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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]