Blog

22/05/2018

New Mailing List Opt-In Form With Light Blue 7.1.2, you can now send your clients to a special form that allows them to opt in to your mailing list. Each of your contact records has a special URL that identifies them, and you can get that URL in two different ways: If you only want […]

02/05/2018

You’ve almost certainly heard about the EU’s new data protection and privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR requires businesses to follow strict guidelines when they’re using personal data. It comes into effect on 25 May, and affects all businesses in the EU. It also applies to businesses in other countries outside the EU […]

02/05/2018

We take the security of your personal data, and your clients’ personal data, seriously. That’s why we’ve been working hard to prepare this document for you to help you prepare for upcoming changes in privacy law, when the GDPR comes into force on 25 May. If you’re already complying with the current data protection laws […]

02/05/2018

The introduction of GDPR is a good opportunity to make sure that you’re following best practices when it comes to securing the data that you use to run your business. Light Blue Software takes extensive precautions to secure every aspect of the online services that we offer, but because Light Blue stores a copy of […]

02/05/2018

Light Blue 7.1 adds new features to Light Blue 7, and is a free update for everyone who’s subscribed to our online services or is already using Light Blue 7. GDPR-related changes GDPR is an update to the data protection laws throughout the EU. Light Blue Software already complies with GDPR, and we’re adding some […]

27/03/2018

We’re going to be carrying out some essential maintenance to our servers over the Easter weekend, and this will cause a short amount of downtime for our online services on the morning of Sunday 1 April (and, no, this isn’t an April Fool). Because Light Blue is desktop software that you can use offline, most […]

22/03/2018

We’ve just released Light Blue 7.0.4, which is a free minor update for everyone who’s using Light Blue 7. It includes the following changes: Added a ‘Remove Resources From Shoots’ command to the Housekeeping menu. Updated some of our French translations. The ‘Mark Found Shoots As Completed’ command in the Housekeeping menu can now be […]

05/03/2018

The Photography Show at the Birmingham NEC is the UK’s biggest photography trade show, and we’ll be there on stand A68 from Saturday 17 March through to Tuesday 20 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 […]

21/02/2018

Light Blue 7.0.3 is out now, and is another free minor update for everyone who’s using Light Blue 7. It includes the following changes: Added a ‘required’ option to form checkboxes. When checkboxes are included in forms, the email that you receive now says “yes” or “no” (or the localised version of that) instead of […]

14/02/2018

Grahame Smith LMPA is an award winning weddings, portrait, and dog photographer, based in Dunbar, Scotland. After a lifelong interest in photography, and a short lived career as a trainee aircraft technician in the RAF, Grahame (assisted by his wife Allison) embarked upon the journey into professional photography in the early 1990s. And now (with […]

05/02/2018

We’ve been continuing to improve Light Blue 7, and we’ve just released another minor update. Light Blue 7.0.2 includes the following changes, based on the feedback that you’ve been sending us: Fixed a problem on Windows where editing the content of an HTML editor, and then immediately clicking on another record, could update the wrong […]

10/01/2018

We released Light Blue 7.0.1 today, which is a minor update to Light Blue 7 that tweaks a few things based on your feedback since the launch: Added the shoot reference prefix field to the ‘Import Shoots and Contacts From CSV File’ dialog. Improved our French translation for “Production Order”. Fixed a problem where two […]

08/01/2018

We love meeting photographers and hearing how they’re using Light Blue to grow and streamline their photography businesses, and we’re going to be doing just that at The Societies’ 2018 convention and trade show, which runs from Friday 12 January to Sunday 14 January. If you’d like to find out more about how Light Blue can help […]

05/01/2018

The Societies of Wedding & Portrait Photographers convention is one of the highlights of our calendar. We’re looking forward to talking to photographers during the extensive trade show on the Friday, Saturday & Sunday. There’s a wealth of talks and masterclasses being held during the convention, and we’ve listed a selection that we think are […]

03/01/2018

Light Blue 7 is a major upgrade to our desktop app. With improved email and text messaging features, a brand new charts section, expanded options for online forms, and a whole host of other new features and enhancements, Light Blue 7 is focused on helping you to communicate with your clients and grow your business. […]

03/01/2018

Light Blue 7 is a major upgrade to our desktop app. With improved email and text messaging features, a brand new charts section, expanded options for online forms, and a whole host of other new features and enhancements, Light Blue 7 is focused on helping you to communicate with your clients and grow your business. […]

05/12/2017

As Christmas approaches, many photographers are turning their attention to contacting their customers in order to send their season’s greetings. You’ve been adding information to Light Blue throughout the year, and now’s a perfect time to get that information to go to work for you. Using Light Blue you can find the records of customers who […]

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 […]