How to Make a Lightbox Gallery
Lightbox is a JavaScript application that is used to display large images. It has become a popular application for online photo galleries because of its simple yet elegant style and ease of implementation. In a photo gallery with Lightbox technology, users can click on an image to magnify it in a Lightbox window, which then resizes itself based on the size of the image without leaving the current page. Users can make their own lightbox galleries with free software called VisualLightBox.
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Instructions
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Download and install VisualLightBox (see References). Once installation has completed, launch the program.
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Click "Images" from the top menu and the select "Add images." Click on the green circle with a plus sign just under the top menu to add images. Locate the folder with the images you want to add and select your image files. The image will be copied to your website gallery. If you added photos that you don't want to appear in your gallery, click on them--hold down "CTRL" key to select multiple photos--and click "Images" from the top menu and then "Delete."
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Add captions to your photos. Click on an image in your gallery. You will be presented with a "Caption" box for the image where you can enter text (up to 512 characters) about the image.
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Edit the photos. Right-click on the photo you want to edit and click "Edit images." You can fix red-eye, crop your photo and adjust colors.
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Edit the properties of your gallery. Click "Gallery" from the top menu and select "Properties." From here, edit and change the name of your album and the quality and size of your photos.
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Save your photo gallery as a project file. If you want to make changes to your photo gallery in the future, save it as a project file. Click on "File" and "Save As" and choose a file name and location for your project.
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Publish your photo gallery. Click the "Publish gallery" link at the top of the application. Choose to "Publish to folder" or "Publish to FTP server" if you want to publish the gallery to your website. Your photo gallery is now ready to view and share.
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