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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

01/04/2014

Here at Light Blue Software, we’re intimately connected to the world of photography. We live and breathe it, and draw inspiration from both our customers and the trends we see in the wider photographic world. And who can have failed to notice the biggest thing to hit both photography and cameras in the last few […]