Blog

04/12/2017

For members of the Click Group, Light Blue has an integration with the ClickBook booking system. We’re continuing to work with the developers of ClickBook v2 to make our integration more helpful to photographers using our systems. We’re pleased to announce that ClickBook is now sending details of follow-on bookings made in their system to […]

22/11/2017

This is the second 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. In my previous article, I discussed how Nick Church Photography relies on Light Blue to handle all aspects of my bookings, customers and shoots to […]

22/11/2017

We’ve made Light Blue a powerful and versatile tool for running your photography business. We understand that photography businesses come in all shapes and sizes, and with different needs depending on your particular genre(s) of work. What you may not know is that Light Blue can also be used to help organise other types of […]

02/11/2017

The new ClickBook system has been integrated directly with Light Blue, so ClickBook v2 bookings will appear directly in your copies of Light Blue when you sync it to our servers. Using ClickBook with Light Blue requires you to be using Light Blue version 6 or newer, and to have a subscription to our online […]

31/10/2017

We’ve just released a minor update to our iOS app, which fixes a problem that could make it hard to preview the text of a contract. If your iOS devices aren’t set to automatically install app updates, you can manually update your copy of our app by going into the App Store app on each […]

26/10/2017

We’re pleased to announce that we are now able to offer a data import service for The Photographic Organiser (TPO) customers who want to import their data into Light Blue. Here’s a summary of the TPO data that we’re importing into Light Blue: Job types Products Contacts & people Jobs & events Invoice totals Receipts […]

19/10/2017

Matt Ross is a family and headshot photographer, offering a mix of on location, and studio based shoots from just outside of London, in the UK. After a successful career in the world of finance, working in both the Formula One industry, and for a Big Four professional services firm, Matt brings his professionalism and […]

19/10/2017

Here at Light Blue Software we work hard to deliver the type of customer service that we’d like to receive ourselves, and like to think that it makes a difference to our customers. The SWPP Trade Awards offers us an opportunity to be recognised for this, and maybe take home a trophy too. So if […]

03/10/2017

We’ll be at The Societies of Photographers Roadshow in Gravesend on Wednesday 4th October & Birmingham on Thursday 5th October. It’s a great opportunity to come and see us at the free trade show as well as enjoy the fantastic programme of masterclasses. Gravesend masterclasses Sanjay Jogia FSWPP – Evolve or Evaporate (10:00-11:00) Scott Johnson FSWPP […]

02/10/2017

The French government is introducing a new set of financial regulations called NF525 on 1 January 2018. Only photographers with businesses based in France are affected by NF525, so please don’t be concerned by this if you’re not based in France. NF525 is designed to combat fraud, and is aimed at cash register and accounting […]

14/09/2017

In the very near future, Apple are going to release macOS High Sierra and iOS 11. 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 both new operating systems. Light Blue 6 and the latest […]

30/08/2017

In order to support some new features that we’re working on at the moment, we need to make some changes to the servers that run our online services. We’ll be carrying out these updates early on Saturday and Sunday to try and minimise any disturbance to our online services. The only part of our online […]

29/08/2017

We’ve just released Light Blue 6.2.3, 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: The ‘Export Records’ dialog now defaults to the […]

26/08/2017

We’re going to be taking advantage of the bank holiday weekend here in the UK to make some updates to our servers on Monday morning. Most of you shouldn’t notice any problems, and of course your Light Blue desktop and mobile apps will continue to work offline, but there might be some interruptions to our […]

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 […]