50 jQuery Photo Gallery Plugins
When we want to show lots of content in limited screen space, Slideshows comes to rescue. Making use of slideshows is the optimal way to present large amount of information. In this post i’ll walk you through the process of making a very simple(minimilistic) slideshow using Mootools / Jquery.
jbgallery is a UI widget webpage written in javascript on top of the jQuery library.
Its function is to show a single big image, multiple images, multiple galleries, slideshows, as a site’s background, in a “dialog” mode or as a common pop-up.
3. Minimalistic Slideshow Gallery with jQuery
In today’s tutorial we will create a simple and beautiful slideshow gallery that can be easily integrated in your web site. The idea is to have a container with our slideshow and the options to view a grid of thumbnails, pause the slideshow, and navigate through the pictures. The thumbnail grid will slide out from the top and allow the user to navigate through a set of thumbnails.
4. Galleria
Galleria is an image gallery framework, written in JavaScript. The aim is to simplify the process of creating visually appealing image galleries for the web and mobile devices.
5. jQuery Multimedia Portfolio
This plugin for jQuery will automatically detect the extension of each media and apply the adapted player.
6. Galleriffic
Galleriffic is a jQuery plugin that provides a rich, post-back free experience optimized to handle high volumes of photos while conserving bandwidth. I am not so great at spelling, and it was much later that I realized that the more appropriate spellings would be Gallerific or Gallerrific, but is too late now for a name change, so Galleriffic remains. 
7. Making a Mosaic Slideshow With jQuery & CSS
When designing a product page, it is often necessary to present a number of images in a succession, also known as a slideshow. With the raise of the jQuery library and its numerous plugins, there is an abundance of ready-made solutions which address this problem. However, to make a lasting impression to your visitors, you need to present them with something they have not seen before.
8. Nivo Slider
9. Advanced jQuery background image slideshow
A couple of weeks ago, I received an e-mail from a guy named Patrick. He just visited the website from Philadelphia and wanted to know how to create the slideshow header that’s on top of the page. Since I was also impressed by the effect, I took the time to recreate this effect myself. Our focus is the background image slideshow (including the text), not the other things (like the dropdown menu).
Base on the Jquery Framework and the Easing Plugin, The JSiderNews Plugin is a slideshow plugin that displaying images or type of content and support favious navigation to previous|next items.
11. A Zoomable jQuery Image Gallery Called jPhotoGrid
This plugin takes a simple list of images and captions and turns it into a grid of photos that can be explored and zoomed.
12. jQuery Blinds
13. jQuery Carousel
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14. GalleryView: A jQuery Content Gallery Plugin
GalleryView aims to provide jQuery users with a flexible, attractive content gallery that is both easy to implement and a snap to customize.
15. Pikachoos
Pikachoose is a lightweight Jquery plugin that allows easy presentation of photos with options for slideshows, navigation buttons, and auto play. Pikachoose is designed to be easily installed, easy to setup, and well… all around easy, and if you need help, I can install PikaChoose on your website for you. 
16. Image Flow
ImageFlow is an unobtrusive and userfriendly JavaScript image gallery. For more information about ImageFlow read the features list, take a look at the documentation and check the blog. For anything else simply drop a line in the shoutbox. 
The s3Slider jQuery plugin is made by example of jd`s smooth slide show script. I needed something like that for jQuery (for my web site kruskica.net). Since i didnt find it after a small research i decided to build it by my self.
Today we learn how to fade list of images through each other in continuous loop. We will also add captions and tooltips to make it more usable. This simple effect is ideal for portfolio websites, galleries or magazines where images need to be seen. 
19. EOGallery
EOGallery is a web animated slideshow gallery made with jQuery. It only uses basic jQuery functions and Cody Lindley’s Thickbox to display larger pictures.
20. Pirobox
21. Gradually
Gradually offers API, a slide show, and a thumbnail gallery using ImageDrawer.
22. COIN SLIDER
23. AnythingSlider jQuery Plugin
This new AnythingSlider is an attempt at bringing together the functionality of all of those previous sliders and adding new features. In other words, to create a really “full featured” slider that could be widely useful. This is the first time (on CSS-Tricks) that one of these sliders is an actual plugin as well, which should make implementing it and customizing it much easier.
24. Slider Gallery
Smooth Div Scroll is a jQuery plugin that scrolls content horizontally left or right. Apart from many of the other scrolling plugins that have been written for jQuery, Smooth Div Scroll does not limit the scrolling to distinct steps. As the name of the plugin hints, scrolling is smooth. There are no visible buttons or links since the scrolling is done using hotspots within the scrollable area or via autoscrolling. Unobtrusive and smooth is the key here.
26. Supersized
27. Create Beautiful jQuery slider tutorial
This tutorial explains how to develop Create Beautiful jQuery sliders tutorial with image description and name.
