Hey photo friends! 👋

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This week’s update is a big one. The new Capture App v5 for iOS has officially landed with major performance improvements, a refreshed UI, and some helpful workflow upgrades.

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On top of that, Candy Culler just got significantly faster, retail got a couple new themes, and several tools across the Dashboard have been refined.

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Let’s jump in.

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📱 Capture App v5 (iOS) — Major Upgrade

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Capture App Version 5 brings a full UI refresh, major performance improvements, and several new quality-of-life tools for shooting events.

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⚡ v5: Faster Uploads & Better Performance

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A brand-new upload system significantly improves efficiency:

• 📤 Uploads can be up to ~20–30% faster
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• 📦 Payload size reduced by ~25% thanks to image transfer improvements
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• 🔋 Lower CPU, battery, and memory usage during uploads
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• 📷 Much better memory usage with tethered cameras
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• 🧠 Improved overall memory performance across the app

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These improvements should make long shooting sessions feel noticeably smoother.

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🖼️ v5: New Image Gallery & Filters

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The in-app gallery has been redesigned with better filtering and navigation:

• Image name search
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• Uploaded / Unuploaded status
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• Roll filtering
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• Event filtering

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Filters are easy to remove with a single tap, similar to the Dashboard experience.

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🔁 v5: Duplicate Photo Warning

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The Capture App can now warn you about duplicate images during a shoot:

• Works only within the current session
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• Does not upload or save duplicate data
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• Can be disabled from the Resources page if desired

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This works independently from the Dashboard’s Candy Culler duplicate detection, giving you duplicate awareness both during capture and afterward.

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🧰 v5: New Event Overview Info

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The event overview page now includes helpful connection details:

• 📡 Carrier name
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• 📶 Cellular generation (if available)
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• 📶 Current Wi-Fi network

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This can help troubleshoot upload issues while shooting events.

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🎨 v5: Photo Booth Background Packs

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Photo Booth now supports downloadable background packs:

• 🎄 Christmas
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• 🎃 Halloween
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• More to come!

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The default pack is now a downloadable set as well, which keeps the main app much smaller and makes OTA updates faster.

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🔧 v5: Additional Capture App Improvements

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🌍 International phone numbers supported in Positive ID (were already supported in Tap-A-Face)
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🧍 Full vertical images now fit on iPhone screens
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🔄 Update checks run automatically when refreshing events
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📧 Tap-a-Face email validation now matches Check-In pages
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🔄 Upload status updates immediately after each upload
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📲 Tablets can now use portrait orientation throughout the app

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✨ v5: Complete UI Refresh

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Version 5 introduces a polished new interface:

• Modern sheet-based UI
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• Improved dark mode styling
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• Larger login and event selection screens
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• Updated phone number input interface
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• New image details sheet
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• Cleaner image gallery layout

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Overall, the app feels faster, cleaner, and more modern.

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🧠 Candy Culler: Now 5× Faster

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Candy Culler processing has been dramatically upgraded.

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⚡ Up to 5× more images can now be processed at once, bringing it in line with Jersey Jotter throughput.

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This means faster detection for:

• Duplicates
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• Blurry photos
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• Exposure issues
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• Closed eyes
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• Other culling checks

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🍬 Candy Improvements

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Candy continues getting faster and smarter:

• ⚡ Faster Candy responses
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• 🔎 Faster Candy Navigation results
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• 🧠 Improved event search for newly created events
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• 🎛️ Refreshed Mini Candy UI

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Pro tip: Press CMD + A / CTRL + A to toggle Mini Candy.

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🧾 Dashboard Improvements

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Several useful refinements were made to the Dashboard:

• 📊 Fixed Faces Report chart showing empty data
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• 🧾 QR Code generator downloads now export at 1024px
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• 📑 Scan card PDFs now sort duplicate participants exactly like the Capture App
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• 🎨 Offer editor popups for adding products and packages are now wider with product category tabs
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• 📊 Event order list diamond-press counts now include quantities correctly
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• 🧭 QR Creator and Image Tester now appear in Sidebar Find

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🎨 New Retail Themes

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Candy's Note: We hope you enjoy the pupper pics!

