Image galleries and slideshows provide a good user experience and make viewing images more pleasant and intuitive on your website. With the advent of powerful JavaScript frameworks like jQuery, Prototype, Mootools etc., the quality of JavaScript based image galleries and slideshows have improved dramatically.
As these frameworks are getting popular day by day, more and more web developers are coming out with new and creative ideas every day. Here are 21 brilliant jQuery plugins which you can easily use to create an image gallery/slideshow for your website.
1. Spacegallery
Spacegallery displays your images with a nice 3D effect and it is also pretty easy to use and customize.
2. prettyPhoto
prettyPhoto might look like jQuery Lightbox clone but it supports videos, flash, YouTube videos, iFrames besides images. It also comes with useful API and 4 beautiful themes. It is a great plugin to create an image as well as multimedia gallery.
3. Zoomimage
Stylish way to present your images in a nice popup with a drop shadow and border.
4. Pirobox
Another lightbox based image gallery plugin that resizes images based on browser size and next/prev links can be placed inside or outside of the image.
5. slideViewerPro
slideViewerPro is a fully customizable jQuery image gallery engine that lets you create outstanding sliding image galleries for your projects or interactive galleries within blog posts.
6. Galleria
Galleria generates an image gallery from an unordered list and once the images are loaded, thumbnail navigation is generated. It is easy to customize using just CSS and degrades gracefully if JavaScript is disabled.
7. jQuery PanelGallery
jQuery PanelGallery generates a slideshow of images with a unique transition. Image transition occurs in a sequential manner displaying the new image panel by panel, thus the name PanelGallery. It is lightweight and allows you to change the direction of panel transition.
8. PikaChoose
Pikachoose allows easy presentation of a bunch of images using slideshows with nice thumbnails, next/prev buttons and autoplay options.
9. jQuery Gallery Plugin
This plugin will transform a list of images into a flash like image gallery. Thumbnail navigation only shows up when you hover over the image and behaves like infinite carousel.
10. EOGallery
EOGallery creates an animated slideshow and images are displayed in larger size using jQuery Thickbox plugin.
11. Smooth Div Scroll
As the name suggests, this plugin scrolls content smoothly and horizontally in either left or right direction. This plugin can scroll any html content and if you use images, you’ll end up with a nice smoothly scrolling slideshow.
12. Sliding Image Gallery
Sliding image gallery displays a number of images in an easy to use manner just like the iTunes Album Viewer. It is quite easy to implement and gives you a lot of options to customize.
13. Step Carousel Viewer
This plugin displays images or any HTML content by side scrolling them left or right with a smooth sliding animation during transition. And with its two public methods and two custom event handlers, you can customize it to your requirement easily.
14. jQuery Virtual Tour
With this plugin, you can convert panoramic views into virtual tours, it degrades gracefully if JavaScript is disabled.
15. Ultimate Fade In Slide Show
This is a robust, cross browser fade in slideshow script that incorporates some of your most requested features all rolled into one.
16. ThickBox Gallery
jQuery Thickbox plugin can be used for creating a nice image viewer that shows images in a lightbox and supports keyboard shortcuts to navigate through the images.
17. jQuery Lightbox
This one is a simple elegant and unobtrusive plugin to create an overlay image viewer that supports keyboard shortcuts and requires minimal coding effort.
18. GalleryView
GalleryView lets you create a flexible and attractive content that is very easy to implement and customize. Also, their way of explaining the anatomy of GalleryView plugin is very intuitive.
19. Flickr Gallery
Flickr Gallery generates a slideshow whose size varies with the size of image. As the name suggests, it can directly pull images from a flickr account(needs Flickr API key) or you can use just a simple unordered list. Thumbnail navigation is intuitive with a nice scrolling bar.
20.Easy Slider
Easy slider enables images to slide either horizontally or vertically and it can be styled easily using CSS. The latest version of this plugin supports continuous scroll instead of jumping over to first slide from last slide.
21. SuperSized
Using Supersized, you can display large sized photos easily as it will scale the images automatically depending on browser size and supports preloading of images for better experience.
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