14/03/2024

Our Android app has been available to all of our subscribers since January, and now it’s no longer in the prerelease section of the Google Play Store: you can find it by searching for us on the Play Store, or by clicking this link 🎉 Our prerelease testers have been sending us great feedback about […]

19/02/2024

We launched the first version of Light Blue 15 years ago this month and WOW, what a 15 years it’s been. Light Blue’s founder, Tom, reflects on how far we’ve come since 2009. It’s an understatement to say that Light Blue has been so much more successful than we ever imagined, used by thousands of […]

19/02/2024

We’ve just released a minor update for our iOS app, which should start to appear in the App Store shortly. This update includes the following new features and bug fixes:

30/01/2024

Gmail and Yahoo have recently announced changes to how they will deal with incoming emails. These changes will come into effect in 2024. The short version of this post is that you don’t need to worry about this if you’re sending emails from Light Blue via our email servers. If you’re sending emails via a […]

17/01/2024

We’re delighted to announce that our Android app has been approved for the Google Play Store 🎉 The feedback from our prerelease testers has been great so, now that it’s available via the Play Store, we’re inviting everyone who’s said they want to start using our Android app as soon as possible to try it […]

10/01/2024

Light Blue is at the heart of your business, and using our Zapier integration allows you to use it for all of your day-to-day work while taking advantage of industry-leading apps and services in a totally automated fashion. Zapier is a service that connects the various apps that you use and automates those connections for […]

09/01/2024

We’ve just released Light Blue 2023.1.3, which is a minor update that adds new features and fixes bugs reported since we launched Light Blue 2023.1. It includes the following changes:

21/12/2023

We’re still here to help over the festive season, but we’re also going to be taking a bit of a break so won’t be answering emails quite as quickly as normal between Christmas and New Year: Wishing you all the best, Tom & the Light Blue team

20/12/2023

The Light Blue Android app is very nearly ready for release! We’ve been prerelease testing the app with a small number of early testers and their feedback has been really positive. Now that we’ve had a chance to deal with all of the issues discovered by these first testers, we’ve expanded our prerelease testing to […]

25/09/2023

We’ve just released Light Blue 2023.1.2, which is a minor update that adds new features and fixes bugs reported since we launched Light Blue 2023.1. It includes the following changes:

13/09/2023

Over the next few weeks, Apple are going to be releasing major upgrades to macOS and iOS. iOS 17 is going to be released on 18 September. macOS 14 Sonoma is being released on 26 September. We’ve been testing the current versions of our macOS and iOS apps on the prerelease versions of macOS 14 […]

24/04/2023

We’ve just released Light Blue 2023.1.1, which is a minor update that adds new features and fixes bugs reported since we launched Light Blue 2023.1. It includes the following changes:

06/03/2023

Light Blue 2023.1 is a major update that adds new features that makes it easier to work with your clients and get paid by them.

30/01/2023

Light Blue’s online scheduling feature is very popular with our subscribers because it they make it really easy for your clients to book shoots or meetings with you without needing to send messages back and forth to find the perfect time. We’ve just added a new feature to our scheduling calendars, and more are coming […]

16/12/2022

We’re still here to help over the festive season, but we’re also going to be taking a bit of a break so won’t be answering emails quite as quickly as normal between Christmas and New Year: Wishing you all the best, Tom & the Light Blue team

12/12/2022

We hope that 2022 has been a successful year for you. It’s been another rollercoaster, with emerging from the pandemic being a real highlight but plenty of other challenges along the way. We always like to take stock at the end of the year and reflect on the things that we’re particularly proud of and […]

14/11/2022

Light Blue 2022.2 is a major update that expands the range of third-party apps that you can use with Light Blue. Zapier Zapier is a service that saves you time by connecting the apps and services that you use and automating them for you. Light Blue offers a set of triggers and actions that allow […]

14/11/2022

Changes in Light Blue 2022.2.2:

24/10/2022

Light Blue 2022.2 is a major update that expands the range of third-party apps that you can use with Light Blue. New and updated integrations Please note that the minimum OS version required for Light Blue 2022.2 is now macOS 10.14 (Mojave) or Windows 8.1.

17/10/2022

Apple is currently beta testing their next big macOS update, macOS Ventura, and is releasing it on Monday. Ventura is a big update to macOS, and the reports we’ve had from some of our subscribers is that the public betas have caused some problems for them, so you might want to wait a few months […]

02/07/2022

Google are making a change to their APIs that requires some Light Blue users to reauthorise their access to Google Calendar. Anyone who used a version of Light Blue older than Light Blue 8.2.7 (which came out in February 2020) to set up Google Calendar publishing needs to reauthorise it before October 2022. From 3 October […]

20/06/2022

We’ve just released Light Blue 2022.1.2, which is a minor update that adds new features and fixes bugs reported since we launched Light Blue 2022.1. It includes the following changes: You can now import GotPhoto orders into Light Blue as sales, using the GotPhoto orders export CSV format. You’ll find the “Import GotPhoto Orders CSV” […]

19/04/2022

We’ve just released Light Blue 2022.1.1, which is a minor update that adds new features and fixes bugs reported since we launched Light Blue 2022.1. It includes the following changes:

21/03/2022

We’re delighted to have won the “Best Professional Software” award at The Societies of Photographers convention! These trade awards are some of the most prestigious in the photography industry and voted for by thousands of professional photographers. In this category, Light Blue was up against giants of the photography industry such as Adobe’s Lightroom and […]