Team card → ⋮ menu → Make photos of players. The screen splits the squad into two blocks — Profile photo missing and Profiles with photo — with counters, so you can see who is still to be shot.
Each player takes less than a minute: shoot, crop, save. The whole squad fits into one go before a training session.
Why it is worth doing
A photo looks like decoration right up until the team starts appearing somewhere. And it appears in a lot of places.
- The team looks like a team. The same background and kit turn a list of surnames into a recognisable squad — your own people and your opponents both see it.
- A photo does not stay inside the player card. It is pulled into posters, into broadcasts when the line-ups are announced, and into match events — when the app shows who scored or who was booked.
- It matters more to parents and players than to the coach. A child is visible in matches, in statistics, in publications. The team stops being a table and becomes a story worth following.
Nobody makes you photograph the squad, and everything works without it. It is simply one of those rare cases where ten minutes of work noticeably changes the impression a team leaves.
The shooting screen
Open the team card, ⋮ menu in the header → Make photos of players. The item is available to someone who has the right to edit the team.
On this screen the squad is split into two groups, each with a number in its heading:
| Block | What is in it |
|---|---|
| Profile photo missing (N) | Who has not been shot yet — start here |
| Profiles with photo (N) | Cards already done; players move here as you shoot |
That is the main convenience of the screen: you do not have to remember who has been done and who has not — the top block empties in front of you, and the job ends by itself.
Shooting at a tournament: every team at once
The screen has a second entrance, from the tournament side, and it works differently. The tournament page → the ⋮ menu → Make photos of players. What opens is not one team but a list of every team in the tournament. Each row carries a round indicator on the right, and that is what tells you where the team stands: green with a tick — everybody has been shot; red with a number — that many players still have no photo; red with a people icon — this team has no players in its application at all. Tapping a team opens the same two-block screen.
Under the team name the app adds Older photo date — how long ago the oldest shot of that squad was taken («2 months ago»). The line only appears once at least one photo exists; a team without a single photo simply does not have it — the red counter speaks instead.
The easiest place to shoot is the tournament itself: both teams are already on the pitch, in kit, and nobody has to be rounded up separately. The list of teams shows who is well covered and who is empty — so a single match day can close several squads at once, without opening each team's card.
Shooting the whole squad
- Gather the team before a training session. Ask them to come in the same kit and stand them against one background — a wall, a fence, a gate, anything plain.
- Tap the first player in the Profile photo missing block. The app offers to take a photo with the camera or pick an existing file.
- Crop the shot in the editor that opens and save.
- Repeat down the list. The player moves straight into Profiles with photo, and you simply work through what is left.
A squad of 15–20 takes five to ten minutes — provided everyone is standing there and you are not hunting people down.
The round crop and the background
After the shot the Image editing screen opens. The frame is cropped into a circle — that is how the photo will be shown in cards, line-ups and events, so keep the face in the middle rather than at the edge.
What the editor offers:
- Background removal — takes the backdrop out. Useful when the background came out busy or people were shot in different places: without it the frames look more consistent. It is a button, not a mandatory step: the work is takes time, and on some devices it goes through the server — on a weak connection the wait is then noticeable. Shooting pitchside on bad internet — just leave it alone, the background can come off later.
- Reset — go back to the original if you have overdone it.
- Results — a preview of what you are about to get.
- Retake photo — shoot again without leaving the player's card.
The app scales the shot down on upload, so chasing resolution makes no difference. Even light and a clearly visible face matter far more.
What happens to a photo
A saved shot does two things at once: it becomes the player's profile photo and lands in his Photo gallery. Older frames are not lost — the history stays in the gallery.
From there the app uses that photo by itself: in the player card, in line-ups, in posters and broadcasts. Nothing has to be uploaded separately.
Replacing and refreshing
Tapping the card of a player who has already been shot opens the full menu:
- Replace — retake or upload a different file;
- Edit — go back into the editor with the current shot, without reshooting;
- Photo gallery — the player's photos for posters, see below;
- Download file and Copy link — if the photo needs to go somewhere else;
- Delete — the shot goes for good.
The round shot from this screen is the profile photo: it is what appears in cards, line-ups and match events. Photo gallery opens a different set — full-length shots and poses that the app drops into posters. That is also where they are uploaded and replaced. One does not replace the other: the profile photo is enough for everyday work, poses are for when you want good-looking posters.
The team card shows Older photo date — when the oldest shot in the squad was taken. For youth teams that is a useful marker: over a year the kids change enough that the photos stop looking like them.
Shooting in practice
- The same kit. The single thing that makes a squad look like one. Agree on it in advance.
- One background for everyone. A plain wall beats a picturesque pitch: faces do not get lost and the frames look like a series.
- Even light. An overcast day or shade works better than bright sun in the face and hard shadows.
- The same distance. Shoot everyone from one distance, otherwise some heads end up bigger than others in the line-up.
- Before the first match. Then the very first posters, broadcasts and news come out with faces rather than placeholders. You can reshoot later, but publications that have already gone out cannot be redone.
Troubleshooting
There is no «Make photos of players» item
It is available to someone with the right to edit the team. If the item is missing, request access from the team owner.
A player is not in the shooting list
Then he is not in the team. Add him first — with the Invite player link from the team card.
The photo came out badly
Open the player's card and tap Replace or Retake photo. The old frame stays in the player's photo gallery.
The backgrounds are busy and the frames do not match
The editor has Background removal — it saves the day when people were shot in different places or in a hurry.
The coach's path as a whole is in the «Coach's guide».
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