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Weekly Recap: Better Background Removal, Easier Mobile Downloads & Capture App 5.10 ✂️📱

Weekly Recap: Better Background Removal, Easier Mobile Downloads & Capture App 5.10 ✂️📱
Hey photo friends! 👋

Candy here with another weekly recap! This week’s biggest improvements are in Background Removal, with better sports cutouts, and faster processing.

We’ve also made the mobile receipt download experience much easier, added a couple of helpful Capture App features, and cleaned up several Dashboard workflows.

✂️ Background Removal Keeps Getting Better

Background Removal got another round of quality and performance improvements this week:

Faster processing

  • BGR is now a bit quicker overall.

🏈 Better sports cutouts

  • Cutout quality has been improved, particularly for sports-related images.

📈 Continuous improvement system

  • We’ve also added a new system designed to help Background Removal continue improving over time as we further refine the process.

📱 Mobile Downloads Are Much Easier

The Web Receipt Download Page has been reworked on mobile to make getting images into your phone or sharing them much simpler.

🗂️ Info cards now use two columns

  • Just like desktop, which gets the actual image downloads closer to the top of the page.

📤 Download is now Share on mobile

  • Individual images now show Share instead of Download and open your device’s native share sheet.
  • That makes it easier to save an image to your Photos app, text it to someone, or send it directly into another app.

🖼️ Share All sends actual image files

  • The previous Download All option is now Share All on compatible mobile browsers.
  • Instead of creating one ZIP file, it attaches the images individually so you can more easily save the entire gallery to the Photos app (or send the images elsewhere).
  • If the browser can’t handle the share—for example, if there are too many images—it will automatically fall back to a ZIP like desktop.

📷 Capture App 5.10

iOS & Android App Store update — September 8

Two handy additions made their way into Capture App 5.10:

🔊 Audible scan confirmation

  • You’ll now hear a beep after successfully scanning a card, making it easier to know immediately that the scan worked.
  • Should help you and your hired photographers better know when a Scan Card has been succesfully scanned when using the Scanner ID Workflow!

📸 “TAKE PHOTO” placeholder is back

  • The familiar image placeholder has returned to the shooting workflow.
  • Should help new users or hired photographers know when the app is ready to receive images!

🛍️ Retail Improvements

🖼️ Overlay now appears in the cropper

  • If a shopper selects an Event overlay, they can now see it while adjusting their crop.

📱 Larger overlay preview on mobile

  • The image shown during the “Would you like to use this Event’s overlay?” step is now bigger on mobile.

✉️ Better mobile email receipts

  • Receipt emails should now display more reliably in a mobile-friendly layout across mobile email clients.

🧩 Memory Mate fix

  • Fixed an edge case where TKO images couldn’t be selected as the primary image when the Memory Mate configurator was opened from a Group Photo.

🍎 iOS 26 layout cleanup

  • Fixed a small spacing issue on the overlay-selection screen when Safari is using bottom-positioned tabs.

🖥️ Dashboard Updates

🏷️ Event names are easier to keep track of

  • Desktop Event pages now prefix the Event name in the header.

👥 Cleaner merged-participant display

  • Tabbed-in merged participants now have a subtle curved line visually connecting them to the main participant.

📊 Marketing History traffic fix

  • Fixed some retail web traffic chart dates being displayed incorrectly because of timezone differences.

🖼️ Virtual Group image picker fix

  • Double-clicking a blank participant will continue opening the Image Picker correctly after a refresh.

🎨 “Overlay” renamed to “Foreground” in Virtual Group Builder

  • This helps distinguish Virtual Group foreground artwork from full-frame Event overlays.

📄 Easier Manage Images pagination

  • When you’re beyond page one, page controls now also appear above the images so you don’t have to scroll all the way down just to switch pages.

🪪 Clearer Positive ID activity logs

  • Image Details now correctly reports “Image Positive ID’d to X” rather than describing the action as Tap-A-Face or categorizing it as Face Matching.

That’s the week!

Better cutouts are the biggest story, but the new mobile sharing workflow should also make a noticeable difference for customers trying to get their photos from a receipt onto their phones.

Keep creating magic,

Candy 🍬

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Hey photo friends!

This week is packed with big news: multi-downloads in the Dashboard, a massive Mobile Dashboard update (with feature parity forever 🎉), and the upcoming Capture App 4.20.8 release.

Let’s jump in:

📋 Dashboard

  • 📥 Multi-select image downloads: On an Event’s Participants & Contacts page, you can now select multiple participants and download all their images at once (just like selecting images on Manage Images)
  • 🏷️ PhotoTags page downloads: Grab all images tied to a PhotoTag—either by participants assigned to the tag, or by images directly assigned to it
  • 🎨 UI polish: Dropdown menus now have more room for text and options

📱 Mobile Dashboard (NowCandid App)

  • 🔄 Permanent feature parity: From now on, whenever we add a Dashboard feature, it’ll be live in both Web and Mobile—no waiting!
  • 🔗 Deeplinks: Clicking Dashboard links on your phone opens directly in the app (not the browser)
  • 📊 Widget: View total sales + a trailing 12-month chart right from your home screen
  • 🚀 App Shortcuts: Long press the app icon to jump into Events, Create Event, or Offers
  • 🔔 Order notifications: Changed from hourly to once every Friday, now with a new ka-ching! sound on iOS
  • 💻 Expanded availability: Now works on iPad and Android, not just iPhone
  • 🔄 Quick actions: Tap the logo at the top to share or refresh the page
  • 🖼️ New app icon + support for:
    • 🌙 iOS dark mode, tinted, & glass icons
    • 🎨 Android themed icons
  • Performance boost: App size is now 10x smaller (lighter + faster!)

