Weekly Recap: Tap-A-Face from the Dashboard & Smarter Roster Contacts 👤✨
By
Candy
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August 8, 2025
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3
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Hey there, photo friends!
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.
For now, here’s what’s fresh in your NowCandid™ Dashboard:
👆 Tap-A-Face… from the Web Dashboard!
You’ve always loved Tap-A-Face in the field—now you can do it right from your Dashboard.
From any image’s Image Details Page, head to the Participants tab and click the new Add via Tap-A-Face button. From there:
Click a spot on the image where a face is
Enter the contact info for the person
This will instantly create a new Participant in your Event, kick off Face Matching™, and start marketing their gallery right away. 📸💌
Manage Images -> Details, Logs, and More-> Participants -> Add via Tap-A-Face
📇 Roster Contacts, Upgraded
Contacts you add through Rosters are now much easier to work with! They’ll behave just like your regular Contacts & Participants—meaning:
They’re fully editable
They can be assigned multiple images without the previous first-image requirement
No more clunky workarounds—just smoother, faster contact management. 🙌
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.
These kinds of Contacts will just show a silhouette for now, which we may adjust down the line!
That’s it for this week!
Stay tuned—because some very cool things are coming your way soon. 👀✨
High school homecoming weekend is packed with photo-worthy moments
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.
Below is a quick look at each event, the opportunities it presents, and the NowCandid tools that help you make the most of them.
🎉 Homecoming Parade – Kicking Off the Celebration
• Selfie Check-In™: Let parade participants register with a quick selfie before kickoff. Face Matching will tag them automatically later.
• Roam & Shoot: Focus on faces & emotional moments, not journalistic shots. The system will do the rest!
• PartyPics™: Upload images in real-time for attendees, parents and students to view instantly. 💡 Every identified face is a potential sale. Automation ensures you don’t miss anyone.
📣 Pep Rally – Spirit & Smiles
• Selfie Check-In™: Continue building your attendee database for the weekend.
• LiveLoop™: Display photos on the big screen in real-time to build excitement. 💡 More personalized photos = more likely purchases.
🏈 Football Game – Under the Lights
• Face Matching™: Match images to fans, players, and band members automatically.
• JerseyJotter™: You can even let fans filter photos by jersey number for easy finds.
• Live-Upload: Deliver shots before halftime!
• LiveLoop™: Show photos on the big screen during breaks for instant crowd buzz. 💡 Thousands of game photos become searchable and personal, boosting sales.
👑 Homecoming Court – Crowning Moments
• Prepare: Add nominees to Face Matching™ ahead of time with Selfie Check-In™!
• Live-Upload: Provide those crowning shots well before the night’s over. 💡Court images have built-in demand, your social pics will encourage bigger package sales!
💃 The Dance – A Night to Remember
• 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.
• Digital Backgrounds: Offer multiple themed or elegant options for portraits, our real-time background removal makes it easy.
• Photo Booth + LiveLoop™: Between NowCandid's Photo Booth Mode & LiveLoop™, you have multiple upsell options that create more photos and more positive energy! 💡 Multiple background choices can lead to one image being purchased multiple times!
🚀 Why It Works
NowCandid™ turns homecoming into a personalized, real-time, high-volume photography experience—without extra staff.
• Efficiency: Automation handles matching, sorting, and delivery.
• Delight: Participants see their photos fast and without searching.
• Profitability: More sellable images, quicker turnaround, and premium offerings = better margins.
A typical homecoming weekend is jam-packed with memories in the making.
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.
By using features such as Selfie Check-In™ and Face Matching™ to ensure everyone’s identified, QuicPics™ 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.
In short, NowCandid’s software and workflows allow you to capture the full spirit of homecoming
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.
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.
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!
Candy here with some sweet new updates from your NowCandid™ Dashboard.
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.
Let’s dive in! ✨
🆕 New Feature: PhotoCoach
Introducing PhotoCoach—your new secret weapon for improving the quality of your photographers’ photos over time! 🧠📷
With PhotoCoach, you can:
• 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!)
• Track photographer photo quality over time
• Send automatic feedback reports to your photographers with a breakdown of image counts & issue counts
It’s perfect for helping your team take more sellable images—leading to happier clients and stronger sales!
Find it now under Tools & More on your Dashboard and start coaching like a pro. 💪
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!
It takes a little getting used to, but once you are, it's super easy and super fun!
🧩 NEW: 8×10 Acrylic-Backed Puzzle
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.
