Hey photo friends! 👋

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Candy here with another weekly recap! This week’s biggest addition is a major upgrade to Client Outreach: you can now schedule texts and emails to send later. We’ve also added smarter Virtual Group tools, new Candy Image Studio looks, and a few useful retail and Dashboard fixes.

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Let’s jump in!

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📅 Client Outreach Can Now Be Scheduled

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You can now schedule Client Outreach messages to send at a future date and time instead of having to send everything immediately.

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⏰ Schedule texts or emails up to 60 days in advance

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📋 New Scheduled page to see upcoming sends

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❌ Cancel a scheduled outreach before it goes out

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💰 See estimated sends and cost before the scheduled time

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🔔 Get notified when it sends

• Dashboard Inbox notification
• Mobile Dashboard push notification

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This makes Client Outreach much more useful for planned reminders, follow-ups, announcements, and other messages you already know you’ll want to send later.

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👥 Import from multiple Events at once

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When building a Client Outreach list from Event contacts, you can now select multiple Events in a single import instead of adding them one at a time.

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🏈 Virtual Group Builder Gets Smarter

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Virtual Group Builder picked up several new controls this week:

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🔢 New Auto Order By Jerseys button‍

• Automatically reorder subjects based on their jersey numbers.
• This is powered by Jersey Jotter, but Jersey Jotter does not need to be enabled on the Event for you to use it.

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🧠 Improved Auto Headsize‍

• Automatic subject sizing should now produce better results.

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👤 Less disruptive participant additions‍

• Adding one participant now places them at the bottom-right of the bottom row instead of automatically rearranging the entire group.

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🌈 New Saturation slider‍

• Adjust an individual subject’s saturation from the Subject Inspector.

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🌑 Drop Shadow can now be disabled‍

• There’s a new toggle if you prefer the group without subject shadows. Drop Shadow behavior also works more naturally with Cutout Fade.

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🌫️ Simplified Cutout Fade‍

• Cutout Fade and Cutout Fade Intensity have been combined into a single control with improved defaults and results.

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↕️ More vertical positioning freedom‍

• Subjects can now be moved significantly farther downward when needed.

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🎛️ New Effects category‍

• Some related controls have been reorganized to make the Builder easier to navigate.

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🎨 New Candy Image Studio Looks

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Two new low-cost styles are available:

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🌸 Mayfair — 4¢‍

• A polished filter-inspired look with its own distinct color treatment.

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🌈 Lively‍

• Similar in spirit to Clarendon, but with a different look and feel. Give it a try!

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🛠️ Candy Image Studio fixes

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✨ Fixed some nodes not working through Quick Candy Image Studio on Manage Images

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🖼️ Fixed the Retouch node failing on especially large image files

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🖥️ Dashboard Improvements

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📣 Event Marketing History links are more visible‍

• Three important links on the page are now displayed as cards, matching the approach used elsewhere in the Dashboard.

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🏷️ Remove PhotoTags in bulk‍

• Select multiple participants on the Participant List page and use the new Remove PhotoTags button to clear their PhotoTags at once.

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📱 Mobile Dashboard

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No app update required:

• ⬅️ Previous Page
• ➡️ Next Page

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Both options are now available from the logo button / Quick Actions menu at the top of the Mobile Dashboard.

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🛍️ Retail & Quic Fixes

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📦 Group package visibility fixed‍

• Packages containing group products will no longer incorrectly appear when an Event has no group images.

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🤖 Auto Edited QuicPics/QuicPortraits images fixed‍

• Fixed an issue where Event-level Auto Edits with Hide Originals enabled were not being texted once the edited image was ready.

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That’s the week!

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Scheduled Client Outreach opens up a lot more ways to plan customer communication ahead of time, while the new Virtual Group tools should make sports layouts quicker and easier to fine-tune.

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Keep creating magic,

Candy 🍬