Captura (formerly ImageQuix and Blueprint) is the ordering and gallery platform many volume studios sell through. Airstudio does not replace it. The integration makes the two systems agree on who each subject is, so that every message, ticket, and card Airstudio produces can carry that subject's Captura gallery, and so the roster you photograph in Airstudio is the roster Captura sells from.

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The whole integration turns on one number: the subject's Captura Online Code. Get that code onto each subject in Airstudio and everything below follows automatically.

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How the two systems fit together

Airstudio Captura Connected by
Subject Group Job You, when you build the subject group from the Captura job export
Subject (in a group) Subject The Online Code stored on the subject's membership in that group
Session, notifications, session ticket Subject gallery Automatically, from the Online Code

A subject's Online Code belongs to the subject within one subject group, not to the person. A senior photographed in the fall and again in the spring has two Captura subjects and two codes, one on each group membership, and each points to the right gallery.

Step 1: Connect the account

  1. In Captura, create API credentials for your account and copy the Client ID and Client Secret.
  2. In Airstudio go to Settings → Integrations → Captura and click Configure.
  3. Paste both values and save. Airstudio requests a token from Captura to prove the credentials work, then shows Captura Integration Enabled.

Connecting is what switches the Captura features on across Airstudio: the Captura column on subject tables, the Online Code button, the Captura column in CSV imports, and the email extraction tool. Until the card is enabled, none of them appear.

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Airstudio warns that changing the credentials is destructive. Treat the connection as set-and-forget. Disable clears the credentials and hides the Captura features; existing Online Codes stay on the subjects and return when you reconnect.

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Administrators, Regional Administrators, and Airstudio Support can configure the connection.

Step 2: Get subjects and their codes into Airstudio

The Online Code comes from Captura. There are two ways to put it on a subject in Airstudio.

Import the Captura job export. This is the normal route for a new season. Export the job from Captura Workflow with the Online Code column included, then import the CSV into the Airstudio subject group. When Captura is enabled, the import's column mapping offers a field named captura online code; map the Captura column to it and every subject arrives already linked. A subject that already has a code keeps it unless the import supplies a different one. The two pages below show how to build a reusable export in Workflow.

Type it on one subject. In a subject group's Subjects tab, or on a subject's own Subject Groups tab, the Captura column shows the current code with an Edit button. Click it, enter the Online Code, and save. Use this for late additions and corrections.

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Always include the Online Code column in your Captura export. Contact details are useful too, but the code is what links the two systems, and it cannot be guessed.

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Step 3: What happens automatically

The moment a subject has an Online Code, Airstudio creates two QR code images for them and stores them as files:

QR code Encodes Use
ID QR code The subject's Captura ID in the format Captura's tools scan Print on session tickets or cards so the photographer or lab scans the subject into the right record
Gallery QR code The subject's public gallery address Print on flyers, order forms, and the session ticket so a family opens their gallery with a phone camera