Hey photo friends! 👋

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Candy here with a weekly recap—there’s a very exciting Capture App addition this week: Action Mode for Sports events! We’ve also got a few Dashboard and Check-In fixes to keep things moving smoothly.

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Let’s take a look.

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📱 Capture App 5.8: New Action Mode

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Capture App 5.8 introduces a brand-new Action Mode shooting mode for Sports events.

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🏷️ Automatically tag photos with PhotoTags while shooting‍

• Action Mode lets you select a PhotoTag and automatically apply it to the photos you take, using a familiar PhotoTag selection flow similar to managing PhotoTags for group images.

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🏈 Built for sports workflows‍

• Action Mode appears for Sports events:
  • On Positive ID events, it shows up all the time
  • On Face Matching events, it shows up when the Event has PhotoTags

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📸 Shoot freely in Positive ID‍

• This also allows you to shoot freely in Positive ID events without first adding a participant—something that wasn’t previously possible.

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👥 Not the same as Group Photos‍

• Action Mode applies PhotoTags while shooting, but it does not mark images as group images.

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🤖 Android RAW+JPEG reconnect improvement‍

• Improved behavior on Android when shooting in RAW+JPEG while reconnecting the camera multiple times.

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Why it’s helpful:

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Action photographers can now organize images into PhotoTags while they shoot, making it much easier for subjects accessing the gallery live at the Event to browse the All Images Gallery to filter down to the right team, game, division, or group on the retail site when you are live-uploading your action shots.

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This is especially useful when you’re promoting an All Images Gallery QR code at an event and sending subjects directly to retail. Combined with the new sign-in requirement for Favorites, subjects can save favorite images and access them later from any device—setting the stage for even more action-event workflow improvements in the future.

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You can even utilize the new Auto Edit feature to potentially review and edit your action photos before they go live to the gallery with AI! Try out the beta "Improve Action Shot" node in Candy Image Studio on some test photos to see how it works for you.

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🛍️ Retail Updates

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📦 Packages now prefill with the selected image‍

• When a shopper starts a package from an image, eligible package items will now auto-fill with that image. Customers can still change any product, but this makes ordering larger packages much faster.‍
• Note: Group images won’t prefill non-group products, non-group images won’t prefill group products, downloads beyond the first won't prefill, and products requiring captions or multiple images won’t be prefilled.

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🧩 Package editor UI refreshed‍

• Configured products now show a clearer Change Image button, and product names + image controls are grouped together to reduce confusion.

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🛒 Packages now have a landing screen‍

• Packages now open with an overview of what’s included before the shopper continues into the editor.

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⭐ Sign-in required for Favorites‍

• Shoppers now sign in before adding Favorites, which lets their Favorites sync across devices when they use the same account.

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🖼️ Dynamic Gallery additions fixed‍

• User-added Dynamic Gallery images now persist correctly after refresh and appear properly in Dynamic Gallery purchases.

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🛡️ GalleryGuard improvements‍

• Additional GalleryGuard improvements were made to help protect retail images.

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😊 Face Finder visibility fixes‍

• The Show Face Match Groups Offer setting now hides the Face Finder filter as expected, including when Zoom Cropping is enabled.

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🖥️ Dashboard Improvements

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⚡ PhotoRoster pages are faster‍

• All PhotoRoster pages should feel a little quicker.

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🚫 Clearer upload error for invalid XMP metadata‍

• The Upload Images page now shows “Invalid Metadata (XMP)” for a rare export issue that can happen with some Adobe workflows.

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🎨 Image Converter Display P3 fix‍

• The Image Converter Tool now correctly converts Display P3 images to sRGB when Convert to sRGB is enabled.

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🤳 Check-In Website Fix

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🏷️ Team/group selection false error fixed‍

• Fixed an issue where selecting a team or group could incorrectly show an error saying the selfie failed to upload.

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That’s the update for this week!

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Action Mode is the big highlight—especially for sports photographers who want instant PhotoTag organization while shooting.

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Keep creating magic,

Candy 🍬