We are excited to share new products coming out soon for Spring! There are three new Styles: Glimmer, High Voltage and Uniform. These styles can be customized with color, name and year. As an economic alternative to Virtual Groups we ...
First off – We want to thank you for your business. We truly appreciate our customers. We consider you our friends and partners and we work to help you become more profitable. Only when you are successful – are we ...
Insurance verification forms must be sent in each year! Please make sure you have provided a current copy of your insurance (per your franchise agreement) showing TSS Photography as an additional insured. You can send copies to CCS attention Carol ...
January 19, 8:30am-4pm Join us for an in-person training and education opportunity! We will cover NEW software features and products. Plus, get hands-on training for any of your spring needs. Learn More and Register!
First off – We want to thank you for your business. We truly appreciate our customers. We consider you our friends and partners and we work to help you become more profitable. Only when you are successful – are we successful. Wow – 2021 has been exciting. Our collective volume was down for the first ...
Insurance verification forms must be sent in each year! Please make sure you have provided a current copy of your insurance (per your franchise agreement) showing TSS Photography as an additional insured. You can send copies to CCS attention Carol Sneed OR email it to carols@candid.com.Once you have added TSS Photography as the additional insured ...
When ordering Virtual Group Artwork you will no longer have individual options for 8x10, 8x10 with padding, 10x14 or 16x20. Those are now all one product and will work for all aspect ratios… 5x7, 10x14, 8x10 and 16x20. We’ve also removed the number recommendations.
January 19, 8:30am-4pm Join us for an in-person training and education opportunity! We will cover NEW software features and products. Plus, get hands-on training for any of your spring needs. Learn More and Register!
In anticipation of moving to the NEW and enhanced ecommerce site, we would like for you to consider your watermarks. Thumbnail images on the new site are larger and should be protected. You can add a scrolling watermark in additional to your standard watermark if you choose. This can be done on the event level ...
All captions are now prompted for on mobile sites (current and new ecommerce) , unless the photographer has entered the caption and set that caption to “not allow” changes. Previously, captions that were not required, did not always show.
We wanted to make you aware of a change to credit card statements for your online (retail website) buyers. Their statements will now show YOUR business name. In some cases we had to shorten some business names (i.e. change photography to photo) to work within the character limits of providers. We hope that you will ...
The USPS has announced their new service standard effective October 1st for First Class Mail. This impacts “letters” & “flats” (traditional picture order envelopes and upgraded envelopes). They are allowing 1 – 2 additional days for delivery in some areas. Here is a Fact Sheet from the USPS. This states that the impact will primarily be for ...
Now available are tiered pricing offers for Underclass/Elementary School along with a tiered school campaign. Offers: CCS - (TSS Offer) SCHOOL - Elementary/Preschool FallCCS - (TSS Offer) SCHOOL - Elementary/Preschool Fall with Homework Line Email Campaign: SCHOOL Tiered Pricing COMING SOON! Middle School & High School Tiered Pricing Offers!
Candid Color Systems®, like many other businesses, has experienced an increase in costs 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 will change on or after August ...
Date: October 13, 2021 To: TSS Update From: Jack Counts, Jr. Dear valued TSS Franchisees, 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. Many of our customers have booked extra ...
This New product is similar to our Impact/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 ...
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 ...
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 yearbook images. You can now setup your ...
Congratulations to this year's President's Club Members. Rachel ShermanKellie HealyMaggie DepoorterSteve SindellLindsay VerdunRon ThornberryJason Jackson & Michael RauenWayne Bowring Click here to learn how you too can qualify to become a member!
If you recall, in 2019 we announced that our P&D – based awards would now be based on calculations for a “school year” of July 1 – June 30th for purposes of determining President’s Club winners, Volume Rebate Levels and other awards. This allows us to honor award winners more quickly after their achievements ….at ...
We now have a NEW Senior page you can add to your website. If you are in the Senior Portrait market or looking to get into this market make sure to request to have this page added to your site. Contact me at sarah.burns@candid.com to have the page added.
Registration now shows 2 email and 2 cell entries on the main page, unless the photographer checks “Hide the “Add another contact” button, then it will only show 1 email and 1 cell. The second entries are labeled Family or Friend Email Address and Family or Friend Cell Phone Number. You can override the prompt ...
