Weekly Recap: Custom Text for Virtual Groups, Better Hair Cutouts & Artwork Previews ✍️📸
Hey photo friends! 👋
Candy here with a much-requested addition to Virtual Group Builder: custom text! We’ve also added bulk Virtual Group uploads, improved hair cutouts, and made it easier to preview and revise your Event artwork.
Let’s jump in!
🧑🤝🧑 Virtual Group Builder: Add Your Own Text!
You’ve been asking for this one! 😄 Virtual Group Builder now lets you add Custom Text directly to your design.
✍️ Write and position your text — Add a team name, class year, Event title, or another message, then adjust its position and size.
🎨 Customize the appearance — Choose your text color and font, with the option to upload your own font.
🌑 Add a drop shadow — Turn on a shadow when your text needs a little more separation from the background.
These controls give you more flexibility to finish a design right inside the Builder, without putting every text element into a foreground image first.
📤 Upload All Your Virtual Groups at Once
There’s also a new Upload button at the top of the Virtual Group List page.
Use it to bulk upload all your Virtual Groups for an Event, with the option to choose a PhotoTag for each one, just like when uploading them individually. Handy when you’ve finished a whole league’s worth of team photos!
✂️ Better Hair Cutouts & Color Cleanup
Background Removal received another round of improvements, with a particular focus on hair:
💇 Significantly improved hair cutouts and despilling — Better handling of hair detail and removal of unwanted background color around the hair.
🖼️ Hair cutoff fixes — Resolved edge cases where visible cutoff lines could appear in hair.
Hair can make a big difference in how natural a cutout looks, so this is an area we’re continuing to refine.
🎨 Preview and Revise Event Artwork More Easily
The Candy Image Studio Overlay Editors now give you more context when editing existing Event artwork.
🖼️ See sample images before generating — Preview the existing artwork on sample images before starting your edit.
↔️ Compare the result with a before-and-after slider — Review what changed once the revised artwork is ready.
🎯 More reliable revisions — Improvements help edits follow your requested changes more consistently.
This should make it easier to judge an artwork revision in context, rather than looking at the artwork alone.
👤 New Option: Restart Face Matching
The Event’s Face Matching page now includes a Restart Face Matching button.
This is a significant action, so please review what it does before using it:
💰 Costs 2¢ per image, including reference images from Selfie Check-In and PhotoRosters.
🔄 Resets all Face Matching data and starts matching again.
📅 Changes your Event dates — The start date becomes the current date, and the end date becomes five days later.
⚠️ Use this carefully. Make sure you have the appropriate consent from your subjects and meet the biometric information and consent requirements that apply in your region before restarting Face Matching.
📣 Marketing Emails & RCS Branding
🆓 Clear Image Previews for FreePics
FreePics marketing emails no longer blur image previews. Since those downloads are free, that extra protection isn’t needed!
We also fixed an Outlook styling issue so marketing emails display more consistently.
💬 Updated QuicPics Logo in RCS Messages
Our RCS messaging logo has been updated to the new QuicPics branding. The change can take about a week to reach carriers and devices, so some customers may notice it next week.
And a reminder:
- We still plan to explore sending messages with your business name and logo as RCS capabilities expand.
- This of course depends on how the technology develops in ways outside our control, but we want you to know that promoting your brand remains our goal.
- For now, with unknown-sender and spam folders affecting which messages customers notice, we believe a recognizable QuicPics name and logo helps your photo messages stand out compared to unknown numbers.
🖥️ Dashboard Fixes & Other Updates
📥 Folder downloads keep going — If one image fails to download, Download Folder now continues with the remaining images instead of stopping the entire download.
👥 Additional Contact labels stay intact — Fixed roster-to-Event imports dropping the Additional Contact flag.
📋 Phone-number cleanup during uploads — Roster and PhotoRoster uploaders now automatically remove stray letters from phone-number entries.
☀️ More Light Theme improvements — We’ve made another round of interface refinements for photographers using the Dashboard’s new Light Theme.
🔎 Find Me has a refreshed look — The Find Me Portal now has updated QuicPics branding.
That’s the week! We’re especially excited to see what you create with Custom Text—and bulk uploading should save a few clicks when those Virtual Groups are ready to go.
Keep creating magic,
Candy 🍬
