Thanks to effrit patch you can use very light syntax too

{slimbox images/big/, images/small/}
Or
{slimbox single images/big/, images/small/}

Nice plugin, simple and up to the point.

Got pretty much the same commets as everyone else, and as someone pointed out it's just to add a
.slimbox img { padding: 5px; }
to any css file and the spacing is ok.

I found one bug, the plugin tries to render one to many pictures leaving a blank

Now this would have been nice if combined with Simple Image Gallery.

Simple Image Gallery: Nice CSS, creates thumbnails automatically, unfortunately thumbnails can't be centered and can't add captions

Slimbox Image Gallery - Nice that you can add captions, would have been nicer if you could add titles too. CSS needs some work.

And somewhere I saw a plugin that adds a Simple Image Gallery button to your editor. Imagine an upload button to go with that!! Now we're talking!!!

A challenge?

Good point: it works easily
Bad point: no alt= tag, so won't validate
Thumbnail spacing can be changed by amending a .css file. Adding the line
.slimbox img { padding: 5px; }
worked for me.
If, like me, you don't work on Joomla often, you can find the .css file by following extensions>template manager
then selecting the appropriate template and clicking "edit".
Thank you for contributing this Amy.

This plugin does its job quite well. Some more features (e.g auto thumbnail creation) and options in the back-end to modify the appearance in the front-end would have been welcomed. However, the code is not too complex and a few tweaks in the core and css files can be made to achieve the desired results.

On the subject of tweaks, the writer of this review http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/photos-&-images/photo-gallery/4135/details#rev-38209 has made some improvements to the plugin which I have tested and found to be quite impressive. These include:

1. Improved syntax rendition - reduces the cluttering when including multiple images resulting in text which is much more readable

2. Easily align thumbnails left, centre or right in the article text

3. Output all of the images in a directory

4. Automatic insertion of spaces between thumbnails

The user can be contacted via effrit@mail.ru. He responds quickly to queries regarding his modifications and is extremely friendly :).

Thanks to both Amy and Effrit :)

For all of you who need space between images without plugin recoding... Learn CSS Styling! each image is given a class id "slimbox." Just create a CSS class style named "slimbox" and do whatever the heck you want with it!!! So easy!!! Great Job Amy. I had issues using Lighbox with Internet Explorer 7 and after abandoning the actual script and going to the plugin method through Joomla, it worked great without any problems and cross-browser issues.

And for the rest of you ... learn CSS!

I love the way this plugin displays images. I usually place the code for the plugin inside a div using the html editor in order to center or float left/right.

I have a simple down side. The page were this plugin is implemented will not validate XHTML strict. I am not sure this is entirely the plugin's fault though.

It(plugin or Joomla) automatically adds the border tag to the images and leaves off the alt tag which cause the page to have errors validating for XHTML strict. If anyone has a work around, I am open to listening.

Very nice and easy to insert pictures with the slimbox effect into joomla articles.

Hint for gettintg spaces between images:
edit slimbox.php, line 123

$withthis .= '';

After the you can put your amount of spaces( ) you like.

After that line you can insert the follwing for a choosen amount of pictures per line:

if ( (($j+1)%NUMBER OF PICURES PER LINE) == 0){
$withthis .= '';
}

same complaints as others - can't add spaces in between thumbnails, can't center thumbnails.

Usually when looking for gallery extensions, I'm looking for something that a technically impaired person would easily understand. 1. I'm not going to ask a client to make his/her own thumbnails according the dimensions of the design that I made for them and 2. I'm not going to ask them to insert the code into their content...anything that resembles code absolutely terrifies them.

That is to say, the thumbnail creation should be automatic and this should at least be a component. All and all, I love the simplicity of the slimbox gallery and I'd use it on my own for a very limited amount of images but in the end, the cross-referencing with the media gallery gets fatiguing and again, this is not for the technically impaired.

very easy and useful plug in.
but thumbnails stick together.
I want to know how to add margin by coding.

