The fine folks over at Fotomoto.com have rolled out a new version of their widget, redesigned for mobile. It’s a massive improvement, and immediately available in Backlight 2. To use, you’ll need to enable the v2 widget in your Fotomoto settings. See Fotomoto’s blog post, New Shopping Cart Widget Now Available, for how to accomplish […]
Happy new year, folks! We’re making some changes to how we’re running our communications going forward, and updating our guidelines for interaction here on the site and on our social media platforms. Here’s the full rundown on how best to reach us, and how best to hear from us. The Blog When there’s news, there […]
Over time, the threads had kept me bound to Lightroom over the years had frayed, snapped or been severed. One of the last was the VSCO Film presets, professional-grade simulations of olden film stocks. These were discontinued in early 2019, though, alongside VSCO’s pivot away from the professional photo market and toward teenage “VSCO girls”. […]
Backlight 2.0.9 is now available! In this update, we introduce lazy-loading of thumbnails in photo albums, and numerous other improvements. Lazy-loading improves page speed by loading only those image thumbnails currently visible in the browser, and the next images just out of view. As the page is scrolled, upcoming images are loaded on demand. Lazy-loading […]
Announced in our most recent newsletter, Backlight 2.0.7 allows photo reordering within Backlight’s admin. This change further empowers users to manage their images galleries without Lightroom, from directly within Backlight’s own publisher. Here’s a quick video demonstration of the new feature in action: Updating to 2.0.7 from earlier versions of Backlight 2 is easy! How-to: […]