High school homecoming weekend is packed with photo-worthy moments

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From the parade and pep rally to the big game, homecoming court, and the dance. For photographers, it’s a whirlwind. But with NowCandid™, even a small team can cover it all efficiently and profitably.

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Below is a quick look at each event, the opportunities it presents, and the NowCandid tools that help you make the most of them.

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🎉 Homecoming Parade – Kicking Off the Celebration

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• • Selfie Check-In™: Let parade participants register with a quick selfie before kickoff. Face Matching will tag them automatically later.
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• • Roam & Shoot: Focus on faces & emotional moments, not journalistic shots. The system will do the rest!
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• • PartyPics™: Upload images in real-time for attendees, parents and students to view instantly.
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  💡 Every identified face is a potential sale. Automation ensures you don’t miss anyone.

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📣 Pep Rally – Spirit & Smiles

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• • Selfie Check-In™: Continue building your attendee database for the weekend.
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• • LiveLoop™: Display photos on the big screen in real-time to build excitement.
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  💡 More personalized photos = more likely purchases.

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🏈 Football Game – Under the Lights

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• • Face Matching™: Match images to fans, players, and band members automatically.
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• • JerseyJotter™: You can even let fans filter photos by jersey number for easy finds.
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• • Live-Upload: Deliver shots before halftime!
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• • LiveLoop™: Show photos on the big screen during breaks for instant crowd buzz.
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  💡 Thousands of game photos become searchable and personal, boosting sales.

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👑 Homecoming Court – Crowning Moments

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• • Prepare: Add nominees to Face Matching™ ahead of time with Selfie Check-In™!
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• • Background Removal: Instantly turn sideline shots into elegant portraits.
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• • Live-Upload: Provide those crowning shots well before the night’s over.
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  💡Court images have built-in demand, your social pics will encourage bigger package sales!

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💃 The Dance – A Night to Remember

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• • Selfie Check-In™ at the Door: The best time to get Check-Ins!
  
  
  • Even if someone checks-in again, that's no problem! Get everyone to do it as they funnel into the dance.
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• • Digital Backgrounds: Offer multiple themed or elegant options for portraits, our real-time background removal makes it easy.
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• • Photo Booth + LiveLoop™: Between NowCandid's Photo Booth Mode & LiveLoop™, you have multiple upsell options that create more photos and more positive energy!
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  💡 Multiple background choices can lead to one image being purchased multiple times!

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🚀 Why It Works

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NowCandid™ turns homecoming into a personalized, real-time, high-volume photography experience—without extra staff.

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• • Efficiency: Automation handles matching, sorting, and delivery.
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• • Delight: Participants see their photos fast and without searching.
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• • Profitability: More sellable images, quicker turnaround, and premium offerings = better margins.

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A typical homecoming weekend is jam-packed with memories in the making.

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For a photographer, it used to mean juggling notebooks of names, printing hundreds of proofs, or spending days in post-event labor. Now, with tools from NowCandid™, a single photographer (even operating solo) can confidently cover the parade, pep rally, game, court, and dance – and do it in a way that’s both fun for students and profitable for the business.

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By using features such as Selfie Check-In™ and Face Matching™ to ensure everyone’s identified, FreePics™ and LiveLoop™ to deliver excitement in real time, and Photo Booth and AI-powered backgrounds to offer creative products, you transform the event photography workflow from chaotic and labor-intensive to smooth, high-tech, and engaging.

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In short, NowCandid’s software and workflows allow you to capture the full spirit of homecoming‍

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Every candid laugh, every triumphant cheer, every dance floor twirl – and get those images into the hands of the people who will cherish them, almost as fast as the memories are made.

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This means happier clients, more sales, and a homecoming weekend where the photographer can enjoy the process as much as everyone else enjoys the photos.

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Here’s to using technology to work smarter, wow your customers, and make homecoming (and many more events to come) a win-win for everyone involved!

Hey there, photo friends!

