Manage your lightboxes from the menu

 

ImageForum allows you to save your lightboxes of images by creating as many lightboxes as you want. By default there is at least one selection, called "Default".

 

The Lightbox menu allows you to:

 

You can also add documents to a lightbox or create a selection from:

 

Lightboxes can also be managed from the bottom part of your screen, in the page footer, when you are in a result page.

Also see: Manage your selections in the page footer

 

Create a lightbox

  1. In the Lightbox menu, choose the "My lightboxes" option.

=> The lightbox list is displayed.

The default lightbox cannot be deleted.

 

  1. Click on the "Add a new lightbox" button at the bottom of the screen.

  2. Enter a name for your lightbox.

  3. Confirm your creation.

=> You return to the lightbox list.

The lightboxes list is displayed in alphabetic order.

 

 

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Rename a lightbox

  1. In the Lightbox menu, choose the "My lightboxes" option.

=> The lightbox list is displayed.

  1. Click on on the line relating to your selection.

  2. Enter the new name.

  3. Confirm your entry.

 

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E-mail one or more lightboxes

  1. In the Lightbox menu, click on the "Send lightboxes by e-mail" option.

=> The lightbox list is displayed:

 

  1. Select the lightbox to be e-mailed, then click on the button

=> Your e-mail system is opened and an e-mail is created containing the download web address for your selection.

  1. Send the e-mail.

The recipient of the e-mail must be a registered user and must be authenticated in order to use the e-mailed link.

  1. The recipient clicks on the e-mailed link.

=> The ImageForum login page opens in his or her browser.

  1. Once logged in, the e-mailed selections are displayed in a result page. The e-mail recipient can then place the selected documents in a selection belonging to him or her, consult, download or delete documents.

 

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Remove documents from a lightbox

  1. In the Lightbox menu, choose the selection to edit.

=> The selection page is displayed.

  1. Check the thumbnails of the documents to be deleted from the selection.

  2. Click on .

=> The documents selected are deleted from the lightbox.

 

 

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Delete a lightbox

  1. In the Lightbox menu, choose the "My lightboxes" option.

=> The lightbox list is displayed.

  1. Click on on the line relating to your selection.

  2. A message is displayed asking you to confirm this deletion.

  3. Click on the "Confirm" button.

 

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Download documents from a lightbox

You can download documents:

 

 

=> The selection page is displayed.

    1. Click on at the top of the list to download all of the documents. You can also download only some of the documents by checking the corresponding thumbnails.

    2. A window is displayed for you to save a compressed file containing your images.

=> to save the compressed file on your computer, press the Save button,

=> to save the documents on your computer, use drag & drop.

 

In order to reduce the number of operations, you are recommended to open the download file and then use drag & drop your documents will be in the desired directory in a format ready for use.