Images are the best option to add life in a website. But plain simple images are now outdated. Splashy, layouts for images are the current hot trends in web designs. Until now this type of image transitions were only available in Flash, but with the help of jQuery now we can actually create some stunning effects, very much flash-like. jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. So here, I am going to provide the best jQuery Image Gallery Plugins that will help you to add an artistic and professional image galleries and slide shows to your website.



1 - Galleria: 

Galleria is a JavaScript image gallery unlike anything else. It can take a simple list of images and turn it into a foundation of multiple intelligent gallery designs, suitable for any project. Galleria clocks around 5k daily downloads, making it one of the most popular JavaScript galleries around. This site is now dedicated to version 1.2, currently in beta development at GitHub. Stable release is set to September 2010.

2 - Supersized: 

Supersized is a full-screen background slideshow jQuery plugin. It re-sizes images to fill browser while maintaining image dimension ratio. It cycles images/backgrounds via slideshow with transitions and preloading. It's navigation controls allow for pause/play and forward/back.

3 - Image Flow: 

ImageFlow is a picture gallery, which allows an intuitive image handling. The basic idea is to digitally animate the thumbing through a physical image stack. That intuitive handling is automatically caused by the metaphorical use of the well known process of thumbing through.

4 - GalleryView: 

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

5 - Easy Slider - Numeric Navigation jQuery Slider: 

The Easiest jQuery Plugin For Sliding Images and Content. The features are: auto slide, continuous sliding, "go to first" and "go to last" button, hiding controls, optional wrapping markup for control buttons, vertical sliding, multiple sliders on one page, numeric navigation (as an alternative to next/previous buttons), continuous scroll instead of jumping to the first (or last) slide.

6 - Sliding Boxes and Captions with jQuery: 

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. From this basic idea we can play around with animations of the sliding element to either show or cover up the viewing area, thus creating the sliding effect.

7 - jQuery Cycle Plugin: 

The jQuery Cycle Plugin is a slideshow plugin that supports many different types of transition effects. It supports pause-on-hover, auto-stop, auto-fit, before/after callbacks, click triggers and much more. It also supports, but does not require, the Metadata Plugin and the Easing Plugin.