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We’re going live twice today in Captura Community 🍂 First up is The Fall Readiness Community Playbook where we’ll share quick wins studios can implement now to save time, increase participation, and grow average order value before the fall season hits. 🕖 Fall Readiness Session: Today, 2:00 PM EDT / 11:00 AM PDT 🔗 Register here: https://bit.ly/4e8ZjRd Then later today, join us for our casual monthly Office Hours focused on fall workflow and automation hacks. Bring questions, challenges, or just listen in and hear what’s working for other studios. 🕣 Office Hours: Today, 3:30 PM EDT / 12:30 PM PDT 🔗 Join here: https://bit.ly/3S7g9Y3

Faster galleries do more than save time. They help parents purchase sooner. That’s why we’re excited about 3/4 Crop in Captura Workflow. It expands AI Crop beyond headshots, so studios can move more senior portraits and upper body compositions through their workflow with less manual effort. Less time cropping. Faster turnaround. More opportunities to make more during peak season. If you missed the blog, now’s a good time to catch up: https://bit.ly/4fzayUb

Big update for SPOA 2026 attendees 👏 MVP 2026 is now included with your SPOA conference ticket at no additional cost. Reserve your spot now: https://bit.ly/498pc0S Join us Monday, June 22 for a full day of practical learning, workflow and growth strategies, hands-on workshops, and collaboration with studios from across the industry. Learn more about MVP here: https://bit.ly/4fx9S1y

We’re excited to welcome Amanda LaFleur to Captura as our newest Customer Success Manager. Amanda will be partnering closely with studios to help them make more through the Captura ecosystem, bringing a customer-first mindset and passion for growth along the way.

A great season doesn’t end at the sale. It ends when the order arrives exactly as families expected. Tomorrow at The Volume Virtual Summit, Captura Preferred Lab Partners are sharing real-world insights on reducing fulfillment issues, improving consistency, and creating a smoother experience from order to delivery. If you want fewer production headaches and happier customers, register now: https://bit.ly/4tDFOoD We really appreciate your insight, Coby Lonas, Josh Lewis, Rick Casey & Cruz Conner.

At a certain point, growth stops being about working harder and starts being about building better systems. This Friday at The Volume Virtual Summit, Heather Waters of Watermark Photography and Roger P. of The StudioPack will share what it takes to move beyond hustle mode and build a studio that can scale with consistency. Register now: https://bit.ly/4nwnmNi If your processes are starting to feel stretched, this session is for you.

Here's a sneak peek 👀 May 15, 2026 • 1–3pm ET Register now: https://bit.ly/4dlqcjq At The Volume Virtual Summit, Kelly Doherty, Captura’s Director of Studio Marketing, and Eric Leszkowicz, Owner at Keepsake Portraits LLC will share how they are improving engagement with families, increasing participation, and creating a smoother path from notification to purchase. This session is packed with practical strategies and real-life examples focused on helping studios stay top-of-mind beyond picture day and drive stronger results without adding more complexity.

This Inside the Studio feature with the Cherished Memories Photography team was filmed on Thanksgiving, but the message goes way beyond one holiday. Growth takes resilience, great people, and a community that keeps showing up for each other year after year. We visited the team to hear the real stories behind the growth, the challenges, and everything they’re grateful for along the way. A good reminder that gratitude doesn’t have to wait for November. Watch now: https://bit.ly/4nhUjN1

Growth should not feel like chaos. Join Freddy Villarreal at the free Volume Virtual Summit on May 15 for a keynote on scaling your business without losing control of your time, energy, and direction. Save your spot: https://bit.ly/42YTWgZ You’ll also hear practical strategies from studios and industry leaders on parent engagement, scalable workflows, and preparing for the high volume photography busy season. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3PmKhxL

Senior growth is not about adding more sessions. It comes from how you run them. Studios seeing the biggest gains are setting clear packages, collecting better data upfront, and delivering galleries that are easy to buy from. Small changes in the system lead to bigger results. 👉 See how: https://bit.ly/4t1yhPT