Hey photo friends!

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We’ve got a bunch of tidy little upgrades this week—making rosters cleaner, products better, and the Capture App easier to use on busy Positive ID shoots. Here’s what’s new:

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📋 Dashboard Improvements

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👥 Extra Contacts on Positive ID Rosters: Now supported, just like with PhotoRosters

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🏷️ Auto-create PhotoTags: Uploading a Positive ID Roster with new tags? They can now be created automatically in the Event at the same time

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📜 Image Details history: Now shows manual unassignments for better tracking

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🛍️ Retail Site Updates

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🎓 Graduation Plaque: Text now renders live on the retail site

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🎓 Graduation Tassel Frame: Text now renders live on the retail site, and features a gold gradient text instead of plain white, and has a new matching stock example

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🖼️ New Print Products: 10×18 Print and 10×18 Group Photo now available in the Custom Offer Creator & Editor

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📱 Capture App 4.20.3 (iOS)

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🔠 Alphabetical PhotoTags: Tags are now sorted A–Z

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📌 Persistent PhotoTag filter: Name Lookup will keep your selected filter until you change it or remove it—great for shooting one team at a time

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💻 New iPad UI for Name Lookup: Multiple sortable columns + participant image counts in green (easy to see who’s been photographed already)

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⚡ Better performance: Faster Name Lookup when working with large rosters

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📷 Camera support: Sony 7RM3A now supported

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🔄 Auto-rotation fixes for vertical images with CamFi & Canon Wireless

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📡 Canon Wireless connections working again with the Capture App

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🛠️ Small but Mighty Fixes

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🏷️ Retail shipping & billing default now set to “Select” instead of "Alabama"

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📑 Updated templates for PhotoRoster/Positive ID Roster spreadsheets

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📂 CSV roster uploads now supported (not just Excel files)

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🔍 Ctrl+F search now works on the Web Dashboard's Blog page

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📏 Better DPI conversions in uploader & image details for cm → inches situations

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👤 Positive ID Roster fixes for a bug that caused some images to assign to additional Participants

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🖼️ Retail Groups tab cutouts now display properly as JPEGs when originals are hidden on the retail site

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That’s a wrap for this week! 💫

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From cleaner rosters to new products, these changes should make your workflow smoother and your galleries better.

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Keep being amazing,‍

Candy 🍬

Hey there, photo friends!

We’ve got more PhotoTag goodness this week, along with some handy Capture App improvements and small workflow wins. Here’s what’s new:

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🏷️More Ways to Use PhotoTags in the Dashboard

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• • Assign PhotoTags to Participants right from the Participant Details page
• • See PhotoTag images on the Participant Details page for quick reference
• • Filter Participants by PhotoTag from the Participant List page
• • PhotoTags now appear on Scan Cards—assigned tags will print right under the participant’s name
• • Participant galleries on retail now include group photos from their assigned PhotoTags

📋Smoother Roster & Participant Management

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• • Contacts created via scan cards, rosters, Tap-A-Face, or generic check-in are now fully editable like normal participants—no more “blank” contacts
• • Roster uploads no longer require you to manually remove parentheses in your files (one less cleanup step!)

📱Capture App 4.20.2 Highlights

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• • Use cellular while connected to CamFi or Canon Wi-Fi (great for maintaining uploads while tethered)
• • Force cellular use via the Resources page if needed
• • App badge now shows the number of unuploaded images
• • Sort and filter by PhotoTag in Name Lookup to speed up team or group sessions
• • New UI improvements, including:
  
  • • Fullscreen card scan popup on iPhone
  • • New “Choose Participant” popup design
  • • Native iOS-style dropdowns and toggle switches for a cleaner, faster feel

🖼️Small Retail Site Improvements

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• • When cropping an image with a background selected, the cropper now shows the background so you can see exactly how it will look
• • Jersey Jotter filter combos are now inclusive—meaning “Black + 0” will only show black jerseys with the number 0, not all black jerseys or all 0 jerseys

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That’s it for this week!

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Lots of small changes adding up to smoother workflows and better gallery organization. 🏆

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Keep being amazing,

Candy 🍬

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High school homecoming weekend is packed with photo-worthy moments

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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.

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Below is a quick look at each event, the opportunities it presents, and the NowCandid tools that help you make the most of them.

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🎉 Homecoming Parade – Kicking Off the Celebration

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• • Selfie Check-In™: Let parade participants register with a quick selfie before kickoff. Face Matching will tag them automatically later.
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• • Roam & Shoot: Focus on faces & emotional moments, not journalistic shots. The system will do the rest!
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• • PartyPics™: Upload images in real-time for attendees, parents and students to view instantly.
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  💡 Every identified face is a potential sale. Automation ensures you don’t miss anyone.

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📣 Pep Rally – Spirit & Smiles

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• • Selfie Check-In™: Continue building your attendee database for the weekend.
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• • LiveLoop™: Display photos on the big screen in real-time to build excitement.
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  💡 More personalized photos = more likely purchases.

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🏈 Football Game – Under the Lights

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• • Face Matching™: Match images to fans, players, and band members automatically.
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• • JerseyJotter™: You can even let fans filter photos by jersey number for easy finds.
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• • Live-Upload: Deliver shots before halftime!
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• • LiveLoop™: Show photos on the big screen during breaks for instant crowd buzz.
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  💡 Thousands of game photos become searchable and personal, boosting sales.

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👑 Homecoming Court – Crowning Moments

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• • Prepare: Add nominees to Face Matching™ ahead of time with Selfie Check-In™!
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• • Background Removal: Instantly turn sideline shots into elegant portraits.
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• • Live-Upload: Provide those crowning shots well before the night’s over.
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  💡Court images have built-in demand, your social pics will encourage bigger package sales!

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💃 The Dance – A Night to Remember

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• • 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.
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• • Digital Backgrounds: Offer multiple themed or elegant options for portraits, our real-time background removal makes it easy.
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• • Photo Booth + LiveLoop™: Between NowCandid's Photo Booth Mode & LiveLoop™, you have multiple upsell options that create more photos and more positive energy!
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  💡 Multiple background choices can lead to one image being purchased multiple times!

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🚀 Why It Works

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NowCandid™ turns homecoming into a personalized, real-time, high-volume photography experience—without extra staff.

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• • Efficiency: Automation handles matching, sorting, and delivery.
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• • Delight: Participants see their photos fast and without searching.
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• • Profitability: More sellable images, quicker turnaround, and premium offerings = better margins.

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A typical homecoming weekend is jam-packed with memories in the making.

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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.

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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.

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In short, NowCandid’s software and workflows allow you to capture the full spirit of homecoming‍

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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.

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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.

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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!