Why customers will love it:
• Unique gift or keepsake
• Durable acrylic & display-worthy
Even the little detahced pieces in the top right live-render, yay! - Theme: Liquorice
🔗 URL Filtering Just Got Smarter
Now when shoppers apply filters on the retail site, those filters update the URL automatically—making filtered views shareable with friends & family!
Not much more to say about this one, just a cool touch! :)
🛠️ Misc Tweaks & Fixes
A roundup of small but mighty changes:
📥 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.
🧑🤝🧑 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!
🗂 BGR Folders are editable again via the “Edit Folder” option
🖼 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
Candy here with your scoop on all the sweet new updates from this week! 🍬
Let’s get right into it...
📸 Big News: PhotoTags Now Work as a Filter!
PhotoTags just got a major glow-up! 🌟
Instead of being a separate tab, they’re now integrated directly into the Filters section on the All Images Gallery. That means they now play nicely alongside JerseyJotter™ and Group-by-Face!
Whether you're shopping for cheerleaders, bands, dancers, or any other tagged group—this change makes it smoother than ever to find just the photos you care about.
Did you know? NowCandid is headquartered in Oklahoma City! Thunder Up!
🧠 Big News: Group-by-Face is Now a Filter Too!
Group-by-Face fans rejoice! 🎭
Group-by-Face has been transformed into a Filter, too! Instead of whisking you away to a new page, selecting a face now just filters the All Images Gallery to show photos featuring that face. You can even browse faces via the Face filter menu.
And yes—it works with PhotoTags and JerseyJotter™, so you can filter for a specific face, a jersey number, AND a PhotoTag Group all at once. Woo!
Yup, it even got his blurry face over Cason Wallace's shoulder!
🧾 Big News: Invoice History in Profile Settings
Ever had an invoice go missing in your email inbox? We've got you covered!
You can now view and download past invoices directly from your Profile Settings page on the Web Dashboard. Whether you're keeping things tidy for tax season, tracking your account activity, or just trying to find that one receipt from a few months ago — this new Invoice History section gives you quick access to every invoice tied to your account.
No more digging through old emails. Just head to Settings → Profile → Invoice History and boom — organized, downloadable, and ready whenever you need it.
Another small quality-of-life boost to keep things running smoother behind the scenes. 🎟️✅
Accessible via Profile on the Web Dashboard.
⚙️ Other Notable Changes
🔍 “Looking for More?” Button + All Images Filter Popups
We’ve added a new “Looking for More?” button at the bottom of personal image galleries — perfect for subjects who didn’t find quite everything they were hoping for. If your Event has the All Images Gallery turned on, this button will guide shoppers over to that gallery for a broader look.
And with all the recent upgrades like PhotoTags™, Group-by-Face, JerseyJotter™, and improved gallery tools, we’re confident that the All Images view is more helpful and shoppable than ever before!
🎛️ Bonus: When filters are enabled for your Event, the All Images Tab and All Gallery URL will now open a popup that clearly explains what filtering options are available for that particular event — making discovery even easier for your customers.
Clicking any option will open up that Filter's popup as well!
🤳 “Is This the Face?” Popup
When someone takes or uploads a selfie for Selfie Check-In™, we now ask them:
“Is this the face for which you want to find matching images?”
This simple question will reduce the number of parents who accidentally upload selfies of themselves instead of their child!
We'll keep trying to get parents to not upload their own selfies :)
📱 QR Code Download for All Images Gallery
New button alert! You can now easily download the All Images Gallery QR Code to share at events—perfect for action sports and other workflows that rely on promoting the All Images Gallery.
Accessible via "Retail Site" from an Event's Management page.
📦 Order Details Page Improvements
Want to know when an order was mailed out? You got it.
The Order Details page now shows the "mailed" timestamp when applicable, helping both photographers and customers stay informed.
Accessible via "Orders" from an Event's Management page.
🧰 Misc Fixes & Improvements
🧮 The JerseyJotter™' image counts when selecting Filters will now be affected by PhotoTag & Group-by-Face Filters as well
🫥 "Unassigned Images" count now excludes hidden/test images
💖 Favorites tab now works when picking images for multi-image products
🔒 GalleryGuard™ is all set for iOS26 — screenshot blocking stays strong
📴 Texting “NOPE” now unsubscribes users from all marketing campaigns
✨ New icon for AI-generated backgrounds — it’s clearer for those unfamiliar with the standard generative AI symbol
Did you know? We provide subjects with free AI background generation!
That’s it for this week!
As always, thanks for tagging along on all the improvements we’re rolling out to make your NowCandid experience smoother, smarter, and more fun 🎉
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