Great plugin. The only problem I have is when adding very wide pictures, around 5000 pixels wide. The pictures get cut off about half way. The horizontal slider bar works fine, but still only half the picture is displayed. Don't know why. Other than having to use thinner pictures, it's a great plugin.

hello, world! :) (i'ts my first message on joomla.org)

Thanks for AmyStephen - prugin works fine.
But i need some additions futures, so i insert small additions in code.
At first, i don't like strict sintax of plugin.
It's no pleasure write "{slimbox images/img_1.jpg,images/timg_1.jpg,Things I like; images/img_2.jpg, images/timg_2.jpg, Why does this happen to me?; images/img_3.jpg,images/timg_3.jpg, when will it end?; images/img_4.jpg,images/timg_4.jpg}"

Small fix in code, and you have nice string like this:

{slimbox
images/img_1.jpg,images/timg_1.jpg,Things I like;
images/img_2.jpg, images/timg_2.jpg, Why does this happen to me?;

images/img_3.jpg,images/timg_3.jpg, when will it end?;
images/img_4.jpg,images/timg_4.jpg
}

so, its possible insert 20 or more images in page without breacking your eyes :)

also, i add 1 parametr. witch one now is possible to align images in text (float) and create view like centered gallery, with nice space between images.

i will wrote autor and send him my changes, may be hi include this additions in next release.

or, write me on effrit@mail.ru - i send you my variatin of plugin.

sorry for me English :)

Thank you so much for such a straight forward, installation and application.

I have literally spent my entire day trying to get alternative 'lightbox' apps working... installing Javascripts, editing my templates, installing mootools.... etc etc. I have spent many hours just banging my head.

Slimbox has brought happiness once again into my life.

For those newbies like me

1) Install Slimbox Plugin via Extension Installer
2) Click 'Plugin Manager' via Extension Menu
3) Find Slimbox - ensure it is enabled.
4) In your article where you want the image to take effect, simply type the following code

{slimbox highres.jpg, thumb.jpg, MyDescription}

or

{slimbox folder/highres.jpg, folder/imagethumb.jpg, MyDescription}


Thank you!!!

This plugin is merely the best I've tried to show in a cool fashion way one or several pics. It's easy to set up and use. From my POV having to write down the list of pics is not a big hassle since I only use it to display nothing more but 3 pics in a row.

Nevertheless, I have two issues to complain about:
- In Joomla1.5 I can't have the grayed background, I can't have a clue why not.
- Thumbnails pics of the gallery can't be centered in the page, even if I specify a or whatever in the article.

First of all let me tell you, that I tried Simple Image Gallery Plugin which work in similar way, but use more automated approach. Since I use other plugins that use motool, I had compatibility issues. The most problematic was Gavic Photo Slide. Since I wanted to keep that one, I decided to look for another solution for displaying images.
I tried Slimbox and will keep it, since it works.
I would love to see few improvements:
automated creation of thumbnails is useful and save some typing. Nice thing is added frame to thumbnails.
I tried to edit css, but had problems with it in firefox 3.01 and Opera 9.5.
Next thing that would be great would be more straightforward styling options for thumbnails. Or at least better documented for novice users. For instance there is no mention of class slimbox in css file etc.
Another problem I had was more template oriented. Some elements on my page were floating over pop-up image. I solved this by adding z-index to css file. If anyone else will meet this problem this might be helpful.

Regards

Installing and using this plug is very easy.

a simple and very useful plugin. i was using original lightbox but it has problems with Joomla 1.5. This plugin is what i'm looking for!

The plugin is really good, but for begginers like me it has a massive problem: The thumbnails overlap one with the other and there's no way to figure out how to fix it since there's no instructions. I've tried to email the developer but no luck. I'm sure it can work amazingly, but you gotta be good with code or will give you problems.

The gallery installed easily and is pretty straightforward to use. There were a couple things I learned the hard way:
> don't leave any carriage returns in the list of images. It totally breaks the gallery. You get the code on your webpage.
> watch out for styling on hover links. My pictures were being cut in half by big blocks of blue...turned out to be the css setting for hovers, triggered by the NEXT link!

Otherwise I'm really please so far and looking forward to using it. Thanks Amy!