Lightbox. Find files faster.

Revolutionary attachment technology that puts file browsing one click away from your favorite software applications.

Support for over 150 file formats. Visual thumbnails are created for most formats.

Preview full-sized images of files before opening them in your applications using Lightbox's Instant Viewer.

View full color information (RGB, CMYK and Web) using Lightbox's Color Picker.

Animated thumbnails are created for viewing multi-page files such as TIFF, animated GIF, Flash SWF and AVI files.

Dynamic tooltips are displayed about each file, detailing file information, image information, etc.

View detailed properties about files. Lightbox drills into files to extract file, image, web, video and meta data information.

Full drag and drop support for quick file insertion. Copy and Paste menu support for traditional file insertion.

Favorite folders are stored for rapid access to often-used folders.

History of folders navigated is stored for quick access using Back and Forward buttons and History pane.

Hide and show Lightbox with a single click so that file browsing is always available to you. No need to start a standalone browser or have your precious Desktop space occupied.

Get a productivity boost with Lightbox!

Lightbox uses a revolutionary new technique for attaching itself to applications. This sets it apart from all other file browsers on the market today.

Lightbox knows when applications are started, moved, resized, and exited, so that Lightbox stays attached to the application. This means that fast, visual file browsing can now be added to your existing software applications!

Over 150 file formats supported!

Lightbox supports over 150 file formats. Lightbox will find any of these file formats on your computer and display them in Lightbox, ready for you to insert into your application using drag/drop or Copy/Paste.

Lightbox supports all popular creative file formats:

Image files (JPEG, TIFF, PSD, AI, EPS, PNG, GIF, BMP, etc.)

Digital Camera files (EXIF, TIFF, JPEG, RAW)

Web files (HTML, ASP, CSS, etc.)

Video files (MPEG, AVI, WMV, etc.)

Audio files (MP3, WAV, etc.)

Document files (DOC, RTF, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc.).

This makes Lightbox perfect for graphic designers, web designers, digital photographers, technical writers, and all other creative professionals and creative users.

Visit the File Support page to see the full file format list.

Instant Viewer lets you see your files faster than ever before!

Lightbox's Instant Viewer displays full-sized preview of files for fast viewing. Instant Viewer has full zoom capability, rotate, transparency recognition, color picker (RGB, CMYK and Web), multi-page capability and full motion playback!

New! Animated thumbnails let you see more!

Lightbox displays animated thumbnails (not just single frame thumbnails like other file browsers) for multi-page image and video files, such as Flash SWF files, animated GIF files, AVI files, multi-page TIFF files and more.

Lightbox displays more about files than any other file browser!

Lightbox can drill into a file and display all the important details about your files:

File information - name, location, date, size, and attributes.

Image information - width, height, resolution, compression, layers, meta data, transparency and alpha channel data.

Video information - width, height, resolution, duration, codecs, and meta data.

Web information - number of images used, fonts used, scripts defined, embedded objects, hyperlinks, total download size and total download time.

Meta data information - EXIF, IPTC and Maker Notes meta data are extracted from EXIF and RAW digital camera image files.

Lightbox is optimized for professional users!

Lightbox has been designed for users of professional software applications like Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Illustrator and more. Lightbox contains time-saving features that enables you to navigate to files and folders on your computer faster than ever before.

Awards and Testimonials

"This is the file browser we've been waiting for! It's fast, intuitive, automated, and shows metadata. The drag and drop functions have really speeded things up around here. I'm using it under Corel Draw and all my image editing programs." Robert J.

"Awesome. This is a really nice tool. A must-have for all content developers" Don M.

"Finally something that thumbnails HTML." Randall.

"Must for web designers. Thumbnails all my web files and saves me heaps of time." Mike.

"Awesome tool for web designers. Browsing is very fast. File support is better than other progs since it does HTML files & SWF. This is brilliant for web designers." Gary Peterson.

"Very cool. I no longer have to wait for Adobe, Macromedia and Corel to add file preview support. I can add it myself with Lightbox. I LOVE this!!" Justine F., Rochester, USA.

"I recommend it for all serious designers who want a productivity boost. I have attached it to Photoshop and Dreamweaver MX and its already helping me sort out my files. Two things I really like as a web designer: 1. its really fast, and 2. it thumbnails all my web files and gives me detailed info such as total size. This helps so much." Brad Schroeder, Los Angeles.

"Works great with Photoshop
I attached Lightbox to Photoshop. Very cool idea. I now see all my files as thumbnails. No more flipping to Windows Explorer or ACDSee." Craig.

"Extremely useful for web authors. Lightbox shows thumbnails for all your web files - HTML, ASP, JPG and GIF. Plus it has a really useful instant viewer & color picker that supports web format. I now have lightbox connected to Dreamweaver MX and its saving me heaps of time. No more flipping to other progs. Well done." Jason.

"What a fantastic program! I love this program. I attached it to Outlook, Paintshop Pro and Word. I can see my digital camera photos at anytime now. Thank you!" Werner H.

"Better than others. I've downloaded a dozen image browsers (incl. IrfanView, ACDSee & CompuPic) and this one suits graphic designers the best. No bloatware features are included - just fast browsing and instant viewing of files. The way it attaches to my progs and keeps its settings for each prog is excellent. Recommended." Rick Gleeson.