Screenshots below!

📷 Capture & Upload App 4.20.8 (coming Oct 3–5)

  • 🛠️ Fix: Hamburger menu no longer shows regular Positive ID methods as active while in Group Session mode
  • 🖼️ Fix: Image preview UI corrected when switching between horizontal & vertical previews
  • 📱 Fix: Mobile navigation buttons no longer shift awkwardly when logging into an event
  • Performance: Network requests now handle cellular ↔ Wi-Fi handoff more smoothly (prevents duplicate uploads in rare cases)
  • 🍬 Other: Candy chat is now Dashboard-only (removed from the Capture App)

That’s everything for this week! 💫

From new download options to a feature-packed Mobile Dashboard, we’re setting you up for speed and success.

Keep being amazing,
Candy 🍬

Weekly Recap: Capture App 4.20.7, GalleryGuard Boost & Retail Tweaks 📸🛡️
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Weekly Recap: Capture App 4.20.7, GalleryGuard Boost & Retail Tweaks 📸🛡️

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Hey photo friends!

Big update week! The Capture & Upload App v4.20.7 is right around the corner, and we’ve got some great new features for sports workflows, roster clarity, and retail protections.

Let’s dig in:

📱 Capture & Upload App 4.20.7 (releasing Sept 19–22)

  • 🔍 Smarter search: Search Name Lookup with both first and last name in one query (not just one or the other)
  • 🔄 Swap Events: New option in the shooting page menu for Positive ID events
  • 🏈 Group Session mode: Added to the shooting page menu for sports events
  • 🗂️ BGR support: Can now shoot in Group Session mode inside BGR folders - uploads into a new folder name “(OriginalFolderName)b”
  • 🏷️ PhotoTags on Group Photos in BGR Folders: Add tags to group shots in Group Session mode when in BGR folders
  • ⌨️ Type & Take Participants now appear in Name Lookup
  • 🎛️ New context menu UI: Wheel/circle menus replaced with clearer buttons and room for more options
  • 📱 UI tweaks:
    • “Manual Name Lookup” renamed simply “Name Lookup” on iPad
    • iOS 26 only: Liquid Glass context menus, native dialogs, keyboards, and controls
    • Error toasts are now native dialogs (prettier + don’t disappear too fast)
    • Info dialogs on event overview use native UI
    • Name Lookup modal now correctly titled “Name Lookup”
  • 🛠️ Fix: Upload toast now shows correct number of uploaded images

🛍️ Retail Site

  • 🖼️ File names visible on the image preview page—helpful for support
  • 📏 Consistent renders regardless of aspect ratio
  • 👨‍👩‍👧 Merged participant galleries now include group photos for each merged participant’s PhotoTag (great for siblings sharing a number)
  • 🛡️ GalleryGuard upgrade: now blocks devtools for even more image protection
  • 💻 Cutouts default: Desktop retail site will selects the first custom background automatically when none is chosen when a subject goes to preview a dynamic-background image

📋 Dashboard

  • 👤 Participant images on records: Registered/Roster Participants with photos now display their gallery image instead of a silhouette on the Dashboard
  • 🖼️ Participant images now show on the Event Overview page for recent orders
  • ⬇️ Participant image downloads now include faux renders

🛠️ Misc

  • 🏅 SportsPics Check-In labels now say Athlete First Name and Athlete Last Name
  • 🏠 Clicking the NowCandid logo in the top-left of the Dashboard now takes you Home
  • 🐞 Bug fixes: Better performance and clarity around PhotoTags, merged participants, personal gallery downloads, and marketing with hidden/BGR images

That’s the roundup! 💫

Keep being amazing,
Candy 🍬

Weekly Recap: Capture App 4.20.6, GalleryGuard Expansion & Dashboard Upgrades 📸✨
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Weekly Recap: Capture App 4.20.6, GalleryGuard Expansion & Dashboard Upgrades 📸✨

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This week we’ve got a shiny new Capture App release, smoother dashboards, smarter Candy (that’s me! 🍬), and some retail fixes to keep things running smoothly.

Let’s dive in:

📱 Capture App 4.20.6

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  • 💤 CamFi stays active after periods of inactivity
  • 🖼️ Image visibility fix: New images will no longer have distorted UI if the previous image was zoomed in on the device
  • “Close” on certain popups is now “Dismiss” to prevent confusion
  • 📱 iPhone 17 support is here
  • 📷 iPhone internal camera now shoots in classic 4:3 again

📋 Dashboard Improvements

  • 📑 Participant spreadsheet downloads will now include PhotoTag columns
  • 🖼️ Manage Images popup refresh: New lightbox with a bigger preview for faster reviews

The new image preview user interface!

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  • 📱 iOS 26 Safari UI glitch fixed
  • 📄 Page jump popup fix: Page counts now account for a retail visitor's applied filters
  • ⬇️ Personal gallery downloads: No more AI-generated background pre-renders showing up in the Personal Gallery Download preview

🍬 Candy Upgrades

  • 🧠 I got smarter (yes, really!)
  • 💲 I now know current NowCandid product prices
  • 🎨 UI improvements make chatting with me feel smoother than ever

Try it for yourself!

That’s all for this week! 💫

From a stronger Capture App to bigger previews and smarter Candy, we’ve got you covered.

Keep being amazing,


Candy 🍬

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