of frame — previews now display correctly centered and proportioned

This release brings major touch-screen reliability improvements, smarter AI portrait handling, and several bug fixes for screen templates and sharing.

Touch Screen

• Improved touch scrolling and panning across all settings screens, the template editor, survey, and new template panels — especially on devices with non-standard touch drivers such as ARM-based tablets.
• Enlarged tap targets for tabs, menus, and navigation buttons so they respond to the full button area, not just the text label.
• Fixed an issue where sliders, toggles, and drag-and-drop controls could stop responding to touch input.

AI Portraits

• Added warnings when too many faces are detected, faces are too small, or no face is found — helping guests get better AI portrait results and reducing wasted credits.
• Webcam quality is now automatically increased before an AI portrait session to ensure the best possible results.
• Resolved a failure during AI background removal that could prevent final processing from completing.
• AI background removal now falls back to CPU processing if the GPU encounters an error at runtime, improving reliability on a wider range of hardware.

Screen Templates

• Reduced false screen-resolution warnings by using logical resolution for template comparisons and improving how screen size is communicated to LumaBooth Dashboard.
• Resetting a screen template no longer deletes custom elements or removes customized images — and you can now reset directly from the resolution-mismatch warning.
• Reorganized Welcome Screen settings so that live-view-related options are grouped together and hidden when live view is turned off.

Sharing & Gallery

• Improved gallery thumbnail selection responsiveness on the sharing screen with instant transitions and background loading.
• Fixed a lock button that incorrectly appeared on the sharing screen settings preview.

General

• Fixed the app failing to start when installed on a drive other than C:.

Photo Capture

• Fixed countdown not starting when thumbnails are positioned on the left or right — Photo sessions now begin correctly regardless of thumbnail placement. Previously, setting thumbnails to the left or right side caused the capture screen layout to shake and prevented the countdown from starting.

Green Screen

• Fixed green screen backgrounds and overlays failing to load after switching events — Background and overlay asset paths are now resolved at the correct time, so switching events from the navbar no longer causes green screen assets to point to the wrong event folder.

Stability

• Fixed crash when launching an event immediately after upgrading from an older version — Users upgrading from earlier dslrBooth versions that didn't persist an event selection could encounter a crash when clicking the Launch Event button. The app now guards against this condition gracefully.

This release improves reliability for start screen videos and fixes a crash affecting users on Snapdragon-powered devices.

Start Screen & Virtual Attendant

• Resolved an issue where start screen videos would appear loaded but stop playing after an event sync

Stability

• Fixed a crash that prevented events from launching on Snapdragon-based devices (e.g., certain Surface Pro models)

This release focuses on major reliability improvements for event management, smoother touch-screen experiences across the booth, and a polished sign-in and account flow — along with important fixes for photographers migrating from dslrBooth v7.

Event Management

• Resolved a significant slowdown when opening the Event Management screen on accounts with many cloud events — the event list now populates quickly and opening events is much faster
• Fixed an issue where events created during a session did not appear in the event list until the app was restarted
• Fixed an issue where cloud-only events (not yet downloaded to the current machine) could not be deleted from the Event Management screen
• Fixed an issue where, on a fresh install with an existing account, the Event Management screen only showed newly created events instead of the full event history
• All template thumbnails in Event Management are now displayed together in a grid, eliminating the need to scroll horizontally to see them

v7 Migration

• Fixed an issue where photo layouts and welcome screen images were lost when importing events from dslrBooth v7
• Welcome screen images and images attached to capture buttons are now correctly uploaded to the cloud when migrating events from v7
• Fixed a migration issue where background layers could be assigned an incorrect file path (pointing to a zip archive instead of an image)

Touch Screen

• Improved touch scrolling throughout the app, which had stopped working after the .NET 9 upgrade — dragging to scroll now works reliably on all touch-screen setups
• All guest-facing selection screens (photo templates, effects, backgrounds, digital props, and post-capture effects) now support touch panning, consistent page indicator dots, and smooth prev/next navigation

AI Portraits

• Updated the AI portrait selection and generation screens to use a dark background, providing better contrast for mirror booth setups
• Fixed an issue where the AI portrait style thumbnails were cut off or partially hidden
• Added the ability to deselect an AI style so photos can be captured without AI processing applied

