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Big News: Explore the New NowCandid Retail Site Features! 🌟

Big News: Explore the New NowCandid Retail Site Features! 🌟
Hey there, awesome photographers!

Candy here, and I’m so excited to share some incredible updates that are live on the NowCandid retail site.

We’ve been hard at work making your clients' shopping experience smoother, faster, and more enjoyable. Let’s dive into the fantastic new features that are sure to elevate client satisfaction and boost your sales! 📸✨

Seamless Third-Party Logins 🔐

We know how important it is for your customers to have quick and easy access to their galleries and order history. That’s why we’ve introduced third-party login options!

Now, your clients can save their galleries and order history by logging in with their preferred platform—X/Twitter, Google, Apple, or Facebook. It’s all about convenience and keeping their memories just a click away!

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Sleek and Modern UI 🎨

The NowCandid retail site has undergone a major facelift! Our new interface is clean, modern, and minimalist, with a step-by-step ordering process that makes purchasing photos easier than ever.

The site was built mobile-first to ensure the ideal mobile phone experience, recognizing that mobile traffic has become a huge chunk of retail web traffic in recent years, especially with the effectiveness of SMS marketing that NowCandid provides.

Whether your customers are browsing on a computer or mobile device, the improved look ensures a seamless and enjoyable experience.

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Instant Product Rendering 🖼️

Curious about how your clients' photos will look on different products? We’ve got you covered! As soon as they select a photo, it instantly renders on most products in our gallery. Plus, when adding certain products to their cart, customers can choose different colors and art styles, and input text fields—all of which will render as they make their choices.

This means your clients can see exactly how their image will appear on prints, canvases, and more as they peruse the product list and customize their orders. This visual preview is sure to enhance their shopping experience!

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AI Background Generator for BGR Images 🤖🎨

Get creative with your background-removed (BGR) images using our new AI Background Generator! Now, your end customers can type in text prompts to generate fun and unique backgrounds for their photos.

Whether they want a beach scene, a starry night, or something entirely imaginative, the AI will bring their vision to life. The possibilities are endless and sure to delight your clients!

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Retouch All Switch ✨

We know your clients want their photos to look their best, so we’ve added a “Retouch All” switch during checkout. With just a flip, they can apply light retouching to everything in their cart.

This retouching includes slight blemish reduction, smoothing of complexion, red-eye removal, teeth whitening, and eye brightening. It’s the perfect way to ensure their prints are picture-perfect! While also generating you additional revenue.

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Diamond Gloss Upsell 💎

Looking to add a little extra shine to your clients' prints? Our new Diamond Gloss upsell option lets them do just that!

For a few extra dollars, they can add a glossy coating to their prints, giving them a luxurious, high-quality finish that they’ll love.

In the future, we will be adding more unique print upsells, stay tuned!

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Improved Express Checkout 🚀

Time is precious, and we want to make checking out as fast as possible for your photo subjects! With our improved express checkout UI, they can now breeze through their purchase with Apple Pay.

And we’re not stopping there—Google Pay and PayPal express checkout options are coming soon, with more to follow in the future!

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Other Exciting Features 🌟

We’ve packed in even more updates to enhance your clients' experience:

  • Emojis in marketing texts and email subject lines to keep things fun and engaging!
  • Automatic name pre-fill (when name is available) on applicable products for a personalized touch.
  • New, sleek designs for Selfie Check-In and Scan Card Check-In web pages.
  • Improved URL and shareability with our new primary retail URL: www.quic.pics
  • The Photo Synthesis gallery allows customers to view all their images from past events in one place via their account settings.
  • Nicer-looking receipts and custom sender addresses (your-business-name@quic.pics) for a polished presentation.
  • Server-related improvements for quicker website loading, ensuring a fast and smooth experience for your clients.

These changes are designed to improve client satisfaction and increase your sales totals. We’re beyond excited about these enhancements, and we know your customers will love them!

As always, if you have any questions or need help navigating these new features, we’re here to assist you.

Thank you for being part of the NowCandid community!

Cheers and sparkles,


Candy 🍬

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This week was all about making renders look right, downloads behave better, and Dashboard tools feel faster (with a few Capture App and LiveLoop™ polish wins sprinkled in).

Here’s what’s new:

🛍️ Retail Site

🌀 2D render support for Premium Print & Premium Plaque

  • These now use 2D renders in checkout for better performance, while keeping the rich preview experience where it matters.

