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I think we should enter our best sellers.  The reasons being (of which you named a few)

• The lightboxes could become known as high quality boxes
• The best images appear first in the lightboxes - if you upload crap images, they will appear at the bottom and you won't get any clicks anyhow.  People will click the 'lightbox' banner, go to the box and download a different picture than yours.  If you upload great shots, they might download yours AND a new image found in the lightbox
• better selling images get more exposure and will give the lightbox more exposure hopefully creating more sales for everyone

I don't often have enough images on a theme, and they may not even be bestsellers, so you're doomed with my crap.   

Regards,
Adelaide

Sorry for reviving such an old thread, but the search didn't reveal the answer to my question.

I have made a lightbox of thematically related images in my portfolio.

How do you make an IS lightbox pubic. I read two conflicting instructions on the site. 

One says: "You must have images from more than one artist and over 20 images in the lightbox before it may be made public."

the other says: "Your lightboxes can be kept private or, after you've added 20 files, be made public and searchable by other iStockphoto members.

I see lightboxes that appear when an image is clicked on.  They contain grouped photos by a single artist/contributor.  How is that done?

In the FAQ, the following information is given:
"To edit lightboxes, click on the ‘Manage’ link at the bottom of the list of your lightboxes. Once there, you may make the lightbox public if it’s eligible, edit the content or description and delete or email any lightbox."

I don't see any 'Manage' link at the bottom or the word 'Manage' anywhere on the page of my lightbox.

But you don't need to make your lightbox public at all. Just linking to a private lightbox in the description field of an image is sufficient. Private doesn't mean access is controlled, only that it isn't searchable, so without the link no one would know it was there.

Thank you.  However I am still not seeing any control to make it public. 

Possibly public is not what I am looking for (yet they are called lightbox when you click on them).  I see images that display lightbox links on the left side of page that are exclusive to the creator of the image.  The image is not even contained in the lightboxes displayed.  They seem to be grouping set up by the individual contributor (neither 20 image minimum or from multiple contributors).

This is for reference to what I am seeking (no insult or complaint intended to the contributor):

http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-6691673-senior-man-giving-woman-piggyback-ride.php

they are listed as: Clever Concepts, Health and Healing, Seniors, Teenagers, etc.

Dan, have you added other artists' images to your lightbox?  You won't see the option to make it public until you do.  

If you are only doing lightboxes of your own images, to link in your description field, they can't be, and don't need to be "public".  They will be viewable by anyone who clicks on your link.  

Public lightboxes and non-public ones are really completely different.  They used to call public lightboxes "galleries", and the private ones lightboxes.  It was less confusing.