Javascript Image Galleries
There are a large number of Javascript image galleries and sometimes it's hard to decide which one is better. Here are the list of the best galleries you can use for presentation of your images.
jQuery Image Galleries
RoyalSlider
If you don't mind paying to get decent quality, it is worth looking into plugins sold on the CodeCanyon. RoyalSlider is a good example that can save you some hassle. The developer of this component clearly cares about code size, documentation quality as well as mobile support.
Galleriffic
Galleriffic is jquery gallery created with performance in mind for delivering a high volume of photos. It's features include thumbnail navigation, bookmark-friendly URLs, optional download link for the original image and graceful degradation when javascript is not available.
Slideviewer
SlideViewer is a lightweight jQuery gallery with a very smooth animation. You can style it easily and add title to each picture just by specifying the alt attribute.
Galleria
Galleria loads the images one by one from an unordered list and displays thumbnails when each image is loaded. It will create thumbnails for you if you choose so, scaled or unscaled, centered and cropped inside a fixed thumbnail box defined by CSS.
s3Slider
s3Slider is a jQuery slideshow system for creating smooth transitions with images.
Spacegallery
Gallery with a nice animation, that is similar to Apple's time machine. When you click on the top image, it fades away and the next one is shown.
Zoomimage
Present you images in stylish way. The links are unobtrusively highjacked to open the images in an inpage popup with drop shadow and border.
Image gallery by James
A simple image gallery/viewer that is fully unobtrusive, so you can still view the images when JS is disabled.
Cycle plugin
The jQuery Cycle Plugin is a lightweight slideshow plugin. It supports pause-on-hover, auto-stop, auto-fit, before/after callbacks, click triggers and many transition effects. It also supports, but does not require, the Metadata Plugin and the Easing Plugin.
Thickbox
ThickBox is a webpage UI dialog widget written in JavaScript on top of the jQuery library. Its function is to show a single image, multiple images, inline content, iframed content, or content served through AJAX in a hybrid modal.
Fancybox
Fancybox is lightbox plugin that automatically scales large images to fit in window, adds a nice drop shadow under the zoomed item, groups related items and adds navigation through them (uses preloading).
Mootools Image Galleries
Slideshow2
Slideshow 2 is a javascript class for Mootools 1.2 to stream and animate the presentation of images on your website.
MooFlow
A beautiful gallery with nice animation and reflections. It supports different image loading methods.
Image gallery by tutorialdog.com
A solution for creating a HTML friendly Javascript image gallery using mootools.
(E)2 Photo Gallery
(E)2 Photo Gallery is a open source gallery designed to allow you to upload your photos to a desired folder, tell the (E)2 Photo Gallery what folder to look at and it will automatically load the images using PHP.
Imago
Imago is an Ajax Image Gallery with focus on simplicity and ease of use. Whether your photos are on flickr, smugmug or you'd like to host photos yourself, Imago can show them.
Prototype Image Galleries
Protoflow
ProtoFlow is a coverflow effect written in Javascript. It uses Prototype and Scriptaculous to do bulk of the work and it uses Reflection.js to do all the image reflections stuff!
Lightbox2
Lightbox is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.
