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A light box is a term that goes back to the old days when art was stored on transparencies (slides). In order to see the images with a loop (a special small magnifying glass) a glass topped box that had built-in lighting inside was used where the slides were put on top and often sorted and segregated when trying to pick just the right slide. This box is called a lightbox and the term has grown to mean a place online where you can put images in a place while deciding which you want to license.
For example, a designer might be designing a book about the Holy Spirit. As she looks through the dozens of images she thinks might work for the cover, she can put them in a lightbox she names “Holy Spirit Book”. She might narrow her search down to 6 images and then email the list to her editor for him to give her some feedback. Once the final decision is made, she might delete the lightbox.
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