The Chapin’s out of Michigan and New York (Norm, Karen, Catherine, Matt and Anthony) came onboard with TSS over a year ago. Just as they were gaining momentum to book new business and start photographing organizations, the pandemic hit. Now that things are starting to return to normal, they picked up a soccer league in ...
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 ...
We have recently added EVEN MORE sample events using our new default offers for a variety of markets and events. See the list below with links to the sample events. TSS-Multi Sport-Style 6SchoolGrad
There are 2 new “CCS Recommended Sports Offers” available for import into your account. These new offers utilized tiered pricing. That means your buyer gets the best price if they order within 7 days of the event date. On day 8 prices increase approximately 10%. Your buyer will then be offered the second tier prices ...
We are excited to announce TWO new team members who have joined Candid Color Systems. Please join us in welcoming Tim and Courtney Lindabury! And YES! You are seeing that correctly…….they are a husband and wife team with years of photo industry experience. Here is a bit about our new dynamic duo! Both Tim and ...
We have our fun NEW Light Up Badges in stock now! Aside from selling these as great new products with photos in them, we also wanted to offer a BULK BLANK SET OF 10 BADGES (NO PHOTOS INCLUDED) to our customers to use for STAFF BADGES as requested, or if you want to take to ...
We have a new SPIRIT ITEMS flyer/email that you can use to market to your organizations/schools/booster clubs about our fun NEW LIGHT BADGES, along with a variety of great fundraising items. This is also a great tool to get in the door to book their portraits and groups. Tout these fun new items and some great ways ...
Push Grad Gifts this grad season with these flyer/emails! These can be used to sell grad gifts to your SCHOOLS, or to your END CUSTOMER. This flyers features popular gifts to make their day even more special! We have uploaded the PSD/JPG/Web files HERE, in case you want to customize them with your contact info, ...
We have a great new way to promote SENIOR and VARSITY banners to your schools, teams and leagues!! This great new flyer shows how fun celebrating your team can be! We have uploaded several flyer/emails to MOM by downloading HERE. These are also uploaded into the CORE as: Campaign: TSSLeadGen_NOTRETAIL Template: LeadGen.21.SeniorBannerLeadGen.21.VarsityBanner Make this a BANNER ...
Find the latest Party Pics Now equipment list - including where you can purchase the mobile tablet case with strap. And the latest Virtual Group Photography Guide here.
We've had a lot of requests for Virtual Group Sample Pictures and we are making our a large library available to you HERE on M.O.M.! Choose from 35+ samples of virtual groups ranging from Bowling, Cheer, Football, Greek, Lacrosse and many more! We have a wide variety available for you to use NOW! We've also created an ...
We are incorporating a new branding look to our internal/external communications for TSS, and we wanted to make that branding look also available for you to also use with your presentations and materials. We have made a "PIXEL" background for dropping into your marketing, along with a word document and powerpoint presentation to start using ...
Schools still need a way for virtual students (full time or part time) to get their school IDs and/or have yearbook photos included for them too. You may not be able to take their picture, but you can still have them upload their own photo for school IDs/yearbook thanks to CCS's software system. You also have the ...
We have created several new flyers/emails for you to use in showing potential customers HOW the PhotoMatchTM process works. We have options for SPORTS, GRADS and SCHOOLS. Choose from the DATA version and the QR CODE Registration version. The PSDs, JPGs and Web JPGS are all HERE for downloading for your use: PhotoMatch Data & QR Code ...
Find resources to help you market your business for Church Directories Church Directory Marketing Materials Church Directory Retail EmailsChurch Directory Program FlyerChurch Directory Booking FlyerChurch Directory Advertising EmailChurch Directory 11x17 PostersChurch Directory 5x7 Bulletin Flyers Church Directory Presentations TSS Church Program Information/Ideas/Procedures
We want to share an idea with you which could make a real positive impact on your spring cash flow. Does shooting hundreds of subjects and averaging $35 per subject photographed interest you? It is likely something that you have not ever done before – but very worthwhile. It is a way that you can ...
We have been asked for a quick presentation to use for schools to book graduations. We created a short 6-slide Powerpoint presentation you can send to schools -- it matches our "GRAD BROCHURES" that are available on the TSS marketing materials website at tssphotography.com/mm (copy & paste link in your browser). You will need to customize this ...