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🍵 Matcha Theme – a clean green storefront (great for spring or St. Patrick’s Day)

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🍠 Ube Theme – a bold purple theme

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Bonus: Retail UI styling also received improvements for tabs, checkboxes, and order tracking.

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📳 Haptics for Mobile Retail & Check-In

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Mobile users will now feel subtle feedback interactions when using the site:

• Tap feedback
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• Success feedback (add to cart, order placed)
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• Error feedback

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This makes mobile ordering and check-in feel much more responsive, alive, and engaging!

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🤳 Selfie Check-In Improvements

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The Selfie Check-In site received improvements to the local face recognition model, making it more reliable and stable on more devices.

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💰 QuicPics Adjustment

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Good news for high-volume QuicPics users:

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Selfie Check-Ins and PhotoRoster reference images no longer count as billable images.

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That means QuicPics events that use those workflows will be slightly cheaper overall.

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📥 Easier Downloads on iPhone

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On iOS Chrome: Press-and-hold image downloads now open the iOS Share menu, making it much easier to save images. (iOS Safari already supported this behavior.)

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🌐 New QuicPics Landing Page

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The Quic.Pics site now has a proper landing page instead of only a login screen in case end customers stumble across it somehow.

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Hopefully this helps it seem more legit while still remaining relatively white-label for your photographers out there!

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That’s the week!

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Capture App v5 is a big upgrade, and combined with the faster Candy Culler and several Dashboard improvements, the entire workflow from capture → cull → sell just got smoother.

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See you next week,

Candy 🍬

Hey photo friends! 👋

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This week is packed with tools you’ll probably use right away: big upgrades to Candy Image Studio, a brand-new Participant Search across all events, and a fun but practical QR Creator.

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Let’s dive in.

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🎨 Candy Image Studio: More Control, More Power

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We’ve made some meaningful upgrades to Candy Image Studio:

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👁️ Choose whether to mark the original image invisible‍

• Previously, edits always hid the original. Now it’s your call.

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🗂️ Multiple edits can coexist‍

• Uploading multiple AI edits of the same image no longer overwrites previous ones.

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🧠 New safety agent‍

• Automatically checks for edits involving race/ethnicity/skin tone changes or nudity to keep things appropriate.

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🖼️ Generate 2K or 4K outputs‍

• 4K is recommended for images with text.

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⚡ Image Lightbox Integration‍

• Click “Candy Image Studio” directly from an image lightbox to preload it into the Studio.
• You can optionally mark the original invisible, and it keeps all participant associations intact for the new image (just like cutouts).

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🔎 New: Participant Search Across All Events

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You can now search participants across your entire account:

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• Search by name or contact info
• Access via Tools & More, Sidebar Search bar, or "/participants" directly in the URL
• Supports Candy navigation

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Huge time-saver when you can’t remember or don't know which event someone was in.

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🔳 New Tool: QR Creator

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Found under Tools & More, the new QR Creator lets you:

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• Paste in any link (event, check-in, retail, etc.)
• Customize shape and colors
• Generate something nicer than a plain black-and-white square
• Download the new, cuter QR code!

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Simple, but useful for signage, flyers, and booths.

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📱 Mobile Dashboard Improvements

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🔄 Swipe down to refresh any page (no app update needed, just refresh)

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↔️ Swipe left/right in image lightboxes to move between images (desktop users already have arrow keys)

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🍬 Overall improved Candy experience on mobile

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🖥️ Dashboard Improvements

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📂 PhotoRoster upload limit increased to 10,000 members

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🏷️ PhotoTag assignment via Edit Folder fixed (won’t remove all tags unless you choose “None”)

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👤 Create Participant button re-enabled (shows warning if event is older than 60 days; roster import still disabled for older events)

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⚡ Faster event list search for accounts with many events

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🖼️ Event cover photo now visually anchors the Event Details & Tags pages

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🧾 Fixed overlay import not working properly

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🔔 Fixed toast notifications appearing behind popups

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🌾 Candy Culler Duplicate detection improvement‍

• When using “Duplicates Only” in Candy Culler, duplicates now appear side-by-side for easier reviewing.

