jQuery is becoming present in more Web 2.0 sites. jQuery slideshows or galleries take a grouping of images and turn it into an flash-like image/photo gallery. There are a lot of different methods to create them and today we are going to look into different jQuery plugins that can be used to create a better photo

1. Create a Beautiful jQuery Slider Tutorial

This tutorial shows you how to develop a beautiful jQuery slider with added image description and name. The final result is a very smooth and visually pleasing slideshow which could be easily integrated into any site.

2. Full Screen Image Gallery Using jQuery and Flickr

This is a full screen image gallery that automatically scales the image with kept aspect ratio to fill the browser background. It uses the flickr search engine with thumbnail preview, captions, preloader and some other excellent goodies. It scales the image using CSS only (some JS for IE6) and developed with jQuery.

3. Galleria is a javascript image gallery written in jQuery

Galleria is a javascript image gallery written in jQuery. It loads the images one by one from an unordered list and displays thumbnails when each image is loaded.

4. Galleriffic was inspired by Mike Alsup’s Cycle plugin

Galleriffic was inspired by Mike Alsup’s Cycle plugin, but with performance in mind for delivering a high volume of photos.

5. GalleryView aims to provide jQuery users with a flexible

GalleryView aims to provide jQuery users with a flexible, attractive content gallery that is both easy to implement and a snap to customize.

6. Pikachoose is a lightweight Jquery plugin

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 and easy to setup.

7. jQuery Gallery Scroller (jqGalScroll)

jQuery Gallery Scroller (jqGalScroll) takes list of images and creates a smooth scrolling photo gallery scrolling vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. The plugin will also create pagination to allow you to flow through your photos.

8. Supersized is an image gallery built by BuildInternet.com

Supersized is an image gallery built by BuildInternet.com and it is able to slideshows the images with full screen. Besides that, it has navigation controls that allow for pause/play and forward/back.

9. slideViewer is a lightweight (1.5Kb) jQuery plugin

slideViewer is a lightweight (1.5Kb) jQuery plugin wich allows to instantly create an image gallery by writing just few lines of HTML such as an unordered list of images.

10. prettyPhoto is a jQuery lightbox clone

prettyPhoto is a jQuery lightbox clone. It has excellent animations and support themes.

11. Image Gallery by qd-creative

This is a simple image gallery created by the author of qd-creative.co.uk.

12. Sliding Boxes and Captions with jQuery Tutorial

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. Nice effect.