Blog

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, […]

16/08/2016

Throughout this short series of articles, we’ve been covering how to make the most out of the information that you’ve already entered into Light Blue. There’s a few different ways of finding useful information that’s already in Light Blue, both with Quick Queries and creating your own more specific searches using the Query Dialog. Once you’ve found the data you’re looking […]

15/08/2016

In this short series of articles, we’ve been covering how to make the most out of the information that you’ve already entered into Light Blue. We’ve previously looked at different ways of finding useful information that’s already in Light Blue, both with Quick Queries and creating your own more specific searches using the Query Dialog. That data […]

09/08/2016

This is the second instalment of a short series of articles that will be covering how to make the most out of the information that you’ve already entered into Light Blue. That data can tell you a lot about how your business is doing, and help you to take a step back and look at the bigger picture. The […]

09/08/2016

One of the great advantages of using Light Blue is that all of the information that you need is in one place. That data can tell you a lot about how your business is doing, and help you to take a step back and look at the bigger picture. That’s where Light Blue’s reporting features are […]

01/08/2016

Price lists are one of the many time-saving features built into Light Blue, allowing you to create a list of predefined products & services that can be used to quickly and accurately enter a quote or sale. They save lots of repetitive typing, or copying and pasting from old invoices. You can find out how […]

01/04/2016

With the online booking forms and contract signing services in Light Blue 6, photographers have been streamlining a key part of running their business. Gone are the days of vast amounts of paper being shuffled back and forth; instead, it’s really simple for your customers to complete their booking online. But sometimes, you need that […]

24/11/2015

Faster and more intuitive, with some great new features! Watch a short video or an hour-long webinar explaining more about the great new things in Light Blue 6… A fresh new look Light Blue 6 sees our biggest facelift for three years! The new design looks much more at home in the latest versions of […]

01/04/2015

We launched our online contract signing service a few days ago, and we’ve been bowled over by the response. However, our beta testers have been telling us they’ve sometimes mistakenly typed ‘contract signing’ as ‘contract singing’, then hitting ‘send’ without spell-checking. We don’t like it when people lose face like that, so we’ve teamed up […]

26/03/2015

Speed up the booking process and make it really easy for your customers to confirm their shoots with this great new addition to our online services! Admin without the hassle When a client decides to book a shoot, you want to make sure that confirming their booking is as simple as possible. It needs to […]

17/12/2014

In other words… There’ll be no formal Light Blue tech support between 12 noon on Wednesday 24 December and 9am on Monday 5 January. We’ll check our inbox on 29, 30 and 31 December and 2 January, though, in case there’s anything urgent. Please vote for us! We’re in the running for ‘Best Software’ and […]