28. VFancy Thumbnail Hover Effect w/ jQuery
Recently I was checking out some nice flash galleries and came across an effect that I really liked. I had a sudden urge to duplicate that similar effect but using my bread and butter (CSS and jQuery). I thought I’d share this and maybe some of you can find it useful.
29. Create an Image Rotator with Description (CSS/jQuery)
An image rotator is one great way to display portfolio pieces, eCommerce product images, or even as an image gallery. Although there are many great plugins already, this tutorial will help you understand how the image rotator works and helps you create your own from scratch.
The jQuery Cycle Plugin is a slideshow plugin that supports many different types of transition effects. It supports pause-on-hover, auto-stop, auto-fit, before/after callbacks, click triggers and much more. It also supports, but does not require, the Metadata Plugin and the Easing Plugin.
31. AD Gallery – a jQuery gallery plugin
I got inspired by myself when I wrote the Editable Select plugin, so I decided to write another one. It’s a gallery plugin that’s a bit different than plugins like Thickbox and Lightbox.
32. FancyBox
FancyBox is a tool for displaying images, html content and multi-media in a Mac-style “lightbox” that floats overtop of web page.
Want to display images as an automatic slideshow that can also be explicitly played or paused by the user? Simple Controls Gallery rotates and displays an image by fading it into view over the previous one, with navigation controls that pop up when the mouse rolls over the Gallery.
34. Sliding Image Gallery jQuery Plug-in
The idea behind this plug-in is to display a varying number of images in an attractive and easy to use manner. The inspiration for this plug-in this iTunes album viewer. The SlidingGallery plug-in will take a group of images and turn them into a cyclical gallery of images which the user can click through. One image will be centered on the screen, with two smaller images off to the sides.
35. slideViewerPro
slideViewerPro is a fully customizable jQuery image gallery engine wich allows to create outstanding sliding image galleries for your projects and/or interactive galleries within blog posts.
36. Spacegallery
37. jQuery Panel Gallery Plugin
38. Using the Wonderful jFlow Plugin
It seems that the obsession of the web design industry right now is the ability to create a “featured section”. While it once may have required a great deal of skill, that is no longer the case. In this screencast, I’ll show you how to easily create a scrollable featured section using one of Theme Forest’s popular themes as a reference. Let’s get into it!
39. A Beautiful Apple-style Slideshow Gallery With CSS & jQuery
When speaking about design, there is one company that is impossible to go without. Apple values design – being a new product, a fancy catalog or their website – there is always something to admire.
40. JQZoom
JQZoom is a javascript image magnifier built at the top of the popular jQuery javascript framework.jQzoom is a great and a really easy to use script to magnify what you want.
41. Moving Boxes
Many of the concepts presented in those tutorials are the same with this slider, so I’m not going to throw a lot of source code at you this time. The big difference here is that there are buttons to change panels and the panels zoom in and out. Fun!
42. Sliding Boxes and Captions with jQuery
All of these sliding box animations work on the same basic idea. There is a div tag (.boxgrid in my css) that essentially acts as a window where two other items of your choosing “peek” through.
With jQuery for Designer’s redesign I decided to add a scrolling carousel that worked in the same way the carousel worked on the Apple Mac ads page. This tutorial will walk through the fundamentals of the effect and how to recreate it.
44. Create a unique Gallery by using z-index and jQuery
In this tutorial we will combine the CSS property ‘z-index’ and the power of jQuery to create a unique gallery which have a appearance of a pile of pictures
45. Making a Content Slider with jQuery UI
In this tutorial we’re going to be using the jQuery UI slider widget to create an attractive and functional content slider. We’ll have a container, which has a series of elements each containing different blocks of content. There will be too many of these elements to display at once, so we can use the slider to move the different content blocks in and out of view.
Gareth Edward asked how to achieve the effect on the latest BBC Radio 1 website, where the mouse rolls over the image block, tabs slide up and the image zooms a little to reveal more of the picture.
47. Building a jQuery Image Scroller
In this tutorial, we’re going to be building an image scroller, making use of jQuery’s excellent animation features and generally having some fun with code. Image scrollers are of course nothing new; versions of them come out all the time. Many of them however are user-initiated; meaning that in order for the currently displayed content to change, the visitor must click a button or perform some other action. This scroller will be different in that it will be completely autonomous and will begin scrolling once the page loads.
48. Creating a polaroid photo viewer with CSS3 and jQuery
Placing them on simple polaroids on a webpage simply didn’t do it for me. I wanted to drag them around, rotate them and still have a fun time. That’s were CSS and jQuery come in play. By combining the CSS3 Box Shadow and Rotate properties, this effect is relatively easy to create. When dragging a polaroid around, you’ll see the shadow. When it’s placed down, it’s rotated to the left or the right (random).
49. A jQuery Portfolio Plugin that’s Interactive and Filterable
50. Build a Content Slider with jQuery
There are a ton of tutorials already out there about creating content sliders with jQuery.
So why bother writing another one? While I don’t think that the existing tutorials are
incorrect, bad, or otherwise unacceptable, I haven’t found one that met my needs.
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