The new Art Template Editor is now available in Eye.Photo, giving studios a dedicated way to create their own reusable art templates directly inside the platform.

Turn your Photoshop file into an interactive template, or duplicate one of our existing Eye.Photo template and customize it into something that fits your studio's style, products, events, or wall art collections.

Templates created with the Art Template Editor are custom and private to your studio. Only the studio that created a template can see and use it, so your designs stay separate from the shared Eye.Photo template library and from other studios.

Why it matters

The Art Template Editor turns template creation into a studio workflow. You can prepare branded layouts, experiment with new visual styles, create reusable wall art designs, and keep your own template library private to your team.

Learn the workflow

The video above walks through creating a custom art template step by step, including how to use an existing Eye.Photo template as a starting point for your own variation.

It's available to everyone directly in Art Editor

AI Magic Eraser is now available in the photo editor, giving your team a faster way to clean up iris photos without leaving Eye.photo.

Draw a mask over the area you want to fix, then let Eye.photo rebuild the selected detail with AI. It is designed for small distractions, edge cleanups, dust, eyelashes, reflections, and other marks that slow down final editing.

Where to find it

Open a photo in the Photo Editor and click AI Magic Eraser from the editor tools.

Inside the Magic Eraser modal, the how-to video is available at the bottom of the right-side menu, so you can watch the workflow while you are editing.

What you can do now

• Brush a mask over the exact area you want to remove and adjust the brush size for small or larger repairs.
• Run AI Magic Eraser on the current edited image, so the result matches the version you are actually working on.
• Use Rotate & Blend to rotate nearby iris texture into a masked area and apply it as a controlled repair.
• Compare Original, Edited, and Mask views before saving the result.
• Undo, redo, clear, cancel, or save and close from the same fullscreen editing modal.
• Keep transparent edges and fitted renders consistent when Magic Eraser creates the repaired image.

Why it matters

Iris cleanup often requires small, careful fixes. AI Magic Eraser keeps that work inside Eye.photo, reduces round trips to external editors, and gives teams a focused way to remove distractions while preserving the natural iris texture.

Event art automation is now available for photo events, helping you move from a finished eye enhancement to ready-to-use artwork all automatically.

When this option is enabled for an event, Eye.photo can create the event artwork in the background after an event photo finishes enhancing. That keeps the event workflow moving while the team continues capturing and processing photos.

Where to find it

Open an event, go to the Art tab, then open Setup art template and art automations.

Choose the event template and enable Automatically create art when enhancement finishes.

What you can do now

• Select the default event art template for the event.
• Automatically create artwork after an event photo enhancement completes.
• Keep art generation running in the background while the team continues with the event workflow.
• See whether event artwork was created automatically or manually in the event art list.
• Use one-eye templates for automatic event art generation.

Why it matters

Events are fastest when each finished eye photo can move straight toward artwork without another repetitive step. Event art automation helps reduce manual clicks, keeps production consistent, and makes it easier to deliver finished event art while the session is still active.

You can now create a printable dashboard report from your studio dashboard and save it as a PDF.

The report uses the same dashboard data your team already relies on, but lets you choose exactly which sections to include before opening a print-ready report page.

Where to find it

Open the Dashboard and click Download report near the date filter.

What you can do now

• Choose summary cards such as photos, product revenue, money saved, and new customers.
• Include charts for photos, hours saved, customers, art, and products sold.
• Add lists such as top art templates, top products, and editor performance when available.
• Open a print-styled report in a new tab.
• Save the report as a PDF from the browser print window.

Why it matters

Dashboard reports make it easier to share studio performance with owners, managers, and team members without manually copying numbers from the dashboard. Pick the sections that matter, generate the report, and save a clean PDF for review or record keeping.

Studio owners can now create User groups to control what individual team members are allowed to do in Eye.photo.

Instead of every studio user having the same access, you can create named permission sets for different responsibilities: editors, assistants, sales staff, event teams, or any workflow your studio uses.

