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Hi all,

I've been working with the Lightbox template on the Album module and recently learned that it is not resizing my large photos to fit the screen, but instead forcing me to scroll down to view it. The greybox template does this as well. The default template does properly squeeze the photo to fit the page, but I would much rather use Lightbox or at least greybox.

Is this an option? I've searched the forums, but can't find the answer. Just to clarify, the templates are resizing the content boxes to fit the pictures, but not resizing the pictures to fit the screen; I'd like to squeeze the larger photos to fit the screen. This is to accomodate a variety of screen resolutions, rather than manually resizing the image.

Thanks,
Jay

Hi All,

After corresponding with ElijahLefgren regarding the issue, I've concluded that Lightbox is unable to resize images. However, I discovered another option which is much more versatile and the "next-generation" of lightbox, called Lytebox. Perhaps some of you have already dabbled in it, as it's already to version 3.2. It's a superb album and even has a slideshow, with all kinds of parameters to adjust. I was able to take the pre-existing lightbox template that is in the current Album release (0.9.2) and adapt it to Lytebox and Lyteshow (the slideshow). I will post more later about how it's adapted and used (I've got to get some shut-eye now  )

I will also upload these new templates to the development page so that they can be included in the next release of the Album module, perhaps to come this weekend.

By the way, if some of you don't care for the animated transitions between photos in lightbox or greybox, lytebox allows you to tun that feature off; you can also easily adjust the speed of transitions, slideshow times, opacity and color of backgrounds, and more.
You can find more info at: http://www.dolem.com/lytebox/
Here's my photo album test page: http://tinyurl.com/2to5ec

Jay

Did you ever convert this template or do you have instructions for doing so?  I think this would be very helpful!

see here: http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/tracker/in ... 7&atid=727

Oh!  Thanks so much - didn't know where to look...