Settings & Navigation

• Fixed an issue where maximizing the settings window hid the back arrow and "Launch Event" button, leaving touch-screen users with no way to return to their event
• Removed the unintended text shadow from the Print Setup settings panel that made text difficult to read
• Fixed a 1-pixel gap between the title bar and the top menu

Sharing & Account

• The Subscribe and Upgrade buttons now automatically sign you in to the website, so you no longer need to log in again in the browser
• The share status page now opens in the LumaBooth dashboard instead of the legacy fotoshare.co site
• Fixed the sign-in window so that password characters are visible, pressing Enter submits the form, and focus moves correctly between fields
• Fixed an issue where long event names in the navbar dropdown overlapped the download icon

Stability & Connectivity

• Fixed an issue where the app failed to sync cloud events when launched without an internet connection and then reconnected — events now load correctly once connectivity is restored
• Fixed an NTP time sync failure that occurred on machines where the network resolves time server addresses using IPv6, which could prevent events from syncing correctly
• Fixed start screen videos stopping playback after a cloud sync completes

This release focuses on improving the quality and accuracy of AI Portrait enhancements, giving photographers better results with less processing time.

AI Portraits

• Improved AI Portrait enhancement quality by automatically cropping tightly around detected subjects before sending the photo for processing, helping the AI focus on the people rather than background space
• Resolved an issue where slow network connections could cause AI Portrait requests to be incorrectly reported as cancelled rather than timed out
• AI Portrait images are now resized and optimized before upload, reducing processing time without sacrificing result quality
• The AI Portrait API now receives the correct aspect ratio matching the template's photo slot, improving how enhanced portraits fit into your layout

This release focuses on camera reliability — with significant improvements to Sony, Canon, and webcam stability — along with a session flow fix that kept the cancel button from disappearing mid-session.

Sony Camera Support

• Improved capture reliability for Sony cameras, resolving intermittent "Unable to Trigger Camera" failures caused by simultaneous USB access
• Resolved an issue where Sony cameras could attempt to download the same photo multiple times, causing errors and delays
• Added support for the Sony FX3A (ILME-FX3A)
• Fixed video recording and download on the Sony a7S III

Canon Camera Support

• Resolved an issue where a Canon camera physically disconnecting (USB unplugged or power lost) could cause the app to freeze and become unresponsive

Webcam Support

• Fixed a crash that could occur when a webcam disconnected at the same moment the app was generating an error message about it
• Improved the error message shown when a webcam is disconnected and its name is no longer available

Session & Capture Flow

• Fixed an issue where the Cancel button disappeared after being tapped during a photo session

Diagnostics & Crash Reporting

• Improved internal crash reporting accuracy so production errors are attributed to the correct app version, framework, and machine

This release focuses on stability improvements and reliability fixes, addressing crashes and sync issues that could disrupt your photo booth sessions.

Templates

• Resolved an issue where templates exported from older versions of dslrBooth would import with an empty layout

Virtual Attendant

• Fixed a crash that could occur when selecting a Virtual Attendant start screen asset before a Virtual Attendant folder had been configured
• Improved startup reliability by preventing sessions from launching with an incomplete Virtual Attendant configuration

Cloud Sync

• Fixed an issue where changes made to event preferences in the cloud (such as disabling background removal) were not being applied in the app

This release focuses on stability and reliability improvements, resolving several crashes and freezes that customers encountered during events, while also tightening up the Screen Editor and photo layout workflows to prevent invalid configurations.

Camera & Live View

• Resolved an issue where Canon cameras would freeze and become unresponsive after taking a photo during a multi-shot session
• Fixed a problem where live view on photo box 2 appeared dark when using Canon auto-adjust exposure with separate video settings

Screen Editor

• Fixed a crash that occurred when selecting a start screen video in the Screen Editor
• Resolved a crash when dragging layers in the Screen Editor caused by an invalid drag preview calculation
• Fixed an issue where a custom image on a capture button would reset to the default icon after the element was moved
• Fixed an issue where custom uploaded images were not saved to cloud storage and their path was not preserved when launching an event
• Improved stability when switching screen templates while an element is being dragged

