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).

🔎 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.

🔳 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.

📱 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 🍬