LightBox2 is based on JQuery, one of the most used AJAX libraries worldwide.
LightBox2 ships 4 different plugins for managing behaviour and effects of your images, each with a number of options and settings you can configure on your own within Magento backend.
You can manage slideshows, auto resizing, colors, effects and much much more with one of following plugins:

• Traditional Lightbox: for nostalgics of first easy and clear visualization!
• FancyBox: for minimalistic picture frame
• PrettyPhoto: for an immersive experience with small thumbs navigation inside image
• ColorBox: for highly configurable user experience with up to 5 different themes and huge availability of custom settings

LightBox2 can manage all Magento catalog images type alongside with picture frames: width, height, max width and max height for base, small and thumbnails images are supported.

LightBox2 is fully multi-store compatible and integration is completely automatic and update-safe via media.phtml file override.