jQuery Plugins are great time savers for web designers. Web Designers are creating dynamic effects to their websites with the use of jQuery Plugins. jQuery Plugin library has plugins for almost all the tasks that need to be done in order to create a website. But most of the time web designers use jQuery Plugins for adding galleries to their websites. In this post I collected a list of top jQuery Plugins that are ideal for managing images and media on websites.
jQuery Media Plugins
ImageZoom – Responsive jQuery Image Zoom Plugin
ImageZoom is a jQuery plugin for image zoom effect. It has thrid mode of image zoom effect : inner mode,standard mode and follow mode.
Double Viewer jQuery Plugin
Double Viewer jQuery Plugin is an easy-driven and comfy app which allows you to compare two different images in one slider.
Image Player jQuery Plugin
If you have a sequence of images with names something like “01.jpg, 02.jpg” or “00001.jpg,…00022.jpg….000xx.jpg” etc. as long as the names are consecutive the player will auto detect the number of 0 a image has and the path to the folder where images are stored. All you have to pass is the first and last frame number.
Final Tiles Gallery
Final Tiles Gallery is the best jQuery Plugin when it comes to showcase images in tiles manner.
Mesmerize: jQuery Image FX Plugin
Tired of opening up Photoshop just to make an image grayscale, or to add a little blur? Now you can add image effects on the fly using jQuery, leaving the original image untouched.
jQuery Fullscreen Slideshow
This plugin is really useful when it comes to add fullscreen slideshows to the website.
Overgray
Overgray is a jQuery plugin that allows you to apply various gray scale effects on images when user hovers over them with cursor.
Tap Zoom
Touch Zoom is a jQuery plugin that allows your user to zoom into an image using their mouse or finger depending on the viewing device. It works well in all modern browsers, degrades gracefully in IE8 and IE7 and is optimized for responsive web design. There are a lot of features that are available if you purchase the full version including: customized gesture, borders, zoom and animation control and an optional parameter that allows the user to implement a conditional load for the large image, which is only called when the user interacts with it.
True Panorama
This plugin allows you to add panorama to your website.
Google Plus Photo Gallery Plugin
This javascript plugin allows you to include your own Google Plus Photo Gallery into your own site. Your visitors will never know the photo’s came from google.
Loveish Kalsi
Loveish Kalsi is a freelance Web and Graphic Designer from India. He is the owner of famous design blog Creativedesignmagazine.com
