Congrats to both you and Amit on the new version!

A very useful application... the icon of a pencil eraser makes me think of erassing with precision -- at first I thought it might be a masking tool, then I thought it might erase a single picture. Of course the tool tip says what it does, but I still surprised myself a couple times by wiping out the whole screen.

Maybe a big eraser, or a bathtub drain, or a modified "tile" icon with red X's over everything?

Adding the ability to crop would be great.. and what about overlaying images?

In my "Media Aesthetics" course we briefly discussed this Sistine Chapel image, and students have been frustrated by the difficulties of producing images in context for their oral presentations. I'll happily bring this tool to their attention.

Whoops -- I see that transparent GIFs, even animated ones, work just fine.

Correction... when I save and reload a lightbox session with a transparent GIF, the transparent background has been changed to white.

I also find that I'd love to be able to right-click and rotate images.

Sorry to give you all these little complaints -- I'm happily using your tool and can think of all kinds of applications for it.

Being able to show and hide individual images is great... would it be possible to remove one image from a set-up, rather than wipe the whole thing?

You call 'em complaints Dennis, I call 'em feedback. And very useful too. A lot of these items are already on our to do list (see the very bottom of the Applet page) and I hope to see them all in version 3.0. In the meantime, the Lightbox is also open source, and we're very open to other developers pitching in and adding to its capabilities. Send me URLs if/when you implement this for your classes, etc.

For the moment, I've simply posted a link to your Sistine Chapel demo...

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/nmj/002507.html