Category: Blog
Pricing changes effective Aug. 1 and beyond + Our Latest Catalog
Candid Color Systems®, like many other businesses, has experienced an increase in costs (labor, shipping and raw materials) for many of the products and services we provide. We have worked hard to keep our prices extremely reasonable, especially for those operating in a View First™ model. Below is an overview of how our pricing has ...
Date: October 14, 2021To: CCS CustomersFrom: Jack Counts, Jr. Dear valued CCS customers, We are having an amazing fall. Sales volume is clearly much better than in 2020, as we expected. But the most pleasing thing is that volume is up considerably over a strong 2019. We hope that your fall is off to an ...
Now Available! NEW Attitude Product- Attitude Groups
This New product is similar to our Attitude Panos but more cost effective for smaller groups. Attitude Groups are available using all Pano artwork (backgrounds and floors) in smaller artwork sizes to fit 5x7, 8x10 and 10x14 prints and most of our memory mate designs. These groups will utilize the same cutouts and posing as ...
New Retail Website Coming Soon!
We are incredibility excited to get our new retail website (ecommerce platform) up and running! For those who were unable to attend our summer seminar, here are some of the latest developments in our rollout along with some of the results from our testing! Timeline: We have been doing extensive A/B testingThe CCS Sports market ...
What’s NEW
A quick rundown of new software features. Yearbook Allowed ImagesIf you take multiple poses and only specific images are allowed to be selected for the yearbook, you can mark images as “yearbook allowed”.https://knowledge.candid.com/knowledge/setting-yearbook-eligible-images-in-core Using Dynamic Cutout Images for Yearbook ExportsYou no longer have to render all images within a folder in order to export your ...
Software Updates Published 7/29/21
Yearbook reports moved from the headsize page, up a level to the yearbook summary page. Yearbook “Headsize Images” button is now disabled when some names are missing a default or yearbook image. Yearbook Export: Adds warning and count when some names do not have a default or yearbook image This will prevent yearbook exports from ...
Congratulations to Our CCS Award Winners!
Jack Counts Jr Customer of the Year Oklahoma School Pictures - Nathan Dunn & Bart Baker Dan Hays Contributor of the Year Holly Freedman of Ultimate Exposures Pivot Award Zap Photography Promoter of the Year Steve Sheldon of Sheldon School Pictures Best Use of Product Island Photography Sam Milling Customer Service Award Empire Photography Leap ...
NEW recommended TKO posing for baseball/softball
Based on cutout results of the ‘batting’ pose with TKO, we are not recommending this pose. The AI in the cutout software is randomly cutting part of the bat in the area above the head. Any variation of the batting pose can be affected. A recommended alternative is to have the bat resting on the ...
Dance Resource Center
It's All About Dance! We have created a whole new package for use to promote dance packages that align with the new Dance Default offer in CORE. We also have added extras to choose from if you wish to add additional items into your Dance Offer. We have Default Package Dance Banners (3' X 9'), ...
Did You Know?
Z-CROP IMAGES ARE NOT INCLUDED IN MY MULTI-IMAGE DOWNLOAD Z-Crops are actually just crop coordinates that are presented on the retail website. We do not actually crop your images and store them anywhere so when a customer orders the download, they will receive the full image instead of a cropped version. On prints, the z-crop ...