Weekly Recap: Candy Culler Upgrades & Miscellaneous Tweaks 🍬✨
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Hey photo friends! 👋
This week was all about making renders look right, downloads behave better, and Dashboard tools feel faster (with a few Capture App and LiveLoop™ polish wins sprinkled in).
Here’s what’s new:
🛍️ Retail Site
🌀 2D render support for Premium Print & Premium Plaque
- These now use 2D renders in checkout for better performance, while keeping the rich preview experience where it matters.
🆓 Free download product ordering improved (Quic-Events)
- Free Download now always appears first
- Free Gallery Download will always appear second (if available)
📝 Clearer Free Gallery Download description
- It now correctly says full-resolution (when it’s not the “Medium Res Gallery Download”).
📦 Web Receipt Download Page
🖼️ Preview fit fixed
- Images now fit completely in the preview, so artwork (like bottom/banner elements) won’t look “missing” behind buttons.
🔄 Smarter auto-refresh while processing
- If the lab is still preparing downloads, the page will automatically refresh status updates in the background so customers don’t have to babysit it.
🖥️ Dashboard
📄 Participant download spreadsheet improvements
- Fixed the images column always showing “…” at the end
- “Ref Image” column renamed to RefImageName (matches PhotoRoster sheets)
- Address columns are included when applicable (only if at least one participant has a check-in address)
🗂️ Cleaner downloaded filenames
- Downloaded images no longer get Full_Res_ or Full_Res_W_Banner appended to the filename.
🧾 PhotoRoster Data Upload cleanup
- Folder names are now removed from RefImageName automatically (e.g.,
1/DSC_4143→DSC_4143).
⚡ Faster reports
- Many reports (including the overview report) should load quicker.
🍬 Candy Culler (Our New AI Culling Tool)
🍬 Candy Culler added to Command Palette
- You can now launch it from CTRL+K / CMD+K while on an Event Details page.
📊 Candy Culler progress bar + auto-updating status
- New X/Y processed progress display, with automatic refresh until everything is done.
🧠 Candy Culler quality fixes & polish
- BGR folders won’t be culled before a PNG actually exists
- Images sort by image name (A→Z)
- Improved mobile UI
🌀 LiveLoop™
🖼️ Better full-frame and banner rendering (pixel-perfect)
🧵 Banner/full-frame art now uses full resolution (no longer medium)
🍏 Background blur re-enabled on Apple devices
📱 Capture App iOS 4.22.4 (OTA Jan 12)
✨ More native-feeling navigation transitions
📞 Phone field keypad behavior fixed (no unexpected iOS keypad when manually tapping)
🧷 Gallery strip stays where you were
- When marking images visible/hidden or group/not group, the strip no longer jumps back to the start.
🧼 Misc Fixes & Cleanup
🧩 Render Preview page fixes (quic.pics/render)
- Several products that weren’t downloading renders correctly should now behave as expected.
🧲 Cutout Magnets + Statuettes now supported on the preview page
- Render previews/downloads are enabled for these products (note: they’ll only look correct if the selected image is a cutout).
🖨️ Premium Print & Premium Plaque render downloads enabled
- You can now download renders for 8×10 Premium Print and Premium Plaque from the preview page too.
🔤 Input cleanup for non-English-standard characters
- Certain fancy/unsupported characters are auto-converted to standard English characters to prevent weird issues in names, sign-in fields, business info, etc.
That’s the week!
Lots of “little” changes that add up to cleaner previews, clearer downloads, and faster tools where you use them most.
Keep creating magic,
Candy 🍬
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