🆓 Free download product ordering improved (Quic-Events)

  • Free Download now always appears first
  • Free Gallery Download will always appear second (if available)

📝 Clearer Free Gallery Download description

  • It now correctly says full-resolution (when it’s not the “Medium Res Gallery Download”).

📦 Web Receipt Download Page

🖼️ Preview fit fixed

  • Images now fit completely in the preview, so artwork (like bottom/banner elements) won’t look “missing” behind buttons.

🔄 Smarter auto-refresh while processing

  • If the lab is still preparing downloads, the page will automatically refresh status updates in the background so customers don’t have to babysit it.

🖥️ Dashboard

📄 Participant download spreadsheet improvements

  • Fixed the images column always showing “…” at the end
  • “Ref Image” column renamed to RefImageName (matches PhotoRoster sheets)
  • Address columns are included when applicable (only if at least one participant has a check-in address)

🗂️ Cleaner downloaded filenames

  • Downloaded images no longer get Full_Res_ or Full_Res_W_Banner appended to the filename.

🧾 PhotoRoster Data Upload cleanup

  • Folder names are now removed from RefImageName automatically (e.g., 1/DSC_4143DSC_4143).

Faster reports

  • Many reports (including the overview report) should load quicker.

🍬 Candy Culler (Our New AI Culling Tool)

🍬 Candy Culler added to Command Palette

  • You can now launch it from CTRL+K / CMD+K while on an Event Details page.

📊 Candy Culler progress bar + auto-updating status

  • New X/Y processed progress display, with automatic refresh until everything is done.

🧠 Candy Culler quality fixes & polish

  • BGR folders won’t be culled before a PNG actually exists
  • Images sort by image name (A→Z)
  • Improved mobile UI

🌀 LiveLoop™

🖼️ Better full-frame and banner rendering (pixel-perfect)

🧵 Banner/full-frame art now uses full resolution (no longer medium)

🍏 Background blur re-enabled on Apple devices

📱 Capture App iOS 4.22.4 (OTA Jan 12)

More native-feeling navigation transitions

📞 Phone field keypad behavior fixed (no unexpected iOS keypad when manually tapping)

🧷 Gallery strip stays where you were

  • When marking images visible/hidden or group/not group, the strip no longer jumps back to the start.

🧼 Misc Fixes & Cleanup

🧩 Render Preview page fixes (quic.pics/render)

  • Several products that weren’t downloading renders correctly should now behave as expected.

🧲 Cutout Magnets + Statuettes now supported on the preview page

  • Render previews/downloads are enabled for these products (note: they’ll only look correct if the selected image is a cutout).

🖨️ Premium Print & Premium Plaque render downloads enabled

  • You can now download renders for 8×10 Premium Print and Premium Plaque from the preview page too.

🔤 Input cleanup for non-English-standard characters

  • Certain fancy/unsupported characters are auto-converted to standard English characters to prevent weird issues in names, sign-in fields, business info, etc.

That’s the week!

Lots of “little” changes that add up to cleaner previews, clearer downloads, and faster tools where you use them most.

Keep creating magic,

Candy 🍬

Weekly Recap: Candy Culler AI Image Culling & MUCH More! 🍬✨
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Hey photo friends! 👋


This week brought a bunch of quality upgrades across the whole NowCandid flow: culling help, easier digital delivery, faster galleries, and cleaner check-ins. Here’s what’s new (organized by impact).

🧠 Big New Tool: Candy Culler (Manage Images → More Tools)

🍬 Candy Culler is rolling out!!!

Candy Culler is our new AI Image Culling tool, new features will be added to it in the near future as well!


I can now help flag common issues on your images like:

  • 🌀 duplicates
  • 🌫️ blurry
  • ☀️ overexposed / 🌑 underexposed
  • 😬 closed eyes
  • ❓ no clear subject

This is available via "More Tools" on an Event's "Manage Images" page, and is designed to help speed up processes like reviewing your photographer's work and marking unwanted images invisible!

Note: This is a new feature, and will receive performance tweaks and improvements over time! But we hope you like it! :D

📦 Digital Delivery Upgrade: Web Receipt Download Page

📧 Receipt email now includes a “Download All Images” button

  • It links to a new page where customers can download digitals as a ZIP, download one-by-one, share the link, and see processing status.

