Feature Updates

Weekly Recap: Photo Release Features, Merged Participant Clarity & More!

Candy

January 10, 2025

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Hello, my fabulous photographer friends!

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Candy here, ready to sprinkle some sparkle on your day with our latest Weekly Recap! We’ve been hard at work enhancing your NowCandid™ experience, and I’ve got all the juicy details right here.

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Let’s dive in!

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1. Photo Releases & The New Image Release Gallery

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Collecting Releases

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Before using the pictures you take of your subjects in things like portfolios, websites, flyers, samples, and more - the best practice is to get a record of consent from your subjects before using photos of them for such things!

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So... we've made some additions to NowCandid™ that will expedite this process for everyone involved!

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Enabled via Retail Site Settings: Head to your Account Profile, open the “Retail Site Settings,” and toggle whether to ask participants for a photo release when they complete Selfie Check-In™.
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Future Expansion: We plan to someday add this consent request to other locations in our Workflows, such as Scanner ID™ Check-Ins or after retail site checkout, so stay tuned!

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*Found under "Retail Site Settings" in your account profile*

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Image Release Gallery

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Once you’ve enabled Photo Releases, we’ve made viewing those fully released images a snap with the new Image Release Gallery!

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Fully Released Photos Only: This gallery shows images where every primary face in the picture has opted in for marketing use.
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Opt-Out Procedures: If someone changes their mind, NowCandid™ support can remove their release, and those images will disappear from the gallery.
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Easier Marketing & Inspiration: Enjoy a reliable stash of images for portfolios, websites, flyers, or sample products, all with peace of mind!

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This major addition simplifies the entire release process and keeps your marketing efforts on the right side of consent!

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Starting next week, this feature will be enabled by default for all NowCandid accounts! If you wish to disable it, that's up to you!

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*An example of some images with only released faces in the new Image Release Gallery*

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2. Improved Merged Participants Clarity

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We have also improved the photographer's experience and clarity when it comes to Merged Participants!

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Multiple Names, One Contact: When two or more participants share a phone number, they now visibly merge under one participant in the Participant Manager, with all names separated by commas.
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Reduced Confusion: Parents with multiple kids at an event won’t be an enigma anymore. You’ll see each kid’s name instead of a single ambiguous participant.
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Same Smooth Experience for Families: Consumers won’t notice much change, but you’ll breathe easier knowing your records more clearly show who’s who.

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No more wondering why two kids keep “replacing” each other in the backend—our improved merging UI has your back!

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*Example of multiple merged participants wrapped into one participant*

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3. Group Photo Filter in Manage Images

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Just Group Photos: We’ve added a toggle to the Manage Images page that shows only images flagged as “Group Photos.”
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Sports & GroupTags™: Perfect for organizing big team shots or verifying no single-person images slipped in by accident.
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Future Tweaks Coming: We’re cooking up more ways to polish Group Photo and GroupTags™ functionalities, so watch this space!

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If you handle big groups (like sports teams or large gatherings), this quick filter simplifies your event workflow.

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*New toggle button to switch between showing All Images and just Group Photos*

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4. All Images Gallery Pagination

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Page-by-Page Browsing: We replaced the endless scroll in the NowCandid™ retail site’s All Images Gallery with a paginated view—complete with arrows to move between pages.
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Jump to Page: Customers can type or select a page number if they already know where to look.
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Less Scrolling, More Finding: Makes returning to a specific photo (especially one not in a personal gallery) a breeze.

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This update ensures customers spend less time hunting and more time admiring—or purchasing—the images they love.

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5. New Events List Filter

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One last small addition to mention... we added a way to filter down your Events list!

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This should make it easier than ever to browse through your upcoming Events as you plan and prepare for them.

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That’s it for this week’s recap!

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We hope these changes help you manage your events more smoothly, give you extra confidence in your marketing, and offer your customers a cleaner, faster photo-browsing experience.

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As always, we love your feedback, so feel free to reach out with any questions or suggestions.

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Thank you for being an essential part of the NowCandid™ community. Keep capturing those unforgettable moments and creating smiles! 📸✨

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Cheers and sparkles,

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‍Candy 🍬

Branding

March 3, 2023

Backprinting: The newest feature to promote your brand

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With NowCandid, we stress how we try to make everything as white-label as possible.

