Tutorials
We've worked hard to design Light Blue to be intuitive and easy to use. However, it's a powerful bit of software, and we appreciate that sometimes you might want us to show you the way. To help with this, we've recorded a series of video tutorials. You can view them all below or download them all as a zip file (230MB!) to view at your leisure.
Introductions for new users
This series of three video tutorials is design to get new users up and running quickly.
Video tutorials on specific topics
Downloading and installing
- Mac: Installing Light Blue for the very first time
- Mac: Updating Light Blue from v1, v2 or v3
- Mac: Connecting to data using our online services
- Windows: Installing Light Blue for the very first time
- Windows: Updating Light Blue from v1, v2 or v3
- Windows: Connecting to data using our online services
Enquiries and shoots
- Adding a new Shoot
- Confirming or cancelling a Shoot
- Adding workflows
- The Shoot schedule and requests
- Importing pictures into Light Blue
- Making a web gallery
- Linking records together
- All about shoot types
Contacts
Finances
- Making a new Quote
- Discounts on Quotes
- Adding a booking fee (retainer) to a Quote
- Making a sale from a Quote
- Marking Quotes as accepted or rejected
- Emailing a Quote as a PDF
- Creating a new Sale
- Discounts on Sales
- Adding workflows to products
- Invoicing a Sale
- Emailing an invoice as a PDF
- Adding a payment to a Sale
- Issuing a credit note
- Issuing a refund
- Adding branding to the built-in invoice templates
- All about taxes
- Setting up price lists
- Choosing RTF documents as invoice templates
- Creating a new Purchase
- Marking a Purchase as paid
- Recording a refund on a purchase
- Capital and Inventory items on Purchases
- Handling gift vouchers
- Marking cheques and cash as paid in (deposited)
Analysing your data
Linking with other programs
- Linking with the Mac's calendar application
- Linking with the Mac's reminders application
- Linking with the Mac's contacts application
- Importing emails from Mail on a Mac
- Linking with Google Calendar
Other useful things
- The Task Manager
- The built-in calendar
- Recording mileage
- Exporting records
- All about document templates
- All about email templates
- All about Preferences
- Setting defaults
- Resources: staff, rooms and equipment
Our online services & iOS versions
An introduction to v4
Back in November 2012 we went to the Apple Store in London and gave a demo to a packed auditorium. We recorded the same demo a few days later for all to see.
More tutorials
Is there a tutorial you'd like to see? Drop us a note and we'll have a look at making one.
Looking for tutorials for the old version? See the v3 tutorials.