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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 […]

12/09/2016

It’s all very well recording your income, but unless you also have your expenditure in the same system then you can’t see how profitable your business is. The advantage of managing your photography business in Light Blue is that everything linked together. It allows you to quickly & easily run reports on the financial state […]

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, […]

16/08/2016

Throughout this short series of articles, we’ve been covering how to make the most out of the information that you’ve already entered into Light Blue. There’s a few different ways of finding useful information that’s already in Light Blue, both with Quick Queries and creating your own more specific searches using the Query Dialog. Once you’ve found the data you’re looking […]

15/08/2016

In this short series of articles, we’ve been covering how to make the most out of the information that you’ve already entered into Light Blue. We’ve previously looked at different ways of finding useful information that’s already in Light Blue, both with Quick Queries and creating your own more specific searches using the Query Dialog. That data […]

09/08/2016

This is the second instalment of a short series of articles that will be covering how to make the most out of the information that you’ve already entered into Light Blue. That data can tell you a lot about how your business is doing, and help you to take a step back and look at the bigger picture. The […]

09/08/2016

One of the great advantages of using Light Blue is that all of the information that you need is in one place. That data can tell you a lot about how your business is doing, and help you to take a step back and look at the bigger picture. That’s where Light Blue’s reporting features are […]

01/08/2016

Price lists are one of the many time-saving features built into Light Blue, allowing you to create a list of predefined products & services that can be used to quickly and accurately enter a quote or sale. They save lots of repetitive typing, or copying and pasting from old invoices. You can find out how […]

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 […]

10/03/2014

Light Blue 5 brings a host of new features to our award-winning business management software for photographers, making your admin easier and helping you run a busy and successful photography business. To find out what’s new in Light Blue 5, read on! Contact grouping This makes it really easy to deal with groups of people […]

01/04/2013

Here in the secret Light Blue bunker, we’re always working to make running your photography business even easier. Today, 1 April 2013, we’re announcing a revolutionary piece of kit which allows you to work with Light Blue completely hands free. Check out our video above for more on how ThinkSync can help you revolutionise your […]