This week, we've officially implemented a new feature that promotes your brand and drives sales in yet another way: Backprinting! Going forward, your business name, your contact info and the retail support email address will be on the back of all standard print products ordered (with the ability to include your business logo coming soon). Plus, the back of the print includes a unique QR code that when scanned, directs back to that person's individual gallery from that event (even if scanned 10 years from now) so they can buy more prints and increase your residual sales long term! With this change, all NowCandid users will now be delivering an even higher quality product, promoting their brands more effectively than ever, booking more business, and bringing in more residual sales as the years go on.

We hope you are as excited as we are!

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Note: your business name will replace NowCandid in the example image.

How One Night Led to $15,000 in Social Photography Sales

Success Stories

December 12, 2022

How One Night Led to $15,000 in Social Photography Sales

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Amy Lombardo, and her photography group recently sent several photographers to a military ball and at the time of writing this article, had over $15,000 in sales! To accomplish this, Amy used Now Candid’s Party Pics Now program & Tap A Face workflow with 4 photographers at the event. Several of these photographers worked photo stations with backdrops Amy provided (gray backgrounds with flags bordering the background) while other photographers roamed the party taking posed photos of the guests.

$15,000 is a lot of sales for one social event already, but it is especially impressive when you consider the fact that this was Amy’s first Now Candid event.

Amy Lombardo had this advice for those considering using Now Candid for their next event: “Keep it simple and trust the process. … When planning my first Now Candid event, I was advised to not overcomplicate things and to not get hung up on some of the more minor details. Following through with how the system is intended to work turned out very well for us!”

Thanks for trusting the process Amy! We wish you many successful events to come. To see Amy’s entire video testimonial, click the play button below.

Scanner Identification Now Available in Our Microsoft Store App

Feature Updates

December 1, 2022

Scanner Identification Now Available in Our Microsoft Store App

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We have a new update now available for the Now Candid Microsoft Store App! This update has several quality of life changes and logging improvements, but the main change is that Scanner Identification has finally been implemented!

Scanner Identification is a system that positively IDs images to your customers using, as the name implies, a scanner to scan a customer’s QR card.

When setting up your event you can generate these QR cards (more on that later) that your customers can scan with their phone to input their contact information. From there, the info & QR code are linked. Any time a QR code is scanned by the photographer that starts a session, and all subsequent photos taken will be matched to that contact info until another QR code is scanned.

At this time, Scanner Identification will only be usable with Sports Pics Now and Portraits Now. During event creation, when one of those two programs have been selected, you’ll choose either the “Tap A Face & Selfie Registration” option, or the “Scanner Identification” option. Once Scanner Identification has been selected and the event created, you’ll be able to input how many QR cards you need and a PDF will be generated with that many cards.

You’ll want to print out the PDF on perforated paper such as this 4 up card paper found on Amazon to more easily distribute cards without manually cutting all the paper.

The Scanner Identification workflow does require an LTE tablet! It’s required both as a device to connect your scanner to and as a way to upload your images live at the event so that guests can have links to buy their images moments after their session ends! Since facial recognition is not being used, galleries will be sent even more quickly and with 100% of the images taken during the session.

If you happen to have a very poor internet connection at your event, bringing the tablet and camera to a location with a strong internet connection after the event will send up all the images at that time! Paired to the data you scanned with it at the time of taking the image.

Let’s get in touch

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Weekly Recap: Photo Release Features, Merged Participant Clarity & More!

Hello, my fabulous photographer friends!

1. Photo Releases & The New Image Release Gallery

Collecting Releases

Image Release Gallery

2. Improved Merged Participants Clarity

3. Group Photo Filter in Manage Images

4. All Images Gallery Pagination

5. New Events List Filter

That’s it for this week’s recap!

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Backprinting: The newest feature to promote your brand

How One Night Led to $15,000 in Social Photography Sales

Scanner Identification Now Available in Our Microsoft Store App

Let’s get in touch

How to customize formatting for each rich text

How to customize formatting for each rich text

How to customize formatting for each rich text

How to customize formatting for each rich text

How to customize formatting for each rich text

How to customize formatting for each rich text