15 Best jQuery Images Galleries Sliders and Template Tutorials

There are really hard and busy times when a designer with a little knowledge of coding starts creating a full website on his own. By supposing that somehow pass that hard to understand bunch of code, the problems appear when it’s not XHTML/CSS anymore, but more advanced programming languages or JavaScript libraries.

Slideshows are often used to showcase multiple images sequentially, or to feature a site’s popular content at the top of the homepage. It can be achieved with jQuery.

In the following round-up we have listed a set of awesome and really easy to understand jQuery plugins /Tutorials which will help you in adding Photo galleries or powered sliders, with various styles and options to choose from.

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MERGING IMAGE BOXES WITH JQUERY

( Demo || Download )

Today we will show you a nice effect for images with jQuery. The idea is to have a set of rotated thumbnails that, once clicked, animate to form the selected image.

mergingImageBoxes


MULTIMEDIA GALLERY FOR IMAGES, VIDEO AND AUDIO

( Demo || Download )

multimedia_gallery


IMAGE ZOOM TOUR WITH JQUERY

( Demo || Download )

Showing a main image initially, we want to be able to zoom into certain parts of the image by clicking on tags, using another image for the closer view

ImageZoomTour


AUTOMATIC IMAGE MONTAGE WITH JQUERY

(Demo || Download )

Arranging images in a montage like fashion can be a challenging task when considering certain constraints, like the window size when using fullscreen, the right image number to fill all the available space or also the size of the images in use.

AutomaticImageMontage


EXPANDING FULLSCREEN GRID PORTFOLIO

( Demo || Download )

Porfolia Template is neat experimental to have a grid layout that you can create with jQuery Masonry.

ExpandingFullscreenGridPortfolioTemplate


SLIDING BACKGROUND IMAGE MENU WITH JQUERY

( Demo || Download )

This menu will have several panels, each one corresponding to a different background image that will show on all panels

SlidingBackgroundImageMenu


GRID NAVIGATION EFFECTS WITH JQUERY

( Demo || Download )

GridNavigationEffects


SLIDING LETTERS WITH JQUERY

( Demo || Download )

slidingLetters


RESTAURANT WEBSITE AND GALLERY TEMPLATE

( Demo || Download )

Template is a restaurant website which will include an image gallery for the menu and an integrated Google map that shows the location

RestaurantTemplate


CIRCULAR DISCOGRAPHY TEMPLATE WITH JQUERY

( Demo || Download )

The template will show some discography or music albums in a rounded fashion, rotating the albums when clicking on next or previous.

circularDiscographyTemplate


3D WALL GALLERY

( Demo || Download )

Using the Safari browser the images of this gallery will be put into 3D perspective, when scrolling or sliding.

3dwallgallery


B&W BOX GALLERY

( Demo || Download )

In this idea, you can learn initial grid-like view of the different categories or albums.

bwboxgallery


Thumbnails Navigation Gallery with jQuery

( Demo || Download )

In this tutorial we are going to create an extraordinary gallery with scrollable thumbnails that slide out from a navigation.

thumbnails_navigation_gallery


Creating a polaroid photo viewer with CSS3 and jQuery

( Demo || Download )

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.

creating_photo_viewer


AnythingSlider

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This new AnythingSlider is an attempt at bringing together the functionality of all of those previous sliders and adding new features.

anythingslider

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10 Comments

  1. Jake says:

    You don’t need jQuery for Magic Zoom. Version 4.0 has just been released:

    http://www.magictoolbox.com/magiczoom/

  2. Adriana says:

    Awesome list of zoom effects!

  3. Dzinepress says:

    really useful plugins you sharing in this post. thanks

  4. Will Paige says:

    A good collection of plugin’s thank you!

  5. Michael says:

    Thanks for the list of plugins… I particularly like the one used on the image of Mr T… I find that one works really well.

  6. Way2Geeks says:

    Great job…Thanks for sharing..

  7. Hammad Baig says:

    Great post i like this jquery image effect thanks for the sharing

  8. admin says:

    @Prayag Verma: thanks very useful resources

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