Overview
VisualLightBox is a free application that helps you easily generate online photo albums, website albums with a nice Lightbox-style overlay effect, in a few clicks without writing a single line of code.
Just add your photos to VisualLightBox application window, press "Publish" and your own picture album web site with beautiful LightBox effects will open in the browser at once!
No javascript, html coding, css, image editing, just a click to get your cool web page album ready.
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- jQuery plugin or Prototype extension
- Floating and smooth cross-fade transition
- Slideshow with autostart option
- Windows & MAC version
- XHTML compliant
- Zoom effect with overlay shadow
- Rounded corners of overlay window
- Large images fit to browser window
- A lot of nice gallery themes
- Image rotating and hi-quality image scaling with anti-aliasing
- Automatic thumbnail creation
- Adding caption
- Built-in FTP
Example
Lightbox gallery sample
The following image set is generated by VisualLightbox. Click any picture to run Lightbox gallery.
The sample above is an in-page usage demo of Lightbox tool. The slideshow created with VisualLightbox software is placed inside the website page. You can also check the full-page demo web gallery. This example takes whole browser area to show the slideshow.dynamic photo galleryThe example above is an in-page usage demo of Lightbox gallery. The web gallery created with VisualLightbox wizard is placed inside the html page. You can also check the full-page demo slideshow. This example takes whole browser area to show the website gallery.
How to Use
Adding folders with images or images to web photo gallery.
From the Images menu, select Add images... 
Browse to the location of the folder you'd like to add and select the images. VisualLightBox will now include that folder. Or you can drag the images (folder) to the VisualLightBox program window. The image is copied to your pictures folder and automatically added to your web photo gallery.
If you have included the images that you do not wish to be in the best web site album, you can easily remove them. Select all images that you wish to remove from online gallery, and select Delete images. from the Images menu. You can pick and choose pictures by holding the CTRL while clicking the pictures you like.
You can also use your Vista Photo Gallery projects (. Vgal) in VisualLightBox.
Adding caption.
When you select an image you'll see the various info about it, such as:
- Path, Size - for each image, you will see the file name, full folder path; file size and date of last change.
- Caption - you can enter any comment or text about the image (up to 512 symbols) in the website photo gallery.
Editing capabilities.
In this website image album application you can easily rotate your pictures using "Rotate Left" and "Rotate Right" buttons.
Right click on the picture and select "Edit images." item to open the selected picture in your default graph program. You can adjust the color of pictures, as well as fix red-eye and crop out unwanted parts of an image.
Gallery properties.
Change the name of your web photo gallery, the size and quality of your pictures with Website Photo Gallery. From the Gallery menu, select Properties or use "Edit Gallery Properties" button on the toolbar.
On the first tab of the Gallery Properties window you can change the name of your website album and enable/disable the following properties: Slide Show, Auto play Slide Show, Zoom effect, Overlay Shadow.
On the second tab of the Gallery Properties window you can select the thumbnail you want to use, set the Thumbnails Resolution, Thumbnails Quality, Thumbnails Titles.
On the third tab of the Gallery Properties window you can select the templates, the size and quality of your pictures, set background color and change the watermark.
You can set up the various sizes for generated images.
Control the quality of output JPEG format image by defining output "Image quality" and "Thumbnail quality" parameters (0%�100%).
Save your photo gallery as project file.
When you exit VisualLightBox program, you'll be asked if you want to save your project. The project consists of the pictures you choose to put on your web photo gallery and all your settings. It's a good idea to save the project, because that will allow you to change the project in case you decide to do something different with future galleries. So click Yes, then enter a name for your project. To select the location of your project, just click the Browse folders button and choose a different location. Then click Save.
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Support
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Feedback
* I would like to say that VisualLightbox is a stunning lil program! Its almost too good to be true i'd say! I've been looking for tutorials to create a lightbox gallery, but just couldnt come right. Im so glad i found VisualLightbox!
* I find Visual LightBox (and lightbox2) a great tool and was about to proceed in its purchase.
* I have installed visual lightbox to trial. All good, loving it!! I want to get an business version of your great programm. I love it - soo easy to use!! * I just tried the application, It is wonderful idea. Like you said in the website "few clicks without writing a single line of code" because most of the people is not web designers".
* I am thrilled with what this tool can do for me thanks for all the hard work that must have gone into it.
FAQ
Q:How do I embed the lightbox image gallery into an existing page?
A:To install VisualLightBox gallery on your page you should: <head> <body>
1. Create your gallery in VisualLightBox and publish it on a local drive in any test folder.
2. Open index.html file from the saved folder in any text editor.
3. Copy code for the HEAD section and paste it inside the HEAD section of you own webpage, for example:
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<!-- Start VisualLightBox.com HEAD section -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="engine/css/vlightbox.css" type="text/css" />
<style>#vlightbox a#vlb{display:none}</style>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="engine/css/visuallightbox.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<script src="engine/js/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="engine/js/jquery.tools.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="engine/js/visuallightbox.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<!-- End VisualLightBox.com HEAD section -->
...
</head>
...
<!-- Start VisualLightBox.com BODY section -->
<div id="vlightbox">
<a rel="lightbox_vlb" href="data/images/dscn6831.jpg" title="DSCN6831"><img src="data/thumbnails/dscn6831.png"><span></span></a>
<a rel="lightbox_vlb" href="data/images/dscn6823.jpg" title="DSCN6823"><img src="data/thumbnails/dscn6823.png"><span></span></a>
<a rel="lightbox_vlb" href="data/images/dscn6819.jpg" title="DSCN6819"><img src="data/thumbnails/dscn6819.png"><span></span></a>
<a id="vlb" href="http://visuallightbox.com">Photo Gallery For Web by VisualLightBox.com v2.1</a>
</div>
<!-- End VisualLightBox.com BODY section -->
...
</body>
You can find the example on our website:
http://www.visuallightbox.com/#example