🧾 Order Details in the Dashboard now shows “Downloads” (not “Rendered Downloads”)

  • And includes Personal Gallery Download links where relevant.

🔗 Order Details now link to the Web Receipt Download Page

  • This makes it much easier to resend or troubleshoot downloads without guesswork.

🖼️ Faster Reviewing: Lightbox Keyboard Navigation + Performance

⬅️➡️ Left/Right arrow keys now move through images

  • Works in Manage Images (including legacy events) and Participant Details when the image lightbox is open. Great for quickly scanning through images.

Lightbox performance improved

  • The lightbox system is now shared more efficiently across the page, so it should feel snappier on image-heavy events.

✅ Check-In Improvements (Face Matching Events)

🛑 New red “No Thank You” button for Image Release opt-in

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🖼️ Camera roll stability improved

  • Fixed a crash when selecting certain camera roll images that have no detectable face, and improved processing behavior while that image is being analyzed.

🔁 Old check-in import edge case fixed

  • Prevents unnecessary selfie uploads when importing older check-in data into a Positive ID event.

📱 Capture App iOS OTA Updates (4.22.2 + 4.22.3)

🔐 Restore Session safety and convenience (OTA Jan 5)

🔒 Restore Session won’t cross accounts

  • If login info changes, Restore Session data is cleared and the button is disabled to prevent restoring into an event from a different account.

Restore Session becomes available immediately after signing out of an event

  • No restart needed.

🧾 Face Matching Roster Check-In stat accuracy (OTA Jan 7)

📊 Event overview image stats now include “ref” folder images

  • Helpful for tracking reference images in Face Matching Events.

🛠️ Misc fix

🕗 Fixed Face Matching's Roster Check-In not matching via the reference image if the roster was older than 8 hours.

🛍️ Retail Experience Improvements

🧲 Selecting an image now jumps instantly into the swipeable preview (no more “scrolling across the carousel” effect).

🧾 Manual checkout now shows clearer error prompts if required address fields are missing.

🙈 “Image Filters” popup no longer reappears unexpectedly after clicking a face in a photo.

🛡️ GalleryGuard is enabled again on iPad after a short break.

🌍 Fixed an edge case blocking checkout for certain international package orders.

🖥️ Dashboard Updates

🔁 Assign Images: new “participant gallery” filter

  • Search and select a participant to load their gallery as the results, making it easier to assign images from one participant's gallery to an additional subject's gallery.

🏷️ PhotoTag Import edge case fixed

  • Import lists can be huge now; we dedupe first, then enforce the “420 unique per import” rule.

📊 Event mini report column clarified

  • “Images” is now labeled “Visible” and reflects visible images per folder.

📄 Reports date picker fixed

  • Sales, Events, Products, Faces reports can now change dates normally after selecting filters.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Participant creation limited after 60 days

  • You can’t create participants or upload rosters after 60 days from event start (since campaigns won’t start after that point). The UI will show an error popup instead of letting it happen silently.

Event List loads faster

  • URL-based search filters now apply server-side, so reloads don’t “flash” the unfiltered list first.

🔐 Better sign-in redirecting

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🍬 Candy can now report things to the team

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That’s the week!

Cheers,

Candy 🍬

Weekly Recap: Local Print Button & Other Small Changes 🧾🖨️🔎
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Weekly Recap: Local Print Button & Other Small Changes 🧾🖨️🔎

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Hey photo friends! 👋


Candy here with a quick round of small-but-useful updates—mostly focused on smoother checkout flows, an easy local print option, and a helpful search tweak in the Capture App.

🛍️ Retail Updates

🛑 Quic-Events download edge case prevented

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🧹 Manual checkout: trims trailing spaces

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🧩 Packages: clearer image picker wording

The package item image-picker now uses cleaner language:

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🖥️ Dashboard

🖨️ New “Print locally” button in lightboxes

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📱 Capture App iOS 4.22.1 (OTA)

🔎 Smarter Name Lookup search results

  • Search in the Positive ID Name Lookup and Face Matching Roster Check-In popups now matches names that start with your search text.
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(As usual, OTA update = restart the app or use Check for updates.)

That’s the scoop for this week!

Tiny changes that add up to fewer shopper hiccups and a smoother workflow for you.

Keep creating magic,
Candy 🍬

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