📸 Candy’s 12 Days of Christmas: Day 6 – Action Photography Features 🏃♀️✨
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December 19, 2024
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Hello again, energetic photographers! 🎅
Candy here, and welcome to Day 6 of our 12 Days of Christmas countdown.
Over the past five days, we’ve looked back at various 2024 upgrades, and today’s topic is all about action-packed events. Let’s highlight the Action Photography Features that truly elevated your sports and high-energy shoots this year.
Key Highlights:
Dynamic Galleries: End customers can add images to their personal gallery on the fly. As they add more shots, the personal gallery download product dynamically adjusts its price based on the image count. This means fair and flexible pricing that suits the number of images they actually want.
View Photos in Sequence (SportsPics): We introduced a handy "view photos in sequence" button. Clients viewing their SportsPics personal gallery can easily see images taken before and after any particular photo. This helps them find action shots where their face might not be visible, ensuring they never miss a key moment from a play or performance.
These features empowered action photographers to showcase entire sequences, helping clients relive each second of the excitement.
It turned browsing galleries into a more interactive, personalized experience. 🎉
Check back tomorrow for Day 7, as we continue our festive journey through the year’s top improvements.
And remember, something special waits under the tree on December 25th!
Candy here with a new batch of improvements across the Dashboard, Retail checkout, LiveLoop™, and the iOS Capture App. The biggest headline this week: Apple Pay now works across basically all major browsers, plus a feature-packed Capture App 4.22.
🛍️ Retail: Apple Pay in More Browsers
🍎 Apple Pay is now supported on Chrome, Edge, and Firefox
🍎 Including on Windows and Chromebooks. More shoppers can check out faster with fewer steps.
🧾 Manual checkout fixes
✅ Fixed an edge case where “Shipping address is same as billing” still forced shipping entry
🧹 Fixed an edge case where a prefilled participant email had trailing whitespace and blocked checkout
📱 Capture App iOS 4.22
📷 Fujifilm file names now match the camera’s file name
Helpful for keeping filenames consistent with what you see on-camera.
📺 AirPlay shows the latest/selected image by default
Think of it like a one-device, real-time mini slideshow. There’s also a Resources toggle if you prefer AirPlaying the full app UI instead.
🧩 Folder naming rule update: No underscores in folder names
Underscores are now reserved internally, so the app will prevent using them in folder names going forward.
🏷️ Selfie Check-In Station can require PhotoTag check-in
Matches the web behavior and is controlled via your Custom Offer Advanced Settings.
🫥 Check-in reference images hidden from the shooting strip
Keeps the strip cleaner and focused on the images that matter for sales.
🖥️ Dashboard: Clarity & Capability Updates
🏷️ Additional Contact badges on PhotoRoster page
Additional contacts now show a badge there, just like on the Participant List page.
🚫 Legacy Events can be marked invisible
The visibility toggle is now available on legacy event details pages too.
🍬 Candy got smarter and more capable
Improvements across: main Candy, Compare Report Candy, Image Timeline Candy, and Mini Candy.
📊 Compare Report improvements
✍️ Fixed a typo
🧠 More intelligent summary output
🧾 Reports fix: Hidden events no longer appear in the specific event selector
🌀 LiveLoop™ Fix
🧼 Cutout preview edge case fixed
Cutouts won’t show with a checkered background during the “in-progress” phase. LiveLoop™ now also excludes anything from a TKO destination folder, which resolves that temporary display issue.
✅ Check-In Label Updates
🧑🏫 Non-sports Events now use clearer labels
“First Name” → Photo Subject’s First Name
“Last Name” → Photo Subject’s Last Name
That’s the scoop for this week!
Between broader Apple Pay support, a stronger Capture App release, and clearer participant tools, a lot of little friction points just got cleaned up.
Candy here! This week’s updates are big on visual workflows: more orientation options for our 3D products, a new Calendar view for Events, and PhotoTag-powered LiveLoop™ links for better slideshow control.
Let’s jump in!
🖼️ Big Product Upgrade: Horizontal Orientation for 3D Plaques & Prints
End customers now have more flexibility when ordering these 3D-rendered products:
🎓 Graduation Plaque now supports a new horizontal design
• 🔄 Customers can switch orientations during the live 3D render
• 🖼️ Updated 2D render support included as well
🪧 Premium Plaque now supports a horizontal design
🔄 Orientation can be switched during the live 3D render
🖨️ Premium Print now supports a horizontal design
🔄 Orientation can be switched during the live 3D render
✍️ Caption preview fix: Premium Print/Plaque now correctly reflect the default “Line 2” in the 3D render before a shopper enters their own text
These updates make it easier to sell premium products even when the “best” shot isn’t a perfect vertical crop. ✅
📅 New Dashboard Event Calendar View
Prefer a more visual way to plan and review your schedule?
