Blog

15/08/2017

This is the first in a series of articles written by photographer & Light Blue customer, Nick Church, about how Light Blue has helped him to grow his photography business. Do what you do best, outsource the rest To be a successful photographer, your business needs sound marketing, PR and sales strategies as well as […]

07/08/2017

Nick Ray is a photojournalist, and wedding photographer based just outside of London, in the UK. Following his boyhood dream, Nick studied photography at art college, and worked his way up to becoming a photographer for The Times in London, where he spent more than 10 years covering assignments in far-flung destinations alongside some of […]

12/06/2017

We’ll be at The Societies of Photographers Roadshow in Widnes on Wednesday 21st June. It’s a great opportunity to come and see us at the free trade show as well as enjoy the fantastic programme of masterclasses: • Catherine Connor – Refine your Business (09:30-10:30) • Jocelyn Conway – Newborn Photography Safety (11:30-12:30) • Terry Donnelly […]

06/06/2017

We’ve just released Light Blue 6.2.2, our latest minor update to Light Blue 6. Here’s the list of feature updates and bug fixes that you’ll find in this latest update, which you can get hold of by using the ‘Check for updates’ command from within Light Blue: When you use the ‘Add to Found Set: […]

03/04/2017

We’ve just released Light Blue 6.2.1, which builds upon last week’s Light Blue 6.2 release. This minor update fixes a problem caused by a recent update to Outlook that could prevent Light Blue from being able to import emails from Outlook on Windows.

28/03/2017

We regularly release free updates to Light Blue that tweak existing features and fix bugs. Today, we released Light Blue 6.2 for macOS and Windows, which adds a variety of enhancements as well as fixing a few bugs. If you’re one of our subscribers, or if you’ve bought a standalone licence for Light Blue 6, you […]

13/03/2017

The Photography Show in Birmingham is the UK’s biggest photography trade show, and we’ll be there on stand A68 from Saturday 17 March through to Tuesday 21 March. If you’d like to find out more about how Light Blue can help you to run a successful photography business, we’d be delighted to see you there. We’ll be running demos throughout […]

09/03/2017

We’re going to be carrying out some essential server maintenance this Sunday morning, from 07:00 GMT. Our online services will be briefly interrupted. From previous experience, we expect the downtime to only be a couple of minutes. Light Blue’s desktop and iOS apps will continue to work while our servers are offline, but our online […]

06/03/2017

  Light Blue’s online forms and contracts are among its most popular features, and they’ve been particularly useful to photographers who want to cut down on the amount of admin work that they have to do. Using Light Blue’s contact forms makes it easier to keep track of enquiries and use Light Blue to convert them […]

12/01/2017

We’re really luck to have Suzanne Black joining us one our stand at the Societies Convention 2017. Suzanne is an award-winning professional Scottish wedding photographer offering a bespoke client service, shooting all types of weddings from intimate elopement weddings to grand Scottish castle weddings and everything in between. Working from her studio on the family farm in Fife, Suzanne also shoots […]

12/01/2017

We’re delighted to have Mark joining us on our stand at the Societies 2017 trade show. Mark Ashworth has been a full time photographer for over 20 years, and prides himself on the very best in professional photography and unsurpassed customer service. His studio specialises in portrait photography for all ages and a variety of genres. Mark is also a […]

12/01/2017

We’re excited to have fine art film wedding photographer Jay Emme working with us on our stand at the Societies 2017 Convention. Jay has a tremendously relaxed and fun approach to her wedding photography which you can see on her website. I’m an international film wedding photographer, and run my business from my office at home. As […]

04/01/2017

There are so many excellent talks & events lined up for The Societies of Photographers 2017 Convention that we thought we’d take a little time to highlight some particularly interesting speakers. Catherine Connor – Aspire Photography Training The wonderful Catherine Connor of Aspire is going to be rather busy indeed at The Societies of Photographers 2017 convention as she presents seven different […]

19/12/2016

Although we’re still hard at work here in the Light Blue bunker this week (19th December), we thought we should take some time out to let you know when we’ll be available to help anyone who’s going to be busy over the Christmas and New Year period. Whether you’re a wedding photographer who’s looking forward […]

11/11/2016

Because your photography business is based around shoots, a lot of Light Blue’s features are centred around shoot records, too. Whenever you receive a new enquiry, we’d recommend creating a new shoot record. Recording enquiries manually doesn’t take a great deal of time, and to start off, you only need to record some basic information: When is […]

07/11/2016

Light Blue makes it easier than ever to stay in touch with your clients, or make sure that they turn up for their appointments because you can send text messages directly from within our desktop and mobile apps. Text messages can be sent to individual clients, but we’ve also created tools that make it easy to […]

05/10/2016

Light Blue is built using a variety of software development tools, and one of the most important is Xojo. Xojo allows us to produce native apps that run on macOS, Windows, and iOS, but also to share a lot of those apps’ important logic between all of those platforms. That reduces the time it takes us to […]

29/09/2016

Apple released macOS Sierra last week, and by most accounts it’s a good, stable update to macOS. We’ve heard very little about incompatibilities and Light Blue is running well on it, with one potential snag. Sierra introduces a new iCloud feature called Desktop & Documents sync. This moves the contents of your Desktop and Documents into […]

16/09/2016

Earlier this year, we launched Light Blue 6.1 and were delighted to be able to introduce integration with ShootProof. ShootProof provides stylish online galleries that beautifully showcase your work, and intuitive sales tools that help you to sell your images to clients. They’re also leading the way with allowing developers like us to automatically gather information […]

12/09/2016

It’s all very well recording your income, but unless you also have your expenditure in the same system then you can’t see how profitable your business is. The advantage of managing your photography business in Light Blue is that everything linked together. It allows you to quickly & easily run reports on the financial state […]

07/09/2016

We regularly release free updates to Light Blue that tweak existing features and fix bugs. Today, we released Light Blue 6.1.3 for Mac OS X and Windows. If you’re one of our subscribers, or if you’ve bought a standalone licence for Light Blue 6, you can download this latest update by using the ‘Check For […]

05/09/2016

In a couple of weeks, Apple are going to be releasing macOS Sierra (yes, they really have stopped called it “Mac OS X”) and iOS 10. Because many of our customers like to upgrade their Macs, iPhones, and iPads as soon as new operating systems become available, we’ve been testing the latest versions of our apps with […]

22/08/2016

We’re pleased to announce a major update to our iOS app, Light Blue for iOS 3.0, which brings huge improvements to Light Blue for iPhone and iPad users. Helping you to run your photography business on the go Version 3 of our mobile app has been rewritten to be faster, easier to use, and bring across some of […]

22/08/2016

Although most of our customers seem to prefer using iPhones and iPads, we’re very keen to make Light Blue available on as many mobile devices as possible. Currently, it’s only available on iOS, but we are planning to bring Light Blue to Android. Our original iOS app was written by a team of external developers and, […]