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QuicPics Is Becoming FreePics! 📸✨ Here’s What’s Changing:

QuicPics Is Becoming FreePics! 📸✨ Here’s What’s Changing:
You may notice some familiar names looking a little different around our platform.

That’s because we’re making a few big naming changes! 🍬

QuicPics is now FreePics.


QuicPics GO! is now FreePics GO!


QuicPortraits is now FreePortraits.

Don’t worry — the Programs you know aren’t going anywhere! This update is all about making our platform easier to understand, especially for photographers who are just getting started. 🙌

Note: And if you did not know - the "GO!" stands for "Gallery Only!" since that Program delivers free images via one URL and not directly texting your Participant every image like standard FreePics.

Why FreePics? 💡

As our platform has grown, so have the number of Programs, tools, and Workflows available when creating and managing Events.

That’s a great problem to have, but it also means the names we use need to do a better job of helping photographers understand what each option actually does.

FreePics gets right to the point. 📷

The FreePics Program allows photographers to provide images to participants for free, while FreePics GO! brings that same idea to our pay-as-you-go image delivery workflow. FreePortraits follows suit, giving the portrait-focused Program a name that fits naturally alongside them.

For longtime users, it may take a little getting used to. But for someone creating their first Event and deciding which Program is right for them, we think these names make those choices much clearer.

Clarity is something we’re continually working to improve across our platform, and sometimes that means revisiting things that have been around for a long time. ✨

And speaking of things that have been around for a long time…

So, What Happens to the QuicPics Name? 👀

We’re not saying goodbye to QuicPics.

Quite the opposite.

We’re freeing it up. 🚀

The QuicPics name has a lot of history within Candid Color Systems, Inc. and with our founder, Jack Counts Jr.

Long before the software, tools, and photography platform we have today, QuicPics was part of the story that eventually grew into PartyPics, Candid Color Systems, and even Glamour Shots.

Jack’s photography story began more than five decades ago photographing college parties and building a business around getting those photos back to customers quickly. That early operation grew into PartyPics and ultimately helped launch Candid Color Systems in 1972.

Over the decades, the company continued building around many of those same ideas that started it all: speed, innovation, and finding better ways to get photos into customers’ hands. ⚡📸

That same entrepreneurial spirit eventually helped lead to ventures like Glamour Shots, which became one of the most recognizable photography brands of its era.

So, when we started thinking about where we’re headed next, QuicPics felt like a name worth bringing back to center stage.

And no, we're isn’t spilling all the beans just yet. 🍬🤐

But freeing up the QuicPics name gives us room for something exciting coming soon. 👀✨

Pardon Our Dust! 🛠️

This is a pretty sweeping change.

We’re updating QuicPics to FreePics, QuicPics GO! to FreePics GO!, and QuicPortraits to FreePortraits throughout our platform, documentation, resources, and more.

With that many places to update, there’s always a chance we missed a spot. 😅

If you run into something that still says QuicPics when it should say FreePics — or if anything seems off or isn’t working quite right following the change — please let us know!

We apologize for any short-term confusion while everything gets switched over, and we appreciate your patience as we make the transition. 💜

FreePics is here, and QuicPics isn’t gone. It’s just getting ready for its next chapter. 🚀

Cheers,

— Candy 🍬

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Hey photo friends! 👋

This week’s headline is a big one: Client Outreach is here. It’s a powerful new way to connect with your customers outside of event-based marketing—and it opens up a ton of new possibilities for growing your business.

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📣 NEW: Client Outreach (SMS + Email)

Client Outreach is a brand-new messaging system that lets you send texts and emails outside of your event campaigns.

👉 Learn more here: www.nowcandid.com/blogs/big-news-introducing-client-outreach-sms-email

What it can do:

📩 Send one-off emails and texts to past customers

📊 Track engagement (opens, clicks, bounces, etc.)

📂 Build contact lists from:

  • Events (with or without matched images)
  • Uploaded spreadsheets
  • Or both combined

🤖 Candy-powered email creation

  • Candy can write and design your outreach emails for you—including subject lines—so you don’t have to mess with formatting or HTML.

Why it matters:

This unlocks a ton of real-world use cases, like:

  • Sending Selfie Check-In links after an event
  • Promoting future bookings to past customers
  • Sharing All Images Galleries for action/sports events
  • Notifying customers about new uploads (like group photos)
  • Sending surveys or follow-ups

💸 Pricing is simple:

  • $0.01 per 10 emails
  • $0.01 per SMS (per segment, and longer texts may be 2–4 segments)

This is one of the most powerful tools we’ve added in a while!

🛍️ Retail: Better Products & Previews

✨ The following products will now always have the SoftTouch finish

  • Premium Prints
  • Premium Plaques
  • Luxe Prints
  • Titled Luxe Prints (coming soon)

🖼️ Improved 2D & 3D renders (especially Luxe)

  • More accurate lighting and better overall presentation.

🎯 3D renders prioritized in store sheet

  • The first three supported products now show as 3D when available.
  • Premium products take priority, but Luxe can now appear too depending on your offer.

Faster, higher-quality background generation

  • Better results, quicker turnaround.

📝 Caption fields no longer require every line

  • Customers can fill what you want, skip what they don’t.

🖥️ Dashboard Improvements

🔎 Smarter search across events & reports

  • Partial matches now work helping you search your events when you can't remember their exact names.
  • E.g. “mustang prom” will let you find “Mustang High School Prom 2025”.

Faster reports & charts

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🎨 New “Green Screen” node in Candy Image Studio

  • Instantly convert backgrounds into a green screen for use with your other editing workflows.

🧾 More flexible Offer creation

  • You can now duplicate any existing Price Level when creating an Offer, not just your own or prebuilt ones.

💳 Accounts must now have ACH set up before creating events

  • This has been a point of confusion for some users for some time.
  • By simply requiring ACH info, we can avoid a lot of accounting confusion for photographers down the line!

💰 New “Payout Breakdown” on Order Details

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📱 Capture App 5.4.2 (iOS & Android)

🛠️ Fixed an issue where the background removal popup would reappear after confirming and exiting shooting mode.

That’s the week!

Client Outreach is the star of the show here—it gives you a whole new way to stay connected with your customers beyond the event itself.

Pair that with better product presentation and faster tools, and you’ve got a strong upgrade across the board.

More coming soon! 👀

Candy 🍬

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Hey photo friends! 👋

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🖼️ Retail: Better Luxe 3D Renders

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🧾 Dashboard Fixes & Improvements

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Hey photo friends! 👋

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