CORE CORE will use the default image for the yearbook pose unless overwritten on retail or pictureadmin. If no default image has been checked, CORE will automatically use the last image in the last view category as the default and yearbook pose, unless a different view in alignment categories has been selected to use for ...
Claudine Garver has had a lot of calls lately asking if she does portrait sessions. She is being told that the other photographers packages are too high, starting around $400! Claudine wanted to try to pick up some more of the customers feeling the same way about other photographers. We created these two emails for ...
Are you looking at the Dance/Drill Team competitions in your area? There are tons! Between shooting posed shots, competition live shots, and PR shots, competitions and dance studios can add huge dollars to your bottom line! We have many customers shooting them now and promoting PRE-REGISTERING for event photos! These 12X18 posters were designed to ...
You can quickly confirm that all names have a default image assigned from the headsize images page. If no default is assigned you can quickly link to images to assign a default image. While on the headsize images page, click the "view" button to the left of "Names without a default image". You will see ...
Many photographers are making money on Business Portraits, and we want you to add that to your mix! We have created several pieces to help you market to local businesses in your area including business offices, realtors, and much more! Just think if you get into a Realtor's office to take their professional business portraits, ...
Beginning Tuesday, October 27th, you no longer have to pre-render chroma-key/TKO images in order to use them for yearbook images. You can now allow a dynamic cutout image to be selected as the yearbook pose. This also means you can export your yearbook files without rendering. You’ll enter the background you’d like the exports to ...
We have just added an additional slide to our existing Overall Blue School Presentation on MOM promoting the School Admin Portal -- a great advantage you can use to sell a school especially at this time. Please pull and add this slide for your existing presentations or just download if you haven't checked out this ...
Best-practices when photographing for TKO. Backgrounds Recommended - Unlit White Westcott Fleece - 5x10 or 9x20Avoid Black Backgrounds - Some of the background will not cutout Lighting Light the subject & not the background so the white turns to a light gray Props Handheld props such as basketballs, soccer balls, etc. will typically cutout correctlyProps ...
This tablet hood will help shield your tablet when shooting outside and make it a bit easier to see the screen. Order the 8.6” size for the Go tablet. Order 3 in 8.6 size. Find it here on amazon. Because the hood sticks out from the tablet, it will need to be positioned more to the side ...
TKO Knockout/Cutout services have a ceiling on the size of the images that can be processed in both image size and file size. Image Size should be 24 MP or below. Measured in Megapixels (MP), this is the resolution or the pixel dimensions of your images. The image size is set in your camera with ...
Generate Additional Revenue! Put a smile on your customers face with the new Face Mask offer. If you'd like to offer masks to your customers we now have a mask only offer you can send your customer to so they can upload their photo and order custom smile and photo masks. We've made it super ...
Youth sizes have been added for all mask designs.See the new product IDs below AND the product name for the other (adult) size has been updated. The pricing is the same as the adult size. We suggest the youth size for kids between the ages of 5 - 12 years old. PMask: Personality Mask - ...
We have created a DRIVE THRU PICTURE DAY logo for your use in your marketing to schools via emails, print materials and more! The logos can be downloaded HERE as a PSD, and PNG files in both black and white options.
As we watch the school year start the next few weeks, we know we will have a mix of in person and digital learning schooling methods provided across the country. We want to be able to cater to both kinds of schooling by offering Picture Day alternatives to both groups. Thanks to Jennifer Lambertz, we ...
Find links to product flyers, emails and more discussed during the Summer Seminar. Smile Face Masks with PricingPersonality Face Masks with PricingGrad Spirit Stick Guide Flyer for 2021Themed Sports Spirit Stick Guide Flyer for 2021New Products 2021 FrontNew Products 2021 BackNew Product Flyer HyperNew Product Flyer RockNew Product & Email Campaigns Presentation Product renders for the ...
An updated version of the Background Screening Authorization and Consent form plue directions on how to Order Certified Safe Badges are now available on MOM. Download the Background Screening form here. And find the information on Certified Safe Badges here.
We now have three new emails/flyers that you can now use to market SMILE masks to specific target markets including: Teachers, Nurses/Dr/Healthcare Professionals and Bartenders. The flyers focus on that profession showing how great the masks are for their specific trade. Emails have been uploaded into CORE. Use them today! Campaign: TSS Mask Campaign CON.2020.PROD.BartenderSmileMaskAd ...
