Blacklight

What is Blacklight?

Backlight is a unique website creation and photo publishing platform for photographers, leveraging Lightroom Publishing Services to make it easier to manage your online portfolio.

With Backlight, get your website and photo albums up and running in a matter of minutes. Then use the built-in designer to customize the content and appearance of your site.

The backlight is in active development and constantly improving. With Backlight, take advantage of new features including direct image uploads, customer management and gallery access features, support for multiple language sites, and more.

Flexible

There are no themes. Backlight's integrated designer allows you to customize virtually everything, including site and gallery colors, layout, behavior, and features. Add your logo, write a copy, and upload images. Express yourself and make your website your face.

Responsive

Designed for desktop, tablet and mobile devices in equal measure. Your content is reflowed and your images go everywhere.

Lightroom-to-Website Publication

Your photo lives in Lightroom with Backlight, create and manage your albums from your catalog, using Lightroom Publishing Services. Create new albums, organize them into sets, easily add or remove images, modify captions, change gallery descriptions, and more.

Search Engine Optimized

Backlight adhers to white hat SEO practices to maximize search engine performance, and the upgrade is done as needed to keep up with evolving SEO standards.

No coding required

Create a complete site without having to write a line of code. Format text using simple Markdown syntax and use the various built-in features to create a robust website to display your photograph in the best possible way.

Supported Encoding

Use backlight's advanced customization and extensibility features, including an integrated grid structure, Font Awesome icon support, PHPlugins extensibility API, and more. The backlight has many built-in features for designers at all levels.

Web Standards

Prepared with the best ingredients, the Backlight recipe requires standards-compliant HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript to work on all devices, on all modern browsers, now and always. No Flash and no becoming obsolete.

System Requirements

• Linux OS
• Apache Server
• PHP 5.4 or newer
• SQLite and PDO modules enabled
• On the desktop, Backlight runs on current versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, and Safari, and internet explorer 10 and 11.
• On mobile, current versions of Android Browser, Chrome for Android, and Safari for iOS are supported.