🗓️ Event Calendar is now available via the calendar button on the Event List page
👀 Great for spotting what’s coming up at a glance, instead of scanning a long list
🌀 LiveLoop™: PhotoTag Links
LiveLoop™ just got more flexible:
🏷️ PhotoTags now have LiveLoop links
• Found in a couple places on the PhotoTag page in the Dashboard
• Pulls in new images automatically, just like a normal LiveLoop™
🧾 Cleaner titles & history
• LiveLoop page now shows the Event name in the title bar, history, and links
• PhotoTag links show as: PhotoTagName – EventName
Perfect for running separate slideshows per team, division, day, or group without juggling multiple Events. ✨
🖥️ Dashboard Improvements
🧹 New “Clear” button in Manage Images select mode (clear selections without re-entering select mode)
📋 PhotoRoster uploads improved:
• 📞 Additional phone columns now ignore parentheses (like main phone)
• 🔀 Columns can be in any order (matching Event roster upload behavior)
🔗 Fixed Image Details lightbox link for images manually removed on Participant Details
🧾 Positive ID Code PDF sorting updated:
• A–Z participants with no PhotoTag
• Then PhotoTags A–Z (participants A–Z inside each)
• Then blank cards at the end
🛍️ Retail & Check-In Updates
🚫 Invisible Events are now truly inaccessible
• If an Event is marked invisible, its retail site + check-in pages now show an “Event is no longer available” screen
🌎 Positive ID check-in phone formatting helper
• If an existing registration code has a phone without “+”, we’ll append “+1” to default to US country format (unless it already starts with “+” for another country)
🧩 Fixed a retail site crash when the Statuette Ornament was included in a package
🛡️ iPhone GalleryGuard now loads faster
🛠️ Misc Fixes & Improvements
🖨️ Backprinting updates for existing Events when your business info is updated (previously it was locked to whatever info existed when the Event was created)
✉️ Fixed a strange edge case where email-only participants wouldn’t send if another email in the queue contained “.@”
✅ Improved email validation across all web check-ins
That’s the week!
Between horizontal premium product designs, PhotoTag-level LiveLoops™, and a Calendar view for Events, you’ve got a lot more control over how things look and how you run the day. 💫
Candy here. This week’s headline is a big glow-up for the Graduation Plaque, plus some helpful tweaks to marketing tools, downloads, and retail previews. Here’s what changed.
🎓 Graduation Plaque: New Look, New Render
The Graduation Plaque just got a major upgrade:
🆕 New physical product with an updated finish and feel
💰 Cost increase of $0.48 to match the upgraded production
🌀 New live 3D render on the store sheet (like the Premium Print/Plaque experience)
🖼️ 2D render on the checkout sheet for performance
🔻 Diamond Press upsell removed (was available on the previous version, may return in the future)
Perfect for seniors and ceremonies where your customers want a keepsake that really feels special.
🔒 Private Image Download Gallery
The Private Image Download Gallery now has a new landing popup.
It’s there to help Event Organizers understand why using this tool can be more secure and efficient than receiving all of the Event's images in bulk via a single large download.
📊 Dashboard Updates
📈 Marketing History chart improvements
Chart is now hidden when empty, so no more blank space
You can switch between Daily / Weekly / Monthly views
📑 Participant Download spreadsheet upgrades
Now includes each participant’s retail gallery URL
Handy if you’re doing third-party marketing or need to drop direct links into outside tools or messages
🛍️ Retail Site Improvements
🔘 Photo Button render updated
New live render that is larger, cleaner, and has no background
Matches the style of other renders
Render assets are about 15% smaller (faster loads)
⬇️ Press-and-hold download wording fixed
Previously, when there was no paid full-res product, the popup said “medium res” even though it was actually full resolution
Now correctly says “free download” in that situation
📸 Press-and-hold download fixed on QuicPortraits
Press-and-hold works properly again on QuicPortraits Events
🖼️ Luxe Prints artwork fix
Store sheet no longer shows artwork overlays on Luxe Prints (since art isn’t available on that product, yet!)
🧱 3D render cropping fix
Horizontal previews for 3D renders on the store sheet now use a center crop, not a full-fit that squished the image in the render, whoops!
🧩 Misc / QuicPics GO
👥 Group image flagging in QuicPics GO!
You can now flag images as Group Photos in QuicPics GO! via the Dashboard
Works similarly to other non-Quic event programs and keeps group images organized for marketing and gallery behavior
That’s it for this week!
One very fancy Graduation Plaque, and some nice quality-of-life fixes on the retail side.
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