For a “lightbox” effect I settled on WP-Lytebox – Grupenet after a bad experience getting wp-pretty photo to work and not liking the functionality of the built in java script effect in the WordPress editor.  In order to add the lytebox effect to the nextgen galleries I added this rel=”lytebox[]” inside the effects box with custom drop down checked under the nextgen galleries options effect page.

My client had added many photo galleries and wanted an album to page to display links to all the galleries.  This is a built in feature in nextgen gallery that lacks a couple of features.  Namely on the album page their isn’t a title of the gallery under the image for the respective gallery, the respective gallery page also needed a title, and there wasn’t a “back to album” link.  With the help of some other folks who had run into similar wants I added a few mods to get everything working.

http://narasopa.com/seoblog/2009/02/adding-title-and-description-to-nextgen-gallery-thumbnails/

<h1><?phpif($_GET['nggpage'] == “”){echo $gallery->title;}?></h1>