Photo Layout

• Fixed a freeze that occurred when quickly selecting a preset layout before all layout icons had finished loading
• Prevented events from launching when the selected photo layout contains no photo placeholders, avoiding a blank screen during the event
• Fixed a loophole that allowed an event with an invalid layout to launch after switching layouts in the selection screen

Animated Overlays & Assets

• Fixed a crash when loading built-in animated video overlays that were stored with a legacy format from an older version of the app
• Fixed a crash that occurred when attempting to choose a Virtual Attendant start screen asset before a Virtual Attendant folder had been configured

Capture Experience

• Removed the stop button from the capture screen during Boomerang and 360 sessions, where it should not appear

Email

• Upgraded email sending to use a more reliable and secure delivery service, improving deliverability for photo share emails

This release focuses on stability improvements across camera handling, event configuration, and startup behavior, along with fixes for 360 session launching and cloud settings sync.

360 & Video Sessions

• Resolved an issue where clicking a 360 button with a custom image set would start a photo session instead of a 360 session
• Fixed an error that prevented starting a 360 or video session when only automatic triggering was configured for the event type

Event Management

• Fixed an issue where event cloud preferences failed to download for users in certain regions or network environments, preventing event settings from updating

Camera Support

• Improved stability when disconnecting or reconnecting a Canon camera during a session, reducing crashes and deadlocks
• Resolved several Canon camera reliability issues related to resource cleanup and callback handling that could cause unexpected crashes

Virtual Attendant

• Fixed a rare crash that could occur when closing the virtual attendant asset selection dialog before assets had finished loading

Stability

• Fixed a startup crash that occurred on systems running Windows in kiosk or restricted mode where the taskbar is not available

This release focuses on stability improvements that eliminate several crashes affecting template editing, first-run setup, and error dialogs reported by users in the field.

Template Editor

• Resolved a crash that could occur when opening the template editor during event setup before it had fully initialized
• Fixed a crash in the eye dropper tool caused by an outdated internal resource reference, restoring reliable eye dropper functionality in the photo layout and screen template editors
• Improved the eye dropper activation button appearance to match the style of other editor controls

First-Run Setup

• Fixed a crash that affected non-English users on first launch when the app prompted to select a language before any event had been created

Stability

• Resolved a long-standing issue where error dialogs could crash the app if the main window was unavailable or had not yet been fully displayed — the dialog now appears correctly without the overlay instead of failing

This release improves startup reliability for booths configured to launch in fullscreen mode.

Stability

• Resolved a crash on startup that occurred when the booth was set to start in fullscreen mode

This release focuses on stability improvements, resolving several crashes reported from production that could affect photographers during event setup, language changes, and camera operation.

Stability

• Resolved a crash that could occur on startup when the Windows API Code Pack library was missing or quarantined by antivirus software
• Fixed a crash when saving a template in the screen editor during event creation if the editor had not been fully initialized
• Resolved a startup crash for new users selecting a non-English language for the first time
• Fixed a crash when a camera disconnect notification arrived while the application was closing
• Resolved an issue in the Camera Wizard where an invalid color resource caused the window to fail to open

Error Reporting

• Crash reports are now grouped by error type regardless of the operating system language, making it easier to accurately identify and prioritize real issues affecting photographers
• Deployments are now tracked in the error reporting system, allowing crashes to be correlated with specific app versions more reliably

This landmark release introduces LumaBooth for Windows — a complete rebrand and platform overhaul that delivers real-time cloud synchronization with LumaBooth Dashboard, a brand-new AI Portraits feature, a redesigned event management experience, and hundreds of improvements built on a modern .NET 9 foundation.

LumaBooth Rebrand

• Renamed the app to LumaBooth for Windows, with an updated icon, splash screen, app name in the Start Menu, and refreshed visual identity throughout.
• Replaced the "Available in Professional Edition" label with clearer messaging that indicates a subscription is required.
• Updated all support contact details and help links to reflect the new LumaSoft branding.

AI Portraits

• Added AI Portraits as a new session type: guests choose a style preset, capture their photo, and receive a transformed portrait processed through the AI engine — all within the standard booth flow.
• Presets load from your LumaBooth Dashboard event configuration and display with thumbnail previews for easy guest selection.
• When only one AI style is configured, the preset is selected automatically so guests can move straight to capture.
• Added an optional Skip AI Portrait button that allows guests to bypass AI processing and continue with their original photo.
• Improved handling of slow or interrupted internet connections during AI processing, with automatic retry and a two-minute timeout to prevent the app from hanging.
• Multi-photo AI portrait sessions now show a photo counter so guests know how many captures remain.

