16 Best Image Zoom Effects with jQuery Plugins

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jQuery is awesome and you can find plugins to accomplish almost anything you want. Today we have a list of some jQuery Plugins That Let You Create Amazing Image Zoom Effects on your website or blog. This thing can prove to be really helpful, especially when you have large pictures that will otherwise take up too much space. jQuery is really powerful and you can do a lot of amazing things using it!

You can also take a look at other articles in this series

Jcrop

Jcrop is a handy way of adding picture cropping ability to your web app. It combines handiness of a jQuery plugin with a powerful cross-platform DHTML cropping engine!

jQuery gzoom plugin

jQuery gzoom plugin is a good image zoom plugin that has many features, such as, clicking on plus and minus to zoom, dragging the slider to zoom, zooming using mousewheel hover the picture, moving mouse hover the picture change the pan and clicking on the picture to show in lightbox style etc.

Hover Zoom

This one can be used for creating the hover zoom effect, which basically reverse zooms a picture whilst fading in a label on top of it when the mouse hovers over it. This is a really stylish effect that can be used beautifully on thumbnails.

Creating An Image Zoom And Clip Effect With jQuery

This video tutorial on how to create a picture zoom effect, in which you can choose a region of a picture and the picture will automatically scale up to show the chosen region.

AnythingZoomer jQuery Plugin

AnythingZoomer jQuery Plugin is a great plugin that can be used when you have a small area. What it does is that when you mouse over an image, a pop up comes up showing a zoomed in closer look.

JQZoom

This one is a great javascript image magnifier created at the top of the popular jQuery javascript framework.jQzoom. It is a handy script that lets you magnify what ever you want.

jQuery Cycle plugin

jQuery Cycle plugin is an amazing plugin that has features like pause-on-hover, auto-stop, auto-fit, before/after callbacks, click triggers and various transition effects. Simply amazing!

Crop, labelOver and pluck

Crop lets your visitors crop any picture on the go by using JavaScript only. 2 other plugins are also present: LabelOver and Pluck.

ImgAreaSelect

This one is a jQuery plugin that lets you select a rectangular area of a picture.

PHP & jQuery image upload and crop

An amazing plugin that allows users to upload and crop pictures on your website.

PanView

PanView lets your visitors check out details of a big picture and move around with the mouse.

Image Zoom 2.0

Image Zoom 2.0 allows links pointing to pictures open in the “Image Zoom”. When you click a link the clicked image will zoom out to its target-image. You have the ability of clicking anywhere on the picture or the close-button to zoom the picture back in. Only ~3k minified.

jQuery PhotoShoot Plugin

This plugin allows converting any div on your web page into a photo shooting effect, with a view finder. You can see the demonstration, or a tutorial on how to use it here.

Jquery iviewer

This one is a great plugin that can be used to load and see pictures in container with ability of zooming the picture and to dragging it with mouse in container.

jQuery plugin : Fancy Zoom