Treering now offers additional discount options to your schools – 10%, 15% & 20%. The lower the discount the school receives, the higher commission you’ll receive (that’s math I can get behind)! Generic flyers can be found below. Personalized flyers (franchisee name/contact info/discount code) will be prepared/shared by James Calabrese (james.calabrese@candid.com), after request. TSS Photography ...
We've added another Virtual Group flyer to the mix for your upcoming Bid Days! One that adds more emphasis on the Green Screen, and how the image is actually cut out and put into the Virtual Group. Download this flyer HERE. We've included the PSD, High Rez JPG, and web-rez JPG for your custom use.
New sports yard signs are now available in the Eclipse and Hyper designs. Find these yard signs in the TSS, TSU and TSP markets.
We have put together a marketing plan to help you make extra revenue for back to school. The plan starts in August with a large focus on face masks. There are a couple sales opportunities with a 3-Day 10% Off Back to School Stock Up starting on Friday, August 7th and a 10% Off Sale ...
We have 3 NEW TSS ViewFirst SPORTS powerpoint sales presentations with "SAFE Session" language added in! You can delete slides (we have both youth and high school slides in the overall) to customize it more. You will also need to add in your information to the front and to the last slide on all presentations! ...
CCS is excited to introduce the addition of our NEW Face Mask Products! We are offering two different types: 1) The SMILE MASK that takes your customer's face and puts it in a choice of four designs -- it will literally PUT A SMILE on your face, hopefully with a lot of PROFITS! A very unique and ...
We have a new customizable Composites Booklet and Quote Sheet available for you to download HERE. These are PSD files, that let you add your logos, pricing, and customize to your business. The larger one is an 11X17 folded in half for a really nice booklet. The quote sheet is 8.5X11 and will allow you to insert it ...
Offers you can copy and modify: CCS – TSS – SPORTS – Personality/Smile MASKS CCS – TSS – SCHOOL – Personality/Smile MASKS CCS – TSE – SPORTS – Personality/Smile MASKS CCS – TSE – SCHOOL – Personality/Smile MASKS CCS – TSU – SCHOOL – Personality/Smile MASKS Products Set up individually and as pick a pack ...
Below are updated links to information about Virtual Celebration Products. Personal Achievement Graphics (includes samples and customization information): Options for PAGs (slides) How to order a PAG slideshow (includes instruction video): PAG slideshow instructions Virtual Graduations/Celebrations (includes instruction video): How to offer products for a Virtual Graduation/Celebration
We're excited to announce we now have TSS face masks available with fun TSS sayings and logos, branded so you can put your logo where your mouth is! Choose from 10 fun styles. The masks are printed on a 2-ply, super soft cotton/poly mix and have very soft, stretchy ear loops. The TSS face masks ...
From our 2020 Summer Conference Online are the New Product Flyers! New Products Flyer 2020_Front New Products Flyer 2020_Back New Product Flyer Rock New Product Flyer Hyper
Many are returning to work and want safe and paper-free ways to collect data (which also saves on data entry...making you more profitable). We offer several ways to collect data. Event level registration link How-To This link has information for setting up an event-level registration that could be used if you do not have info ...
You can now use PhotoMatch with Sony Cameras using the Sony Edge Remote program. Learn how to download, install and setup the program here. PhotoMatch Update An updated version of PhotoMatch has been posted. Find the download here. v.3.5.7.2 update includes: The ability to mark images as yearbook pose eligible The ability to use recent models of ...
Setup emails and SMS text messages for a single event over multiple days based on when people were photographed when you use PhotoMatch. A how-to document and how-to video are available on how to setup the templates within a campaign to be based on the PhotoMatch Photo day offset, view those articles here. Please contact Customer ...
We have created a new resource for training: https://information.candid.com/training. If you have ever had a new employee that needs to learn the software at CCS and wished that there was a place you could send them to watch some videos, read a few articles and take a quiz or two, this is it! You may even ...
A new version of the PhotoMatch v3.5.7.2 has been posted v.3.5.7.2 Updates include: The ability to mark images as yearbook pose eligible The ability to use recent models of Sony Cameras Find the links to the install file and install instructions here.
A quick reminder on all the Safe Ceremonies and Sessions resources available. The Ultimate Guidebook to Virtual & Safe Ceremonies Download the College/University guide and psd files. Download the High School guide and psd files. Safe Ceremonies Email in CORE We have added the "Safe Ceremonies We're Here to Help Email" to the TSS Lead ...
