30 Amazing jQuery Image Effect Plugins To Enhance Your Images

Add a gush of style to the plain images in your website using this collection of jQuery Image Effect plugins, that help enhance images, create galleries, scrollers and bring in life to the plain images.

1. Image Loading with jQuery

This tutorial will show how to load images in the background, and once loaded handle the event and create your own response.

2. Supersized jQuery Plugin

What exactly does Supersized do?
* Resizes images to fill browser while maintaining image dimension ratio
* Cycles Images/backgrounds via slideshow with transitions and preloading
* Navigation controls allow for pause/play and forward/back

3. Zoomimage – jQuery plugin

Present you images in stylish way. The links are unobtrusively highjacked to open the images in an inpage popup with drop shadow and border.

4. jQuery Fancybox Plugin

FancyBox is tool for displaying images, html content and multi-media in a Mac-style “lightbox” that floats overtop of web page.

5. Image hover effect using jQuery

In this post, I will show you how to make a image hover effect using div in jquery.Take a look at a telebid.com if you put the mouse over the bid button it will be changed to login and afterwards it become bid button.

6. Simple JQuery Image Slide Show with Semi-Transparent Caption

I will show you how to create a simple image slide show with a semi-transparent caption with jQuery. This example is suitable to display news headlines, or a image slide show in your website frontpage.

7. Using the Wonderful jFlow Plugin

It seems that the obsession of the web design industry right now is the ability to create a featured section. While it once may have required a great deal of skill, that is no longer the case. In this screencast, I will show you how to easily create a scrollable featured section using one of Theme Forests popular themes as a reference. Let us get into it!

8. S3 Slider jQuery Plugin

The s3Slider jQuery plugin is made by example of jd smooth slide show script. I needed something like that for jQuery (for my web site kruskica.net). Since i didnt find it after a small research i decided to build it by my self. It is very easy. First include the jQuery library then include the s3Slider javascript in the head of the page(s) where you want to use s3Slider.

9. Blink and bounce effect on image or object using jquery

In this jQuery tutorial I will show you how you can add bounce or blink effect to an image or div using jQuery.

10. jQuery image slide on hover effect

This is a simple technique to animate an image when hovering using jQuery animate() effect. We will use this effect to manipulate our CSS, creating a seamless transition between two areas of an image.

11. jQuery Thumbnail with Zooming Image and Fading Caption Tutorial

Learn how to build thumbnail gallery with zooming effect and fadein and fadeout caption. This tutorial will walk you through the concept behind it and how to code it.

12. CrossSlide jQuery Plugin

CrossSlide is a jQuery plugin that implements in Javascript some common slide-show animations, traditionally only available to the web developer via Adobe Flash? or other proprietary plugins. CrossSlide builds upon jQuery animation facility, so it is as portable across browsers as jQuery itself (a lot.)

13. jQ Zoom jQuery Plugin

JQZoom is a javascript image magnifier built at the top of the popular jQuery javascript framework.jQzoom is a great and a really easy to use script to magnify what you want.

14. Image Preview Using jQuery

I love jQuery and the way it makes developers life easier. Although it took me a while to accept it and I still prefer to write my own stuff, I can not deny its advantages. Recently I had a project that demanded a rollover image preview. You know, one of those tooltip-like bubble popups that appears when you roll over link or a thumbnail. Since we were already using jQuery on that project I decided to take it easy and investigate what can be done with that extraordinary library. So I came up wit

15. Animated InnerFade with JQuery

Create an animated image transition effect with inner fade using this wonderful jQuery plugin.

16. Crop jQuery Plugin

Crop an image easily using this jQuey plugin. The crop plugin takes an IMG element and crops them to the dimensions given. The result is a DIV with a background image with the height and width and an offset. The new DIV should also carry across the existing style attributes of the image.

17. Creating a polaroid photo viewer with CSS3 and jQuery

Placing images on simple polaroids on a webpage simply did not do it for me. I wanted to drag them around, rotate them and still have a fun time. That iss 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 will see the shadow. When it is placed down, it iss rotated to the left or the right (random).

18. imgAreaSelect jQuery Plugin

imgAreaSelect is a jQuery plugin for selecting a rectangular area of an image. It allows web developers to easily implement image cropping functionality, as well as other user interface features, such as photo notes (like those on Flickr).

19. jQuery spherical panorama viewer Plugin

A javascript viewer for displaying spherical panoramas. An alternative to Java and QuickTime technology.

20. Photo Effects using jQuery Plugin

A jquery plugin that bring life to your image by letting it bounce and shake in accordance with mouse by tracking mouseover/mouseout.

21. jQuery Image Magnify

Description: jQuery Image Magnify enables any image on the page to be magnified by a desired factor when clicked on, via a sleek zoom in/out effect. The enlarged image is centered on the users screen until dismissed. It works on both images with and without explicit width/height attributes defined. This means you can take a large image that by default would look out of place when shown, shrink it using explicit width/height attributes, then enable users to magnify it on demand to its original di

22. jQuery Image Warp script

jQuery ImageWarp adds an interesting warp effect to select images on your page so clicking on them causes the image to expand temporarily before reverting back to the image original dimensions. It is most useful applied to hyperlinked images to create a delayed effect before the user is taken to the actual link. Customize the duration of the effect plus the warped image final dimensions relative to the original

23. jQuery Virtual Tour Plugin

Want to roma around in a virtual world? Then do it with this jQuery Virtual Tour Plugin. This is an extension to the simple panorama viewer that allows you to play a little bit more with jQuery by adding interactivity to transform some panoramic views into a virtual tour.

24. imJQMosaic – A jQuery plugin to create mosaic pattern using an image

With this jQuery plugin, you can create the desired mosaic pattern using an image. I have been often asked by people who have visited my website, if the home page design was a Flash or how to create that kind of effect in HTML along with menus, etc. Well, considering the curiosity of my viewers and readers, I went back into my code and extracted the logic into a jQuery plugin called, imJQMosaic.

25. Image splitting effect with CSS and JQuery

In this tutorial we are going to make an image splitting effect. What is that? It is simillar to a sliding door effect where the image slides to left or right side and reveals the text behind it, but the thing that makes this different is that the effect looks like the image is splitted into half and one goes left and the other one goes right. One thing that is very important is that there will not be 2 images, its only one