LumaBooth Dashboard & Cloud Sync

• Introduced real-time synchronization with LumaBooth Dashboard (dash.lumabooth.com) — changes made on the Dashboard now appear in the booth app automatically, without restarting.
• New events created in the Dashboard now appear in the event list immediately, without requiring a restart.
• Added a Download button for events that haven't been fully synced yet, with a smooth progress indicator so you always know where things stand.
• Events that cannot be launched due to missing assets are now clearly marked so you won't start an event that isn't ready.
• Welcome screen backgrounds, custom session button images, image overlays, intro/outro videos, and filter selections configured in LumaBooth Dashboard now sync reliably to the booth.
• The Record on Motion setting now syncs correctly from LumaBooth Dashboard to the booth.
• The beauty filter intensity scale now matches LumaBooth Dashboard (0–10 instead of 0–100), so a level 5 in the Dashboard means 50% in the booth.
• Fixed an issue where enabling live view on the welcome screen incorrectly turned on live view during the countdown as well — these are now independent settings.
• Fixed a problem where the welcome screen background color set in the Dashboard was not being applied when the event was launched.
• Fixed the Black & White Glam filter not matching between the booth and LumaBooth Dashboard due to a naming mismatch.
• Fixed WhatsApp sharing text being missing when an event was created in LumaBooth Dashboard.
• Fixed an issue where the resolution-mismatch warning for the welcome screen appeared repeatedly on every Dashboard change instead of only once.
• Fixed an issue where making any change in LumaBooth Dashboard triggered the welcome screen editor popup unnecessarily.
• Fixed the Guest QR Code toggle not updating LumaBooth Dashboard when changed in the booth.
• Fixed intro/outro videos uploaded in LumaBooth Dashboard not syncing to the booth for 360/Slow-Mo and video sessions.
• Fixed image overlays for GIF, video, and 360 sessions uploaded in LumaBooth Dashboard not appearing in the booth.
• Fixed custom session button images uploaded in LumaBooth Dashboard not syncing to the booth.
• Added a LumaBooth Dashboard banner in the Create Event dialog and the Choose a Preset screen, making it easy to manage your events and browse the full template library online.
• Duplicating an event now also copies its experience type so the experience selection prompt doesn't reappear in LumaBooth Dashboard.
• Fixed events disappearing from the saved events list after launching an older event.
• Fixed an issue where the app moved to the background while downloading an event's assets.
• Fixed the download progress window appearing on top of other applications' windows instead of the booth app window.

360/Slow-Mo

• The Boomerang session type has been renamed to 360/Slow-Mo throughout the app to match LumaBooth and LumaBooth Dashboard.
• Added speed presets for 360/Slow-Mo clips, letting you quickly apply standard duration and speed configurations with a single tap.
• Added 1080×1080 as a square size option for 360/Slow-Mo capture.
• Fixed a problem where preset buttons did not highlight on a single click in 360/Slow-Mo settings.
• Preset 4 now syncs correctly to and from the cloud.
• Unified countdown, recording duration, and clip speed ranges with LumaBooth for consistent settings across platforms.
• Fixed wrong colors appearing in the 360/Slow-Mo video timelines.
• Fixed the Slow-Mo icon not appearing as enabled in the event management view.
• Fixed an issue where downloading and processing animations were displayed at the same time during 360/Slow-Mo sessions.

Event Management

• Redesigned the event management screen with a modern card layout, showing photo layout previews for each saved event.
• Events created in LumaBooth Dashboard or on another device now appear in the event list in real time.
• Improved the first-run experience — the event management view is shown immediately so you can see and select cloud events without being forced to create a new one first.
• When upgrading to v8 for the first time, your previous events are copied to a new folder, allowing you to return to the prior version if needed.
• After migration, events retain their original last-updated dates instead of all showing "1 minute ago."
• Fixed an issue where selecting certain events in the saved events list had no effect and the event details panel did not update.
• Fixed an issue where the app moved to the background after closing the event asset download window.

