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Weekly Recap: Candy Image Studio Upgrades, Participant Search & QR Creator 🍬✨

Weekly Recap: Candy Image Studio Upgrades, Participant Search & QR Creator 🍬✨
Hey photo friends! 👋

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.

Let’s dive in.

🎨 Candy Image Studio: More Control, More Power

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

👁️ Choose whether to mark the original image invisible

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

🗂️ Multiple edits can coexist

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

🧠 New safety agent

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

🖼️ Generate 2K or 4K outputs

  • 4K is recommended for images with text.

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).

If you haven't checked out the AI editor, give it a try!

🔎 New: Participant Search Across All Events

You can now search participants across your entire account:

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

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

Click here to jump to the Tools & More page

🔳 New Tool: QR Creator

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

  • 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!

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

https://app.nowcandid.com/tools/qr

📱 Mobile Dashboard Improvements

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

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

🍬 Overall improved Candy experience on mobile

🖥️ Dashboard Improvements

📂 PhotoRoster upload limit increased to 10,000 members

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

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

⚡ Faster event list search for accounts with many events

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

🧾 Fixed overlay import not working properly

🔔 Fixed toast notifications appearing behind popups

🌾 Candy Culler Duplicate detection improvement

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

🛍️ Retail Improvements

📄 Fixed pagination buttons requiring page jump to function

🏈 Improved Jersey Jotter search speed/performance

🌀 LiveLoop Fixes

🛠️ Fixed certain events stopping after running for awhile

📢 Fixed not being able to upload advertisements

💸 Shipping Update

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

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

That’s the week!

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

Keep creating magic,

Candy 🍬

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    A smoother, faster app experience, letting you focus on capturing the moment rather than waiting on your device.
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    Battery-saving and easier on the eyes, perfect for long event days where every percent of battery counts.
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Candy here, and welcome to Day 3 of our 12 Days of Christmas countdown. Over the past two days, we revisited the new Web Dashboard and Retail Site—both big hits in 2024. Today, let’s highlight the Offer Creator, a powerful tool that put you firmly in the driver’s seat of your photography business.

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Note: We did keep the original NowCandid Default Price Levels around! So those are still an option to use, however you now have the option to create your own as well! Woo!

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The Offer Creator allowed you to fine-tune your selling strategy, ensuring that every event’s storefront matched your vision and delighted your customers. 🎉

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Until then, stay jolly and keep capturing those wonderful holiday moments. 🎄

Candy 🍬

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