Overview
VisualLightBox is a free tool that helps you easily generate picture photo album, web gallery website with a nice Lightbox-style overlay effect, in a few clicks without writing a single line of code.
Just drag&drop your photos to VisualLightBox program window, press "Publish" and your own website image album with beautiful LightBox effects will open in the browser instantly!
No javascript, css, image editing, html coding, just a click to get your best web site 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 lightbox gallery created with VisualLightbox wizard 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 gallery.a album to your web siteThe example above is an in-page usage demo of Lightbox. The lightbox gallery created with VisualLightbox application is placed inside the page layout. You can also check the full-page demo website gallery. This example takes whole browser area to show the lightbox gallery.
How to Use
Adding folders with images or images to css web site album.
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 software window. The image is copied to your pictures folder and automatically added to your website gallery.
If you have included the images that you do not wish to be in the website gallery, you can easily remove them. Select all images that you wish to remove from photo 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 web photo gallery wizard 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 editor. 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 website image album, 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 exported 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 wizard, you'll be asked if you want to save your project. The project consists of the pictures you choose to put on your css web site album 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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VisualLightBox is free for non-commercial use.
A small fee is required for business use. VisualLightBox Business Edition additionally provides an option to remove the VisualLightBox. Com credit bar as well as a feature to put your own logo to images. After you finish the payment via the secure form, you will receive a license key instantly by e-mail that turns the VisualLightBox Free Edition into a Business one. You can select the most appropriate payment method: PayPal, check, bank transfer, credit card etc. Also you can get Business Edition for free if you help with translating Visual LightBox into your native language, please contact us at for more info.
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Support
For general help, troubleshooting and feature requests contact Customer Support at Make sure to include details on your operating system, browser, VisualLightbox version and a link (or relevant code).photo gallery builder
Feedback
* 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.
* Let me start just congratulating you, good job, really. I am trying out the free version before I buy it. It works great. * 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!!
* First of all, I love you Visuallightbox. I think it's beautiful! I purchased the lightbox �business edition� yesterday, and I�m very happy how easy it is to use. Found this to be one of the fastest ways to get a gallery on the web. Thanks.
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