Where to find it

Open Users → Roles & Permissions here: eye.photo/users?tab=roles_and_permissions.

Create a new group directly here: eye.photo/user_groups/new.

What you can do now

• Create named groups with a clear description for your team.
• Choose the permissions each group should have.
• Assign a group to a studio user when inviting or editing a team member.
• Preview allowed and restricted permissions before saving a user.
• Set a default group for new invites.

Why it matters

Studio teams often need different levels of access. A photo editor may need to upload photos and create art, while another teammate may only need limited day-to-day tools. User groups let studio owners keep access focused without giving everyone full studio-user permissions.

Groups can only limit what the base Studio user role already allows, so they are designed to reduce access safely rather than grant extra owner-level control.

Product Categories are now available, making it easier to organize the products your studio offers and faster to find the right item when adding products to a photo.

Where to find it

Manage products here: eye.photo/products_setting?tab=products.

Manage categories directly here: eye.photo/products_setting/categories.

What changed

• Create product categories such as frames, jewelry, keychains, or any grouping that fits your studio.
• Assign products to categories from the product form.
• Filter the products list by category in Product Settings.
• Reorder categories so the most useful groups appear first.
• Pick a category first when adding products to a photo, then choose from the products in that group.

Why it matters

As studios add more products, one long product list becomes harder to scan. Categories keep the setup page cleaner and make day-to-day product selection faster for the team.

You can now manage how art templates appear for your studio: give templates clearer names and hide the ones you do not want to use in the art editor.

Where to find it

Open the Templates tab in Art Settings: eye.photo/art_settings?tab=templates.

What changed

• Rename templates for your studio, without changing the original template for everyone else.
• Hide templates you do not want to show in the art editor.
• Bring hidden templates back anytime from the same Templates tab.
• Filter templates by eye count, visibility, and favorites so large template libraries are easier to manage.

Why it matters

Studios often work with different product lines, languages, and sales workflows. Template management lets each studio keep the art editor focused on the designs they actually offer, with names that make sense for their team.

We added a new Feature Requests space so your team can help shape what Eye.photo builds next.

Instead of ideas getting lost in chats or support threads, you can now collect them in one place, see what other studios care about, and follow along as requests move forward.

Where to find it

Open Feature Requests directly here: eye.photo/feature-requests.

You can also find it from the home screen on the right side, where it appears with the other quick-access items.

What you can do now

• Submit feature ideas with a clear title, markdown description, and optional image attachments.
• Vote on requests so the most useful ideas rise to the top.
• Join the discussion with comments and follow-up context.
• Follow requests you create, comment on, or care about manually.
• Track your own ideas from the new My Feature Requests page.
• Receive email updates when requests get comments, status changes, official admin updates, or completion notices.

Why it matters

Eye.photo is used by studios with different workflows, products, and customer journeys. Feature Requests gives you a direct way to show us where the platform should improve, while giving everyone more visibility into what is being considered, worked on, and completed.

We also improved request previews so markdown descriptions stay readable in cards and admin rows, and added admin tooling to keep requests tidy as feedback evolves.

🚀 New Eye.photo Photoshop Plugin for Mac and Windows

We’re excited to release a major update to the official Photoshop plugin for Eye.photo making it faster and easier to send, view, and manage iris photos directly inside Photoshop.

🎥 Video Tutorial Included

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✨ What’s New

⚡ Direct Eye.photo Integration

Upload and sync photos directly from Photoshop to your Eye.photo workspace without leaving your editing workflow.

👁 View Existing Eye.photo Projects

Browse and open your existing Eye.photo images and projects directly inside the plugin.

🔄 Faster Workflow

Reduce export/import steps and streamline professional iris editing workflows for studios and photographers.

🖼 Automatic Image Updates

Update edited images back to Eye.photo instantly after retouching or compositing in Photoshop.