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This week’s updates are small but mighty—because behind the scenes we’re cooking up some bigger projects that we can’t wait to share with you soon.

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For now, here’s what’s fresh in your NowCandid™ Dashboard:

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👆 Tap-A-Face… from the Web Dashboard!

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You’ve always loved Tap-A-Face in the field—now you can do it right from your Dashboard.

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From any image’s Image Details Page, head to the Participants tab and click the new Add via Tap-A-Face button. From there:

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1. Click a spot on the image where a face is
2. Enter the contact info for the person

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This will instantly create a new Participant in your Event, kick off Face Matching™, and start marketing their gallery right away. 📸💌

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📇 Roster Contacts, Upgraded

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Contacts you add through Rosters are now much easier to work with! They’ll behave just like your regular Contacts & Participants—meaning:

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• They’re fully editable
• They can be assigned multiple images without the previous first-image requirement

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No more clunky workarounds—just smoother, faster contact management. 🙌

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This change will also improve adding Contacts via the "Create Participant" button, as well as Contacts who add themselves to the Event via a Positive ID Event's Simple Check-In.

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That’s it for this week!

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Stay tuned—because some very cool things are coming your way soon. 👀✨

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Keep being amazing,‍

Candy 🍬

Hey there, photo friends!

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Candy here with some sweet new updates from your NowCandid™ Dashboard.

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We've got a powerful new coaching tool, a fun new product to sell, and a bunch of workflow-boosting fixes to round it out.

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Let’s dive in! ✨

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🆕 New Feature: PhotoCoach

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Introducing PhotoCoach—your new secret weapon for improving the quality of your photographers’ photos over time! 🧠📷

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With PhotoCoach, you can:

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• • Review images from your Events and flag them with issues like "Acceptable," “Duplicate,” “Exposure Issue,” “Cropping Issue” and more (and make your own categories too!)
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• • Track photographer photo quality over time
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• • Send automatic feedback reports to your photographers with a breakdown of image counts & issue counts

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It’s perfect for helping your team take more sellable images—leading to happier clients and stronger sales!

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Find it now under Tools & More on your Dashboard and start coaching like a pro. 💪

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Note: PhotoCoach is not new for CORE™ users (CORE™ is our sister-software at Candid Color Systems™), but it's new to NowCandid™! And it's had some feature improvements recently so it is now web-based! Woo!

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🧩 NEW: 8×10 Acrylic-Backed Puzzle

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Puzzle fans, rejoice! 🎉 You can now sell a 56-piece acrylic-backed 8×10 puzzle, complete with cute live-rendered previews on the retail site.

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Why customers will love it:

• • Unique gift or keepsake
• • Durable acrylic & display-worthy

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🔗 URL Filtering Just Got Smarter

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Now when shoppers apply filters on the retail site, those filters update the URL automatically—making filtered views shareable with friends & family!

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Not much more to say about this one, just a cool touch! :)

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🛠️ Misc Tweaks & Fixes

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A roundup of small but mighty changes:

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• 📥 Dynamic Personal Gallery Downloads can now be purchased by shoppers via Favorites!
  
  • ○ A great addition for action sports—gives customers a “buy all” option that scales with the number of images selected, even when shopping from an All Gallery.
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• 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Group-by-Face filter popup now shows only unique faces
  
  • ○ Applies to new Events only—re-run Group-by-Face on past Events if needed!
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• 🗂 BGR Folders are editable again via the “Edit Folder” option
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• 🖼 Retail site now scrolls past the cover photo if a filter is selected from the initial popup
  
  • ○ A smoother experience when arriving to an All Images gallery
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• 🧍‍♀️ Selfie Check-In button transforms post-Face Matching
  
  • ○ It now becomes a second Retail Site button after expiration
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• 🧾 Invoice History tool now displays all past invoices, not just recent ones

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That’s everything for this week! 💫

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Whether you're giving photo feedback, selling puzzles, or just tidying up your workflow—we’ve got your back.

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More soon!
Candy 🍬