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🛍️ Retail Improvements

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📄 Fixed pagination buttons requiring page jump to function

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🏈 Improved Jersey Jotter search speed/performance

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🌀 LiveLoop Fixes

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🛠️ Fixed certain events stopping after running for awhile

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📢 Fixed not being able to upload advertisements

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💸 Shipping Update

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📦 5×7 Statuette shipping cost reduced thanks to a new shipping method for that product‍

• From $7.25 → $3.25 (about 55% lower)

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That’s the week!

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Bigger AI editing control, faster participant lookup, custom QR codes, and a lighter shipping cost on 5×7 Statuettes.

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Keep creating magic,

Candy 🍬

Hey photo friends! 👋

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Big week. We’ve rolled out a brand-new unified Sidebar, added new pano options, improved Dashboard speed, and dropped a Valentine’s-ready retail theme.

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Let’s break it down.

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🧭 New Unified Sidebar (Desktop + Mobile)

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The Dashboard navigation just got a major upgrade.

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🖥️📱 One unified sidebar across desktop and mobile

• No more different layouts depending on device. Navigation is now consistent everywhere.

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🔎 “Sidebar Find” (press F to search)‍

• The old command palette is now built into the Sidebar.
• Press F and start typing to jump anywhere.

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🍬 Candy Navigation Assistant‍

• If no results are found, Candy will try to take you where you meant to go!

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👀 Previously hidden items (like Extras) are now much easier to find.

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This is one of the biggest usability upgrades we’ve shipped in a while!

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🖼️ Panoramic Updates

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🖨️ New 24×8 Panoramic Print (non-group version)‍

• In addition to the group-only pano lineup, there’s now a non-group 24×8 option.

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🏷️ Existing panos renamed to “X Group Print”

• Makes it clearer which pano products are group-only.

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🧱 Extreme aspect ratio images (1:3 or 3:1)

• These are now limited to Panoramic Print products only.

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🧼 Fixed banner artwork incorrectly appearing on pano products in the store sheet.

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🛍️ Retail Improvements

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⚡ Much faster initial image grid rendering

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✨ Removed quick “No Images” flash during load

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🎨 Fixed “View Images” hero button text being too dark on some themes

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✂️ Crop size checker now correctly respects orientation for large-format products

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💕 New SweetHearts Theme (Valentine’s Ready)

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💖 SweetHearts retail theme released

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🎉 Includes custom heart confetti at checkout

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Just in time for Valentine’s Day sessions!

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🖥️ Dashboard Improvements

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🌾 Candy Culler upgrades

• Can now set an entire filter to visible or invisible (except duplicates)
• No longer also culls PhotoRoster reference images (whoops!)

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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Group Photo toggle added for Portraits Program

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📂 Increased row limits for roster and PhotoRoster uploads

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🛠️ Fixed overlay import not working properly

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📏 Improved DPI validation on banner artwork (matching full frame improvements)

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⚡ Faster requests across many areas including:

• Profile updates
• 2FA verification
• Invoice loading/downloading
• Retail settings updates
• Bank info updates
• Password reset emails

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📱 Fixed mobile dashboard scrolling/focus issues in popups

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🧾 Fixed create event occasionally not redirecting correctly

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📸 Fixed QuicPics creation confirmation spam edge case

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📬 Fixed unread inbox items appearing from before account creation

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🔐 Security Improvements

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🔒 Improved password reset security

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🔑 Strengthened 2FA flows and verification handling

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🤳 Selfie Check-In

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🖼️ Images under 100×100 are now blocked (lab requirement enforcement)

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🌀 LiveLoop

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🌫️Updated backdrop blur

• Looks better and is more performant, reducing crashes on WebKit browsers.

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That’s the week!

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A cleaner, unified Dashboard experience, smarter pano handling, better retail performance, and a Valentine’s-ready theme to boot.

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Keep creating magic,

Candy 🍬