Weekly Recap: More PhotoTag Power + Capture App Upgrades 🏷️📱
By
Candy
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August 15, 2025
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Hey there, photo friends!
We’ve got more PhotoTag goodness this week, along with some handy Capture App improvements and small workflow wins. Here’s what’s new:
🏷️More Ways to Use PhotoTags in the Dashboard
• Assign PhotoTags to Participants right from the Participant Details page
• See PhotoTag images on the Participant Details page for quick reference
• Filter Participants by PhotoTag from the Participant List page
• PhotoTags now appear on Scan Cards—assigned tags will print right under the participant’s name
• Participant galleries on retail now include group photos from their assigned PhotoTags
📋Smoother Roster & Participant Management
• Contacts created via scan cards, rosters, Tap-A-Face, or generic check-in are now fully editable like normal participants—no more “blank” contacts
• Roster uploads no longer require you to manually remove parentheses in your files (one less cleanup step!)
📱Capture App 4.20.2 Highlights
• Use cellular while connected to CamFi or Canon Wi-Fi (great for maintaining uploads while tethered)
• Force cellular use via the Resources page if needed
• App badge now shows the number of unuploaded images
• Sort and filter by PhotoTag in Name Lookup to speed up team or group sessions
• New UI improvements, including:
• Fullscreen card scan popup on iPhone
• New “Choose Participant” popup design
• Native iOS-style dropdowns and toggle switches for a cleaner, faster feel
🖼️Small Retail Site Improvements
• When cropping an image with a background selected, the cropper now shows the background so you can see exactly how it will look
• Jersey Jotter filter combos are now inclusive—meaning “Black + 0” will only show black jerseys with the number 0, not all black jerseys or all 0 jerseys
That’s it for this week!
Lots of small changes adding up to smoother workflows and better gallery organization. 🏆
High school homecoming weekend is packed with photo-worthy moments
From the parade and pep rally to the big game, homecoming court, and the dance. For photographers, it’s a whirlwind. But with NowCandid™, even a small team can cover it all efficiently and profitably.
Below is a quick look at each event, the opportunities it presents, and the NowCandid tools that help you make the most of them.
🎉 Homecoming Parade – Kicking Off the Celebration
• Selfie Check-In™: Let parade participants register with a quick selfie before kickoff. Face Matching will tag them automatically later.
• Roam & Shoot: Focus on faces & emotional moments, not journalistic shots. The system will do the rest!
• PartyPics™: Upload images in real-time for attendees, parents and students to view instantly. 💡 Every identified face is a potential sale. Automation ensures you don’t miss anyone.
📣 Pep Rally – Spirit & Smiles
• Selfie Check-In™: Continue building your attendee database for the weekend.
• LiveLoop™: Display photos on the big screen in real-time to build excitement. 💡 More personalized photos = more likely purchases.
🏈 Football Game – Under the Lights
• Face Matching™: Match images to fans, players, and band members automatically.
• JerseyJotter™: You can even let fans filter photos by jersey number for easy finds.
• Live-Upload: Deliver shots before halftime!
• LiveLoop™: Show photos on the big screen during breaks for instant crowd buzz. 💡 Thousands of game photos become searchable and personal, boosting sales.
👑 Homecoming Court – Crowning Moments
• Prepare: Add nominees to Face Matching™ ahead of time with Selfie Check-In™!
• Live-Upload: Provide those crowning shots well before the night’s over. 💡Court images have built-in demand, your social pics will encourage bigger package sales!
💃 The Dance – A Night to Remember
• Selfie Check-In™ at the Door: The best time to get Check-Ins!
Even if someone checks-in again, that's no problem! Get everyone to do it as they funnel into the dance.
• Digital Backgrounds: Offer multiple themed or elegant options for portraits, our real-time background removal makes it easy.
• Photo Booth + LiveLoop™: Between NowCandid's Photo Booth Mode & LiveLoop™, you have multiple upsell options that create more photos and more positive energy! 💡 Multiple background choices can lead to one image being purchased multiple times!
🚀 Why It Works
NowCandid™ turns homecoming into a personalized, real-time, high-volume photography experience—without extra staff.
• Efficiency: Automation handles matching, sorting, and delivery.
• Delight: Participants see their photos fast and without searching.
• Profitability: More sellable images, quicker turnaround, and premium offerings = better margins.
A typical homecoming weekend is jam-packed with memories in the making.
For a photographer, it used to mean juggling notebooks of names, printing hundreds of proofs, or spending days in post-event labor. Now, with tools from NowCandid™, a single photographer (even operating solo) can confidently cover the parade, pep rally, game, court, and dance – and do it in a way that’s both fun for students and profitable for the business.
