ARI Colorbox is Joomla! lightbox module which provides ability to display image galleries, Flickr and Picasa galleries, external pages, HTML content, Joomla! articles and modules in attractive popup.

Main features:

* User friendly interface;
* Can display external pages and inline content;
* Provides ability to create image galleries based on images from specific folder(s). Can generate thumbnails and cache data for decreasing server loading. Supports gallery mode (shows all image on page) and single image mode (shows the first thumbnail and provides ability for navigations between gallery images);
* Can display Flickr photos based on Flickr photoset ID(s), collection ID(s), group ID(s) and user ID(s);
* Can show Picasa albums;

* Provides ability to show private Picasa and Flickr photos;
* Can display images and content in slideshow mode;
* Supports 5 themes;
* Highly customizable;
* Can attach lightbox to specific links. For example to display menu items in colorbox;
* Can be used in any Joomla! content;
* Supports possibility for showing additional image parameters (such as description, title and other) which you can define in CSV file;
* You can change gallery layout. It requires minimum HTML knowledge;
* Provides different gallery themes;
* Can rotate thumbnails and apply grayscale filter;
* Provides the following methods for generating thumbnails:

   * resize - resize an original image to necessary size with saving aspect ratio;
   * crop - get part of an original image with necessary size and offset;
   * crop and resize - get part of an original image with necessary size and offset and resize it to necessary size.

* Can display module in Joomla! articles with help ARI Colorbox plugin;
* Supports possibility to create thumbnails and popup for inline images in any Joomla! content. Only wrap necessary content with {aricolorbox} tag;
* The following extensions support integration with ARI Colorbox:

   ARI Image Slider - http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/photos-a-images/images-slideshow/13262
   ARI Cloud Carousel - http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/photos-a-images/images-rotators/13384
   ARI Slick Gallery - http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/photos-a-images/photo-gallery/13770

   ARI Orbit Slider - http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/photos-a-images/images-slideshow/14537
   ARI Magnifier - http://bit.ly/eM3PTM
   ARI Zoom - http://bit.ly/ebxTgA

* Works in modern browsers: IE6+, FireFox, Opera, Chrome, Safari and other;
* It is open source and under GNU/GPL license.