We now have three new ENVIRONMENT-SAFE materials that will instantly let your customer know the depths you are going to to keep them safe! We have new 15x15 Safe Distance Feet Decals that you can place on the ground at your event for your lines, or anywhere you are shooting to keep the subjects 6 feet apart. They will ...
Checkout the Celebration Page of Northeastern State University. NSU, a long time client of Candid Color Photography, took advantage of the virtual ceremony products being offer by Candid Color Systems to create their custom virtual ceremony. CCP provided the school with Personal Achievement Graphics for each graduate, as well as, intro and outro slides for each ...
If you would like to share with your audience how you plan to conduct safe ceremonies you'll want to make sure to include the new Safe Ceremonies page to your site. View the Safe Ceremonies page here. Directions to add the page to your site: Login to your account: tssphotography.com/login Navigate to the Pages tab Find ...
We have created a flyer/email for you to use to send out to all your sports customers/leagues RIGHT NOW to let them know you are still here and are ready to start shooting SAFE SPORTS SESSIONS as soon as they are! We have made the PSD files available if you would like to customize HERE (updated, please ...
Designs that read "Happy Birthday" with and without images are now available. These can be added to offers as Photographer Created Artwork Yard Signs. Download a folder of the following pieces here: JPEGs Offer Graphics PCA Upload Renders Contact Customer Support for help adding these to your offer. An email template will be available soon.
We have updated both Grad Ceremony Guides with an EVEN BETTER Celebration Page feature! The Celebration Page can now accept up to 10 videos (versus 3)! Please update the Guide you have been sending out/using with these new guides. The update has been made to page 7 (Celebration Page), for those of you who have ...
We have added a football design to the sports themed spirit sticks group. Offers have been updated to reflect this addition. They are setup by single spirit stick and in groupings by style: CCS - TSS - SPORTS - Sport Themed Spirit Sticks Find the following assets below to share with your customers today! Emails - now ...
Use this email to start a discussion with schools on how you can provide them with safe and virtual graduation ceremony options. This email gives schools tons of options to choose from! Get the email along with psd files here.
A consolidated campaign for Yard Signs and Spirit Sticks is now available. There are templates for just yard signs, just spirit sticks, and a combo email. Those emails can be found in CORE. Email graphics can also be found under Marketing Materials. Default offers for Themed Spirit Sticks and Yard Signs are also now available...these ...
The Spring Marketing Plan has been extended to include a 3 Day Sale over Memorial Day weekend featuring 15% off. Other changes to the plan include adding more home decor emails with statuette versions. To see the full plan, click here.
Introduction Letters Virtual Celebration Intro Letter The Ultimate Guidebook on Virtual & Safe Ceremonies - High School The Ultimate Guidebook on Virtual & Safe Ceremonies - Colleges & Universities Logos Safe Ceremonies Logos Safe Sessions Logos Virtual Celebration Logos Drive Thru Ceremonies Logos Ceremonies by Appointment Logo Flyers Virtual Celebration COLLEGE info flyer Virtual Celebration ...
If you have been thinking about a remarketing campaign to get sales on past events, we are here to help! Now, you can have our support department re-market your past photos. Images from the past still have value, maybe more now than ever. We continue to see sales on images that are several months or ...
In case you missed it…..If you missed these recent webinars, click the link to see them now QR Registration setup in CORE CCS has a new feature that allows for direct access to a personal registration site. This feature means that images can be immediately ID’d to data and marketing can begin immediately! This tool ...
We are excited to share new products coming out soon for Spring! There are three new Styles: Glimmer, High Voltage and Uniform. These styles can be customized with color, name and year. As an economic alternative to Virtual Groups we have developed composite digital artwork options. These simple composites allow for up to 50 students ...
Now available are a few different marketing pieces showcasing several types of Storybook backgrounds. These backgrounds are available in CORE and now you can advertise them! Included are jpegs and psd files. Customize them with your company's logo/information and up your sales this holiday season! Access these materials here.
The full November Marketing Guide is now available. Find the campaign under 2021 TSS Fall Marketing. The template names for each email can be found in the marketing guide. Do you need our help getting the holiday campaign active on your account? Just let us know! Please email CCSsupport@candid.com with subject line TSS Holiday Remarketing ...
