[AUS] Photo Studio Q&A: Food & Beverage Edition

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✨Be your own food stylist with the help of Square Photo Studio!✨

We're thrilled to welcome back @johnobc from the Square Photo Studio team for another Question & Answer event for restaurant, bar, and food industry businesses! Here are just a few of the latest feature improvements on the Square Photo Studio app for specifically for food & beverage:

• Real-time object detection to help guide high-quality images
• Access to Square's proprietary library of 1500+ common food & beverage items which you can add to your menus
• Textured backgrounds like wood and marble to help your items stand out

For more information, share with us any new questions, feedback, or updates on how it's going with the app so far.

When: Post your questions to this thread before Wednesday, Aug. 31 and check back with us on Thursday, Sept. 1 as he responds. 

A few example questions:

• What improvements to Square Photo Studio make it optimal for my menu items?

• If I could do "_______" with Photo Studio, that would make setting up my menu items so much easier.

• Beyond the app, what are the best tips and tricks for making the best item images?

Note: We can't share specific details on our product roadmaps, though this information will be helpful as we continue to make improvements.

Click Reply below to post a question ahead of time, and we’ll address as many posts as we can on Thursday, Sept. 1!👇

[dimo10]

Amazing app... I have just been going through and updating my catalogue.

Just wondering if Android/ desktop would be supported in the future?

Also if batch processing of pictures?

Could we get the app to download the current picture from square to update it and load it back.

Also a iPad version would be nice.

Thanks and keep up the great work.

[johnobc]

Great to hear! I always love it when the feature requests line up with what we’re planning on building 🙂 To answer your questions:

- Android/dashboard are definitely things we’re considering. If you had to choose, which would you rather we added?
- Batch processing is something we’re exploring now! Just curious - how many photos would you want to do in a batch?
- We’re working on an integration with the Square Image Library so you should soon have access to all your photos already on Square within the app. Stay tuned and sign up for auto updates and push notifications 🙂
- Agreed on an iPad version - this has come up a lot!

[NicRodda]

Have seen the app and it looks amazing, would be good if it was available on android however for those of us that don't own apple products. Is there any plans to make it available on the Google Play?

[johnobc]

Thanks! Unfortunately the app is iPhone only for now. We hope to someday make it available on Google Play but it will take some time to get there. It’s our top feature request though and definitely something we want to do!

[johnobc · Accepted solution]

Hello Everyone,

Thanks again for taking the time to share your questions and feedback!

We hope your questions were answered—the experiences you've shared will help us as we continue to iterate based on your feedback.

As we close out this event, we wanted to do a recap on three themes that came up frequently:

• Android & iPad support - we want to say thank you again to the Android community for participating in the Q&A and letting us know how much you want the app to work on your devices! We hear you but want to reiterate that it will take us time to get an Android version to the market. iPad support is a less daunting task and it’s something we’re looking at hopefully supporting by the end of this year

• Better background removal and background removal adjustments - we significantly improved background removal with the latest release so if you haven’t tried the app recently, definitely try it again. That being said, there are always going to be some items the app has issues with. To help us work on further improvements on background adjustments: We’d love for you to post any pictures, preferably with the original/non-removed set up, and we can try to figure out where we still have gaps

• Upcoming feature requests - a lot of the feature requests everyone’s asking for read our minds 🙂 we’re committed to continuing to improve the app so you should start to see more of what everyone’s look for in the coming months

We appreciate your experiences and we'll continue to develop the Square Photo Studio app based on your business needs. For the latest updates, keep watch for announcements of new features in Product Updates.