Welcome Screen & Screen Editor

• Fixed the screen editor canvas being too large for the available window area — the canvas now fits within the visible workspace.
• Fixed the Resize Design button in the orientation change dialog — clicking it now correctly resizes the design (previously, clicking No was the one that triggered the resize).
• Fixed custom session button images disappearing after saving changes in the screen editor.
• Fixed the Retake button text on the sharing screen being invisible or missing.
• Fixed welcome screen elements not being assigned correct values after a reset (for example, live view and background image not updating their size).
• Fixed a reset operation incorrectly deleting the background image — the image is now preserved after a reset.
• Fixed wrong layer types being saved for several welcome screen elements (such as the live view element, Guest QR Code, and lock button), which caused compatibility issues with LumaBooth Dashboard.
• Fixed an issue where the welcome screen background was not reloading after a cloud sync layout update.
• Added the live view element and lock/unlock button automatically if they are missing from a welcome screen template received from the cloud.
• Added a Guest QR Code element automatically if it is missing from the welcome screen template.
• Guest QR Code is now off by default on new events — it must be explicitly added.
• Set the minimum size for start session buttons to 60×60 px in the welcome screen editor, matching LumaBooth Dashboard and LumaBooth iOS.
• Updated session button icons to match the unified icon set used across LumaBooth Dashboard and LumaBooth iOS.
• Fixed the app icon appearing blurry in the upper-left corner of the main window.
• Improved menu color contrast to eliminate color vibration and meet accessibility standards, making text and dropdown arrows easier to read.
• Fixed an issue where certain settings cards had uneven rounded corners when disabled.
• Fixed the color picker not working on touch screens in both the screen editor and photo layout editor.

Photo Layout Editor

• Added Google Fonts support — text layers using Google Fonts now download and render the correct font automatically, and a warning is shown if a font cannot be loaded on the device.
• Redesigned the Add Layout workflow: layouts are now event-specific, and you can choose from preset or recent layouts when creating a new one.
• Updated photo placeholder graphics to match the unified style used in LumaBooth Dashboard and online settings.
• Updated preset thumbnail graphics with the new photo placeholder colors so they match the rest of the app.
• Renamed the Browse button to Gallery button throughout the editor.
• Removed font weight controls from all editors to maximize compatibility with LumaBooth Dashboard and online settings.
• Removed the star shape from the shapes menu (the shape remains supported in existing templates and during processing).
• Limited image uploads in the screen editor and photo layout editor to 10 MB to prevent large files from slowing the app.
• Fixed font, weight, and size dropdowns showing black text instead of white in the photo layout editor.
• Fixed text layers with an empty font size value causing a crash when an event was selected.
• Fixed text disappearing when a Google Font's PNG fallback image was missing.
• Added support for thumbnail location — you can now position capture thumbnails at the bottom, left, right, or top of the capture screen.

Sharing

• Fixed the sharing status screen not updating correctly when switching between events that had no share data.
• Fixed emails sent after a retry (when the booth was initially offline) incorrectly showing an error status in the sharing status panel even though the email was delivered successfully.
• Fixed the sharing status panel showing a French translation error for the "Sent" label.
• Guests can now tap or click to move the cursor within the email address entry field on the sharing screen when correcting a typo.
• Pressing Enter on a physical keyboard now sends the SMS (and WhatsApp message), consistent with the existing email behavior.
• Fixed the SMS sharing button using a text color that was inconsistent with other sharing buttons.
• Fixed timestamps being empty in the LumaShare media feed when filtering by anything other than "All."
• Fixed a firewall configuration issue that prevented LumaShare from connecting to the booth over a public network.
• Added more information about LumaShare and its supported devices in the Sharing settings panel.

Camera Support

• Improved live view performance for Canon cameras by running Canon EOS SDK operations on a dedicated thread, reducing lag on slower hardware.
• Fixed the app freezing when a Canon camera was disconnected — the disconnect is now handled gracefully without blocking the UI.
• Fixed black frames appearing in video playback when both the beauty filter and a webcam were in use with the "Original" filter selected.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when trying to select the background removal color in the green screen settings.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when creating a new template from the preset templates list or when deleting all templates.