By using features such as Selfie Check-In™ and Face Matching™ to ensure everyone’s identified, QuicPics™ and LiveLoop™ to deliver excitement in real time, and Photo Booth and AI-powered backgrounds to offer creative products, you transform the event photography workflow from chaotic and labor-intensive to smooth, high-tech, and engaging.
In short, NowCandid’s software and workflows allow you to capture the full spirit of homecoming
Every candid laugh, every triumphant cheer, every dance floor twirl – and get those images into the hands of the people who will cherish them, almost as fast as the memories are made.
This means happier clients, more sales, and a homecoming weekend where the photographer can enjoy the process as much as everyone else enjoys the photos.
Here’s to using technology to work smarter, wow your customers, and make homecoming (and many more events to come) a win-win for everyone involved!
This week’s updates are small but mighty—because behind the scenes we’re cooking up some bigger projects that we can’t wait to share with you soon.
For now, here’s what’s fresh in your NowCandid™ Dashboard:
👆 Tap-A-Face… from the Web Dashboard!
You’ve always loved Tap-A-Face in the field—now you can do it right from your Dashboard.
From any image’s Image Details Page, head to the Participants tab and click the new Add via Tap-A-Face button. From there:
Click a spot on the image where a face is
Enter the contact info for the person
This will instantly create a new Participant in your Event, kick off Face Matching™, and start marketing their gallery right away. 📸💌
Manage Images -> Details, Logs, and More-> Participants -> Add via Tap-A-Face
📇 Roster Contacts, Upgraded
Contacts you add through Rosters are now much easier to work with! They’ll behave just like your regular Contacts & Participants—meaning:
They’re fully editable
They can be assigned multiple images without the previous first-image requirement
No more clunky workarounds—just smoother, faster contact management. 🙌
This change will also improve adding Contacts via the "Create Participant" button, as well as Contacts who add themselves to the Event via a Positive ID Event's Simple Check-In.
These kinds of Contacts will just show a silhouette for now, which we may adjust down the line!
That’s it for this week!
Stay tuned—because some very cool things are coming your way soon. 👀✨
Candy here with some sweet new updates from your NowCandid™ Dashboard.
We've got a powerful new coaching tool, a fun new product to sell, and a bunch of workflow-boosting fixes to round it out.
Let’s dive in! ✨
🆕 New Feature: PhotoCoach
Introducing PhotoCoach—your new secret weapon for improving the quality of your photographers’ photos over time! 🧠📷
With PhotoCoach, you can:
• Review images from your Events and flag them with issues like "Acceptable," “Duplicate,” “Exposure Issue,” “Cropping Issue” and more (and make your own categories too!)
• Track photographer photo quality over time
• Send automatic feedback reports to your photographers with a breakdown of image counts & issue counts
It’s perfect for helping your team take more sellable images—leading to happier clients and stronger sales!
Find it now under Tools & More on your Dashboard and start coaching like a pro. 💪
Note: PhotoCoach is not new for CORE™ users (CORE™ is our sister-software at Candid Color Systems™), but it's new to NowCandid™! And it's had some feature improvements recently so it is now web-based! Woo!
It takes a little getting used to, but once you are, it's super easy and super fun!
🧩 NEW: 8×10 Acrylic-Backed Puzzle
Puzzle fans, rejoice! 🎉 You can now sell a 56-piece acrylic-backed 8×10 puzzle, complete with cute live-rendered previews on the retail site.
Why customers will love it:
• Unique gift or keepsake
• Durable acrylic & display-worthy
Even the little detahced pieces in the top right live-render, yay! - Theme: Liquorice
🔗 URL Filtering Just Got Smarter
Now when shoppers apply filters on the retail site, those filters update the URL automatically—making filtered views shareable with friends & family!
Not much more to say about this one, just a cool touch! :)
🛠️ Misc Tweaks & Fixes
A roundup of small but mighty changes:
📥 Dynamic Personal Gallery Downloads can now be purchased by shoppers via Favorites!
○ A great addition for action sports—gives customers a “buy all” option that scales with the number of images selected, even when shopping from an All Gallery.
🧑🤝🧑 Group-by-Face filter popup now shows only unique faces
○ Applies to new Events only—re-run Group-by-Face on past Events if needed!
🗂 BGR Folders are editable again via the “Edit Folder” option
🖼 Retail site now scrolls past the cover photo if a filter is selected from the initial popup
○ A smoother experience when arriving to an All Images gallery
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