Download Plugin here

👥 Customer Relationships

You can now assign relationships between customers such as Family, Friends, Couple, and more.

This makes the Art Editor much smarter, related eye photos will now be automatically suggested together while creating artwork.

It also becomes much easier to differentiate between photos belonging to the same family or group.

Demo video

This feature is available in all accounts.

Capture One plugin

We just released our new Capture One Plugin support for both Mac and Windows workflows.

• Faster handoff from selected Capture One images to Eye.Photo processing
• Cleaner studio workflow for high-volume iris sessions
• Quicker delivery from selection to final export

Watch the Mac plugin demo

Useful links

• Read the Mac plugin article
• Read the Windows plugin article
• Download plugin

You can now apply padding and cropping to the art image.

Demo video:

You can now upload your already edited iris images so that you can use them in art editor and in iris analysis.

Demo video:

This feature is available to all Studio plan accounts

Create custom tags for iris photos and manage your process the way you run your business.

Demo video:

Tags are available in all plans.

Manage your iris photo events with our new "Events" management system

Watch demo video:

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This feature is available to all our Studio and Franchise plans

You can now create custom settings presets. For example you can have presets for different eye colors or different finishing styles.

Demo video:

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You can create and edit presets in Photo settings

You can now add a vignette over the pupil to make the iris more dimensional and circular.

This feature is available for all plans

You can now re-center the pupil for any iris.

This feature is available to all plans

New explosion collection of 5 templates for 2, 3, 4 and 5 eyes.

You can now customize the art download size.
Create sizes in cm, inches or pixels specifically for your own studio print sizes.

How to do it?

Go to Art settings and create new size.

This feature is available for free to all Studio subscriptions

You can now create your own custom Iris Web Store and sell necklaces, keychains, golf balls, and more — automatically.

How does it work?

After your client purchases their iris print, you simply send them a follow-up email offering additional products.

Zazzle handles product creation, payment, and shipping to the customer, and you receive your payout at the end of the month.

Watch our intro video:

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Go to https://eye.photo/store to activate and setup your store integration.

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There are 1000s of custom products you can offer.

The Store is available as an add-on to your monthly subscription.

You can now customize any of your existing art templates and save them as a new custom art template.

This is a great feature when you have an event and you want to have a branded template with a logo that you can quickly reuse.

Our custom art templates support images, text and custom backgrounds.

Watch tutorial video:

This feature is available to all Studio and Franchise plans for free.

Now you can easily generate a PDF of all the templates we offer on our website, so you can present them to your customers.

Watch our tutorial video on how to generate a template book.

As a Studio Owner you can now setup all your photos to have a fixed pupil size.
All new photos will resize the pupil to that specific size.

Where to find it?

Go to photo settings -> Adjust "Pupil Size" slider -> Click "Save"

Available for free in all plans

New Water Splash collection.

6 templates for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 eyes

Available to all Studio plan accounts.

You can now upload your own custom art template, and change it on any of our existing designs.

Why this is useful?

• Make the standart templates unique to your studio style.
• Create event specific backgrounds with logos and text.

Watch our tutorial video:

Where to find it?

Go to Art editor and click "Edit" dropdown in the toolbar.

This feature is availalbe to all Studio plan subscribers.

You can now adjust brightness for any layer of the art.

Why this is helpful?

If you have a brown eye that is to dark and you want one of the effects to be brighter (ex. water splash) you can do it with just 2 clicks.

Video tutorial:

New RINGS collection.
7 templates for 2, 3, 4, and 5 eyes.

Available to all Studio plan accounts.

You can now re-upload iris image that was edited in an external software like Photoshop.

How does it work?

1. Use eye.photo to clean the iris
2. Download iris and modify it in Photoshop
3. Re-upload the modified iris to eye.photo
4. Use your modified iris in Art Generator or Iris Analysis.

