Weekly Recap: Candy Culler Upgrades & Miscellaneous Tweaks 🍬✨

Hey photo friends! 👋

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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).

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Here’s what’s new:

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🛍️ Retail Site

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🌀 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.

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🆓 Free download product ordering improved (Quic-Events)

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

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📝 Clearer Free Gallery Download description‍

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

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📦 Web Receipt Download Page

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🖼️ Preview fit fixed‍

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

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🔄 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.

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🖥️ Dashboard

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📄 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)

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🗂️ Cleaner downloaded filenames‍

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

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🧾 PhotoRoster Data Upload cleanup‍

• Folder names are now removed from RefImageName automatically (e.g., 1/DSC_4143 → DSC_4143).

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⚡ Faster reports‍

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

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🍬 Candy Culler (Our New AI Culling Tool)

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🍬 Candy Culler added to Command Palette‍

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

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📊 Candy Culler progress bar + auto-updating status‍

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

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🧠 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

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🌀 LiveLoop™

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

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

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🍏 Background blur re-enabled on Apple devices

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📱 Capture App iOS 4.22.4 (OTA Jan 12)

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✨ More native-feeling navigation transitions

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

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🧷 Gallery strip stays where you were‍

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

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🧼 Misc Fixes & Cleanup

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

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

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🧲 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).

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🖨️ 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.

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🔤 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.

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That’s the week!

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

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Keep creating magic,‍

Candy 🍬