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01/08/2018

Leicestershire family portrait photographer Christina Lauder is originally from Toronto, Canada. She moved to the UK 20 years ago for a job transfer in software consulting & eventually found herself starting a new career as a portrait photographer, something she’d wanted to do since she was a child. I’ve had the chance to try pretty much […]

26/07/2018

We’ve released Light Blue 7.1.3, which is another free update to everyone who subscribes to our online services or has bought Light Blue 7. When you’re publishing a contract or form but not sending an email to your client, you can now open the contract or form in your browser as well as copying its […]

25/07/2018

This update brings more of the desktop version of Light Blue’s features over to iOS, including lots of the features that we added in Light Blue 7: • Light Blue’s optional password protection feature now works on iOS, and if you have a device that supports Face ID or Touch ID you can use that […]

11/07/2018

Photographers all over the world are using Light Blue’s powerful forms to streamline their workflows, using them to feed new enquiries straight from their website into Light Blue. They’re really easy to set up and embed in your website, and you can also our forms as part of your online booking process. Light Blue also […]

05/07/2018

The Association of Photographers has always been an excellent source of information, advice, and support for professional photographers. I remember how Helen and I devoured their excellent Beyond The Lens when we started our photography businesses, and the AOP have continued to be at the forefront of representing photographers on a variety of issues. We’ve […]

30/05/2018

Light Blue allows you to send text messages to your clients, which is great for appointment reminders and marketing. There are two different ways of sending text messages from Light Blue: Via our dedicated number service, which is available in most countries. Or, if you’re based in the UK, Ireland, or Australia, you can send […]

29/05/2018

We’ve released Light Blue 7.1.2, which is another free update to everyone who subscribes to our online services or has bought Light Blue 7. Like all of our minor updates, Light Blue 7.1.2 includes a variety of feature updates and bug fixes. We’ve also added a bigger feature that will help photographers who are keen […]

24/05/2018

Light Blue’s online contract signing service is one of the most popular features of our online services. It’s really easy to publish contracts for your clients to sign quickly. You need to set up at least one contract template which contains your terms and conditions in order to send contracts to your clients. We don’t […]

24/05/2018

One of the tools that we added in Light Blue 7.1 is a housekeeping command that makes it easier to find old records that you might want to delete from Light Blue. For example, if the introduction of the GDPR means that you no longer want to keep any personal information about your clients any […]

22/05/2018

New Mailing List Opt-In Form With Light Blue 7.1.2, you can now send your clients to a special form that allows them to opt in to your mailing list. Each of your contact records has a special URL that identifies them, and you can get that URL in two different ways: If you only want […]

02/05/2018

You’ve almost certainly heard about the EU’s new data protection and privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR requires businesses to follow strict guidelines when they’re using personal data. It comes into effect on 25 May, and affects all businesses in the EU. It also applies to businesses in other countries outside the EU […]

02/05/2018

We take the security of your personal data, and your clients’ personal data, seriously. That’s why we’ve been working hard to prepare this document for you to help you prepare for upcoming changes in privacy law, when the GDPR comes into force on 25 May. If you’re already complying with the current data protection laws […]

02/05/2018

The introduction of GDPR is a good opportunity to make sure that you’re following best practices when it comes to securing the data that you use to run your business. Light Blue Software takes extensive precautions to secure every aspect of the online services that we offer, but because Light Blue stores a copy of […]

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 […]

14/02/2018

Grahame Smith LMPA is an award winning weddings, portrait, and dog photographer, based in Dunbar, Scotland. After a lifelong interest in photography, and a short lived career as a trainee aircraft technician in the RAF, Grahame (assisted by his wife Allison) embarked upon the journey into professional photography in the early 1990s. And now (with […]

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 […]

08/01/2018

We love meeting photographers and hearing how they’re using Light Blue to grow and streamline their photography businesses, and we’re going to be doing just that at The Societies’ 2018 convention and trade show, which runs from Friday 12 January to Sunday 14 January. If you’d like to find out more about how Light Blue can help […]

05/01/2018

The Societies of Wedding & Portrait Photographers convention is one of the highlights of our calendar. We’re looking forward to talking to photographers during the extensive trade show on the Friday, Saturday & Sunday. There’s a wealth of talks and masterclasses being held during the convention, and we’ve listed a selection that we think are […]

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. […]