Re-upload is available in the left context menu in the photo editor:

You can now connect your Gmail account to Eye.photo. All emails sent from the platform will be delivered directly from your own email address.

Go to Settings - Integrations

You can now switch between list view and grid view on the photos page.

Go to Photos and click on the grid icon:

5 new beautiful templates were just added to our library:

• Dandelion
• Music
• Mandala
• Dropping hearts
• Tripple heart

You can now create multiple custom email templates, separately for Iris Photos and Art Images, giving you full control over how your images are delivered to customers.

What’s new:

• Create and manage multiple email templates
• Use different templates for Iris photos and Art exports
• Duplicate templates to quickly create variations
• Build specific templates for events, campaigns, or individual workflows
• Fully customize content to match your studio branding

New dynamic fields available:

• [STUDIO_NAME]
• [STUDIO_LOGO]
• [PHOTO_DATE]
• [CUSTOMER_NAME]
• [CUSTOMER_EMAIL]
• [CUSTOMER_PHONE]

These fields are automatically replaced with real data when emails are sent, making every message personal and professional.

Where to set it up:

Go to Settings - Email

Custom Iris Export Sizes

You can now save your iris images in ready-to-use sizes, perfect for necklaces, mobile wallpapers, and smartwatches.

Available export sizes:

• Original – full resolution

Necklace sizes:

• 0.47 in (142 × 142 px)
• 0.55 in (165 × 165 px)
• 0.79 in / 2 cm (236 × 236 px)
• 1 in / 2.54 cm (300 × 300 px)

Mobile backgrounds:

• Portrait (1170 × 2532 px)
• Landscape (2532 × 1170 px)
• Smartwatch backgrounds
• Apple Watch (410 × 502 px)
• Android Watch (450 × 450 px)

Custom size:

• set your own dimensions

This makes exporting images for printing, jewelry, and devices fast and hassle-free.

Timezone & Date Format Settings 🌍

You can now customize how dates and times are displayed across the app.

• Set your local timezone so all dates reflect your location
• Choose your preferred date format
• Exported files and timestamps now match your studio settings

This ensures consistency across photos, exports, and reports.

Where to set it up?

Go to Studio Settings scroll down to "Time and Date" section

You can now upload up to 10 photos at once.

• Select up to 10 photos in a single upload
• All selected photos will automatically use the same customer details (name, email, reference ID, etc.)
• Faster workflow for sessions and events

Where to find it?

Go to Photos -> click Batch Upload

You can now control how photo and art files are named by including customer and studio details automatically.

What you can do:

Build custom filename patterns for Photos and Art

Include details like:

• Customer name or email
• Studio name
• Creation or export date
• Template name (for Art)
• Always keep a unique Photo ID / Art ID to avoid duplicates

This makes exported files easier to organize, search, and match with your workflows.

Where to set up?

Go to Photo Settings scroll down to "Download Settings" section

Add your own Reference ID to each photo (e.g. CRM ID, Booking ID, Client ID).

You can:
- Add a Reference ID when uploading a new photo
- Edit the Reference ID for existing photos
- Search photos using the Reference ID
- Export files with the Reference ID included in the filename

This makes it easy to link photos with your internal systems and workflows.

Where to find it?

Go to Photos -> click Add Photo

You can now use our new advanced AI Iris Analysis, which automatically delivers a unique, personalized story about each person’s eyes.

What happens automatically:

• Uniqueness Score based on iris rarity
• Detection of key iris anatomy features (crypts, collarette, freckles, furrows, pupil)
• Top 5 colors found in the iris
• personalized Iris Story
• Fun and educational eye facts
• A ready-to-share Iris Analysis Report

How to try it?

Go to Photo Details and click Iris Analysis.

Automatically sync your customer emails with your company’s Mailchimp account.

Once enabled, every new or updated customer will have their name and email automatically added or updated in your Mailchimp audience.

Find it in the side menu: Settings → Integrations

Open Integrations