10 Useful jQuery Plugins for Images
We all know and love jQuery for its flexibility and many uses. But some of the most impressive jQuery applications are those that involve images. It really can allow you to do some useful stuff and even add a “wow” factor to your project. So here we’ve rounded up 10 jQuery plugins to help you display images in your next project.
Slides
Slides is a crazy simple slideshow plugin for jQuery. With features like looping, auto play, fade or slide transition effects, crossfading, image preloading, and auto generated pagination.
Face Detection
Face Detection is an impressive plugin that does just what its name suggests. It detects faces in photos.
AviaSlider
AviaSlider is a jQuery slideshow plugin with unique transition effects.
Fullscreenr
So you want to have a background image on your website, which always fills the screen and maintains its aspect ratio? And it has to be centered, instead of focussing at the top left corner of the image? This plugin does that.
Slidy
jQuery Slidy is a plugin that generates a customizable transitions automatically.
MobilyNotes
MobilyNotes is lightweight (2KB) jQuery plugin that shows your images or other html content in a stacked format.
jQuery Easy Slides
Easy Slides is an extremely easy to use plugin for making slideshows. It also has the advantage of being fairly light weight, with both Javascript and CSS weighing in at just under 2.1kb.
Booklet
Booklet is a jQuery plugin for displaying images and more in a book format with a turning page effect.
MobilySelect
MobilySelect is jQuery plugin (2kB) that replaces one collection of items with another.
Pikachoose
Pikachoose is a lightweight Jquery plugin that allows easy presentation of photos with options for slideshows, navigation buttons, and auto play.
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13 comments
Pete Barnes
January 20, 2011Some great plugins here, sliders are quite a big deal at the moment, thanks for posting
Eddie
January 20, 2011These are really cool jQuery applications especially the Pikachoose plugin that allows easy presentation of your photos and great slideshow options.
Erin Pierce
January 20, 2011I would also add radSLIDE to this list. It is a very customizable jQuery plugin for WordPress. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/radslide/
Carlo Rosati
January 21, 2011These are really great for people like me who are intimidated by javascript. i can’t wait to use these in a website. Thanks!
Lakeside Technologies
January 25, 2011Thanks for the list of these plugins for image display.
toutpt
January 25, 2011All jquery plugins for images&gallery I have tryed out doesn’t support lots of images (200+), except galleriffic.
Robbie Douglas
February 9, 2011These are pretty cool, I’ve only recently started using JQuery in my work
Rahul Rakesh
May 27, 2011The plugins on the site are awesome and really very helpful for designing a website. Thank a lot for giving us such a good stuff.
Sandeep
September 14, 2011These are pretty cool,I’ve only recently started using jquery in my work
Eda Can
January 1, 2012very nice. It will be useful for my next project
James Patricio
February 16, 2012Very useful and helpful on my part on the site im currently building.. Good thing i found this article ^^
Web Sitesi Tasarimi
May 18, 2012Very nice JQuery samples. i have to use Slidy on my web page.Thank you.
Chase Willden
March 26, 2013These plugins are great. I think many of these are very professional.