Spitfire Photo Pro - Lightbox How-To

Sharing lightboxs allows you and your clients to view the same set images at the same time. This allows clients to quickly decide which images to use. No more mailing CDs around and dealing with lost CDs. Multiple lightbox support, allows a user to have multiple favorites and to share with different people.

Set an active lightbox

An active lightbox will be the lightbox that actions are performed on, such as 'Add to Lightbox', 'Empty Lightbox' and 'Download Lightbox'.

Click 'Lightbox' from the navigation in gallery view.
From the lightbox pull-down menu select a lightbox to activate.

Add images to a lightbox

Set active lightbox (see above).
From an image detail view page click 'Add to Lightbox'.
From album view or search results click empty lightbox check box:

Lightbox

Remove images from a lightbox

Set active lightbox (see above).
From an image detail view click 'Remove from Lightbox'.
From the album view, search results or the lightbox click the checked lightbox check box under an image:

Lightbox

Create a new lightbox

If you are logged in click 'Lightbox' from the navigation in gallery view.
Click 'Create Lightbox' from the lightbox page.
Enter a lightbox name and description in the form then click save.

Change name or description of a lightbox

If you are logged in set active lightbox (see above).
From the lightbox page click 'Edit Lightbox'.
Edit lightbox name or description in the form then click save.

Delete a lightbox

If you are logged in set active lightbox (see above).
Note you cannot delete your "Default" lightbox.
From the lightbox page click 'Delete Lightbox'
When prompted click "yes".

How to empty a lightbox

Set active lightbox (see above).
From the lightbox page click 'Empty Lightbox'.

Email a lightbox

Set active lightbox (see above).
From the lightbox page click 'Email'.
Fill in the email a lightbox form with recipients email address and a short message.
Click 'Email' to send your lightbox.

Download all the hi-res or image proofs in a lightbox

Set active lightbox (see above).
From the lightbox page click 'Download Lightbox'.
All images in the active lightbox will be zipped into one convenient file.
When the File Download pops up click 'save' too save the zip file to a location on your hard drive.
Use a popular unzip program like WinZip (Windows) or StuffIt (Mac) to unzip the saved zip file.

View a lightbox in the slide show

Set active lightbox (see above).
From the lightbox page click 'Slide Show'.