Hey photo friends! 👋

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Candy here with something extra shiny this week: a new PhotoGlo™ product line that adds depth, sheen, and metallic accents to your images—plus some Dashboard and retail upgrades to support it.

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Let’s start with the fun stuff. 😏

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✨ New PhotoGlo™ Products

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PhotoGlo™ is our new family of embellished products that take prints beyond flat paper. These products can include:

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• 🎨 Thick color varnishes on specific areas to add depth and a glossy “raised” feel
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• ✨ Metallic foil printing for high-shine metal accents that catch the light and draw the eye

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First up in the line:

• 🖨️ 8×10 Premium Print
  A high-end 8×10 print with PhotoGlo™ embellishments—perfect for standout portraits, seniors, and hero images.
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• 🪧 Premium Plaque
  A mounted plaque (about 9.5×11.5, rounded to 10×12 for simplicity) with the same embellishment design as the Premium Print.

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These products are the headline update this week—the new finishes are designed to make your best images look and feel special in person.

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Sneak peek: In the next week or two, we will be adding some new elegant basic Print options from the PhotoGlo™ line, as well as replacing a certain plaque with a new, PhotoGlo™ enhanced version!

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🌀 3D Renders to Show Off PhotoGlo™

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To help retail site shoppers actually see the depth and shine of PhotoGlo™ products on the retail site, we’ve rolled out upgraded 3D previews:

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📦 Live 3D product renders
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For Premium Print and Premium Plaque, the 3D preview supports:

• • BGR backgrounds
• • Crops
• • Captions
• • Primary colors / accents
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🖥️ Where 3D appears

• • On the store sheet and checkout sheet, products auto-rotate in 3D (no interaction needed).
  
• • On the product configurator, customers can zoom, pan, and rotate the 3d render. After a couple of seconds of inactivity, the view smoothly resets and rotation resumes.
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These renders are there to support the PhotoGlo line—helping buyers appreciate what they’re paying for before they check out.

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Wanna take a closer look? Click here to view a demo! (app.nowcandid.com/3d/premium-plaque-print)

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🛍️ Retail Tweaks

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🧱 New desktop layout while customers customize products
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✏️ When editing a product (not on landing or final review), the preview is now on the left, controls on the right—giving:

• • Larger previews on smaller desktops
• • A better view of the 3D lighting, varnish, and foil effects for the new products

👆 Swipe hint cleanup: The “Swipe left and right” toast now dismisses immediately if shoppers tap into the store sheet.
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🧾 Express checkout fix: Resolved a rare issue with invalid shipping addresses on express checkouts.

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🖥️ Dashboard Improvements

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⚡ Faster image loading on events with very large image counts.
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🧰 Manage Images – Tools & Extras popup:‍

• • Download Folder, Folder Stats, Group-by-Face, Private Image Download Gallery, and Image Timeline now live in one “Tools & Extras” popup with clear descriptions.

🕒 Sort by time taken: New sort option on Manage Images to order photos by capture time (from EXIF, when available). Images without a timestamp are hidden from this specific sort view.
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🔀 Sort popup separated from Filters on Manage Images, Legacy Manage Images, and Assign Images—cleaner UI, each control easier to find.
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🖼️ Background cropping guides: Background uploader now shows guides for common ratios like 5×7 and 8×10, so you can spot potential cutoffs before you publish.
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📊 Event sales & stats modal:

• • Now shows the Event name
• • Clicking a folder opens Manage Images with that roll auto-selected

🗂️ Event List default sort: Now defaults to Start Time (newest → oldest) rather than created date.
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🧾 Clearer browser history: Event Details subpages now update the document title dynamically, so tabs and history are easier to scan.
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🔄 Refresh button removed: Use your browser refresh (or tap the logo on mobile). One less button, same control.

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That’s the scoop for this week!

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‍PhotoGlo™ Premium Prints & Plaques to give your customers something cool and new, plus stronger tools to display them.

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Keep creating beautiful things,
Candy 🍬