Settings & Configuration

• Fixed the Post-Processing "More Information" link opening an outdated URL — it now points to the correct support article.
• Fixed More Information hyperlinks throughout the app opening a legacy Windows dialog instead of the default browser.
• Fixed the Event Folder button not opening the event's folder.
• Fixed virtual attendant file filters incorrectly allowing MP3 files to be selected in settings where only video files are accepted.
• Updated virtual attendant items that support both audio and video to indicate "MP3 or MP4" instead of just "MP4."
• Renamed Countdown Video to Countdown in Virtual Attendant settings.
• Beauty filter intensity slider now ranges from 0 to 10 to match LumaBooth Dashboard and LumaBooth iOS.
• Unified countdown, review, recording, and delay timing ranges across photo, GIF, 360/Slow-Mo, and video sessions to match LumaBooth.
• Renamed the Back button to Previous in survey questions and added a Finish button on the last question, matching LumaBooth.
• Fixed a blank survey question being added when syncing survey settings from the cloud.
• Fixed survey question sync creating a phantom blank question visible in LumaBooth Dashboard.
• Updated the green screen background removal range sliders and improved the instruction message shown when selecting a color to remove.
• Fixed the NTP error message incorrectly referencing "time.windows.com" when the app was actually using "time.google.com."
• Fixed the Screen Lock feature prompting for a PIN when locking — the PIN is now only required when unlocking.
• Fixed the overlay dimension recommendations (width × height) being swapped when the camera rotation is set to 90° or 270°.
• Removed LamaBot settings and support, which are no longer provided.
• Fixed an issue where account creation errors (such as an email address containing spaces) were silently ignored instead of being shown to the user.
• Renamed the {share_icons} email template variable to {share_icon} for consistency with other apps, while maintaining backward compatibility with existing templates.

Stability

• Fixed a crash in Booth Co-Pilot that occurred when exiting camera settings.
• Fixed the app incorrectly switching to trial mode and applying a watermark during an active paid event.
• Fixed the initial migration window appearing behind the splash screen when launching the new version for the first time.
• Fixed the app failing to launch after migration when certain event settings contained a null reference.
• Fixed the app occasionally starting a photo session when only 360/Slow-Mo or video modes were enabled.
• Fixed a race condition in motion detection that caused incorrect session types to be triggered.
• Fixed print layout exports including graphics from unrelated events as orphan files.
• Fixed a video overlay not being applied when the camera rotation was set to 0° and the video file was added by drag and drop.
• Fixed the event folder sorting order being set incorrectly when settings were modified in dslrBooth, causing events to move to the bottom of the list in other apps.
• Fixed the app not correctly tracking the session ID when the shutter was triggered in photographer mode, which caused multiple sessions to be grouped together.
• Cleaned up unnecessary diagnostic logging to reduce log file size and improve overall performance.

This release improves how dslrBooth detects and configures Windows Firewall settings, so the software connects reliably without repeatedly prompting you for permission.

Connectivity & Setup

• Resolved an issue where the firewall configuration prompt appeared every time the software started, even after settings had already been applied
• Improved firewall detection to correctly read Windows Defender Firewall rules on Windows 10 and 11, preventing false "firewall not configured" warnings
• The firewall permission request now appears as a clear confirmation dialog, making it easier to understand and approve the change

This release improves connectivity with the LumaShare app and resolves a startup crash affecting certain devices.

Connectivity

• Improved LumaShare connectivity on networks where Windows has classified the Wi-Fi connection as a public network

Stability

• Resolved a startup crash that could occur when certain VR or mixed-reality headsets (such as Meta Quest) were connected to the computer

This release focuses on internal build and deployment infrastructure improvements to ensure more reliable and verifiable software releases.

This release brings a major reliability upgrade by migrating the internal database to SQLite, introduces a built-in SMS messaging service, improves Canon and Sony camera stability, and resolves dozens of issues across sharing, screen editing, event management, and touch-screen interaction.

