Top 10 jQuery Plugins to Enhance Your Images

Images are a vital component of most websites. They add depth and can illustrate and explain a concept. There are several jQuery Plugins that are designed to enhance images, making your sites great looking and very functional and easy to view.

Here are ten jQuery Plugins to enhance your images

1. Easy Image Rollover Script

This jQuery plugin allows you to create simple rollover images on your site. This is a great tool when you want to highlight different elements or add explanations or descriptions to an image. Viewers like this capability as it gives them instant information.

2. jQuery Thumbs

This plugin helps to easily created thumbnails. This tool can help you link and wrap images. Thumbnails add organization to your images and allow viewers to scan your pages quickly.

3. Gallerific

This plugin is for creating fast performing photo galleries. It includes features like Smart image preloading. This is an excellent tool for presenting collections of photos or images. Viewers generally do not like slow loading images and will move on if they take too long.

4. jQZoom

This jQuery plugin is a zooming tool, and uses a JavaScrip magnifier so viewers can get up close look at your images. This is good for e commerce sites where customers may want to get a closer look at the product.

5. FancyBox

This jQuery plugin is an advanced light box analog. It has several features including ability to scale large images to fit in a window and drop shadow to use with zoomed images.

6. JQuery Corner

This plugin allows you to create different kinds of corners on your images, including rounded, bevel, and curl. With this tool you can change the look of the different images on your site to enhance visual appeal.

7. Wilq32.Rotate Image

This jQuery plugin allows you to rotate images that were created in JavaScript and HTML5 canvas. This can create visually unique pages, especially if artistic photos or images are being used on the site.

8. Image Switch

This jQuery plugin lets you create an effect when you switch between images. It is reported to be easy to use, and a fast plugin. This is a nice touch for creating unique image segues.

9. jQuery Image Stip

With this plugin you can show several different views of an image, useful if customers need to see various sides of a product. For instance, some products must be seen at several angles to get the full effect. With this plugin you can create several image panels on a product.

10. jCarousel Lite

This jQuery plugin is flexible and can be customized. It allows you to use a carousel widget to navigate through the images on your site.

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2. Kate Manson says:

   September 19, 2009 at 4:55 pm

   Jquery is a real time saver for us. Thanks for the nice list

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