Messaging & Sharing

• Added a built-in SMS messaging service as an alternative to Twilio — send unlimited messages to US & Canada guests with a subscription add-on, with competitive international rates and no carrier applications required
• Guests can now press ENTER on their keyboard to send an SMS, WhatsApp message, or email without needing to tap the Send button
• Fixed an issue where SMS messages failed to send in countries that use a leading zero for local phone numbers, such as France and South Africa
• Resolved an issue where the app would retry SMS delivery indefinitely when no messaging subscription was active; a clear error message is now shown instead
• Added a 60-second delay before retrying SMS messages when the balance is insufficient, reducing unnecessary server requests
• Fixed incorrect status being shown in Sharing Status for successfully queued SMS messages
• Added a Refill Balance button directly in Sharing Status to make it easy to top up SMS credits
• SMS messages to numbers with restricted carrier permissions (Twilio error 21408) no longer generate retry attempts
• Improved the Sharing Status screen with file sizes, a View button for uploaded items, and cleaner column layout
• Fixed inaccurate print counts in Sharing Status when multiple copies were printed per session
• Email messages are now wrapped in proper HTML tags to improve deliverability and reduce spam filtering
• Fixed the WhatsApp sharing button not responding when a custom button image was configured
• Share tracking now uses the updated fotoShare API for improved security and reliability

Camera Support

• Resolved a crash that occurred when running a Boomerang session followed by a video session with Canon cameras (including the R50 and R6 Mark II)
• Added support for additional Sony camera models including the ZV-E10 II and DSC-RX100M7, with improved property parsing and error handling
• Added support for GoPro Hero 13
• Resolved an issue where exporting an event would disconnect the camera and require a software restart to reconnect

Video & Media

• Added 1080×1080 (square) as a selectable resolution in Video/360 capture settings
• Fixed an issue where adding an image overlay to a drag-and-dropped video failed when camera rotation was set to 0 degrees
• Fixed incorrect overlay size recommendations when camera rotation is set to 90° or 270°; width and height values are now shown correctly for the rotated orientation

Screen Editor & Print Layout

• Fixed text elements not appearing visually selected after being placed or edited for the first time in the Screen Editor
• Fixed the color picker not responding correctly to touch input in both the Screen Editor and Print Layout
• Fixed the layer visibility toggle in Print Layout not staying turned off after saving

Surveys & Guest Interaction

• Added horizontal text alignment options (left, center, right) for survey answer text
• Fixed a scrollbar appearing unnecessarily in the Survey Multiple Choice settings panel
• Improved the ability to reposition the text cursor using touch when entering an email address on the sharing screen
• Enlarged the SMS phone number entry field to accommodate longer international numbers such as UK mobile numbers

Stability & Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash that occurred when using Booth Copilot to navigate in and out of Camera Settings
• Resolved a freeze that could occur on the filter selection screen during certain photo sessions
• Fixed the subscription expired dialog appearing behind the splash screen instead of in front of it at startup
• Fixed an issue where retaking a photo session prevented the original print file from being deleted while it was still uploading
• Resolved an issue where the Browse Gallery button disappeared from the welcome screen after using the Retake feature
• Fixed the Sign In window appearing hidden behind the splash screen when credentials were not available
• Fixed the GIF countdown incorrectly flashing the first-photo countdown arc before displaying the arc for subsequent photos
• Fixed a database error that prevented accurate print counts from being retrieved
• Fixed the display refresh rate warning modal appearing with incorrect sizing
• Fixed desktop shortcuts not pointing to the correct dslrBooth executable

LumaShare Integration

• Fixed timestamps in the LumaShare media list so that filtering by session date works correctly on both iOS and Android
• Fixed an issue where dslrBooth appeared and immediately disappeared from the LumaShare device list on Android

Background Removal

• Improved touch responsiveness when resizing background images in AI Background Removal and Green Screen settings

Performance & Infrastructure

• Migrated the internal database from the legacy SQL CE format to SQLite, improving startup performance, long-term stability, and compatibility
• dslrBooth now automatically pauses Windows Update when it starts, preventing mid-event system interruptions
• Configured dslrBooth to prefer the high-performance discrete GPU on computers with both integrated and dedicated graphics cards
• Corrected a French translation error in "Sharing Settings"
• Updated the End User License Agreement link to always point to the latest version at dslrbooth.com/eula

This release corrects a display issue in the Sharing Status screen that could cause share counts to appear unchanged when switching between events.

Sharing & Analytics

• Fixed an issue where sharing statistics did not update correctly when switching between events that had no share activity