CMD+Shift Design
Liz Andrade
Designer of print and web. Podcaster, Blogger, internet nerd and crazy cat lady.
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Auto Slider
Style: Sleek and compact.
Function: Slide show feature and live text descriptions for each image are a major plus!
Flash Gallery
Style: Sleek look that’s easy to modify with your own look.
Function: Supports different image dimensions, you don’t have to make them uniform, plus the thumbnails are created dynamically. Full-Screen mode is perfect for showcasing your design or photography portfolio.
Flickr Show
Style: Clean and modern.
Function: Pull photos from a Flickr set into a gallery with fun sliding action and slide show feature.
E2 Gallery
Style: Adapt the look to your site.
Function: A little bulky, but this could be modified to fit your needs.
Flash Flickr
Style: Just like Flickr, but flashier…
Function: A photo gallery made in Flex2/AS3 using Flickr API. This application let users to browse your Flickr pictures, see your sets, tags and notes.
Gallerific
Style: This gallery is really easy to customize — both style and layout.
Function: Use XML to pull images from a designated directory, use live text descriptions and break thumbnails into multiple groups for compact viewing.
Free Flash
Style: Flashy and with that Lightbox style pop-up view look.
Function: Slide show feature, but images do take a little long to load.
Galleria
Style: Simple and clean.
Function: Live text image descriptions.
Highslide
Style: This is Lightbox but with various styling options to fit your needs.
Function: Works just like Lightbox.
Imago
Style: The demos shown of this are not too pretty, but style this one right and it could be very nice!
Function: Pull images from a feed or your own gallery.
Automatically Generate a Photo Gallery from a Directory of Images
Style: Has a Lightbox-like style, but with a simplified style.
Function: This PHP script pulls your full-size and thumbnail images from a designated directory, all you need to do to add or remove an image is to remove it from that directory.
Minishowcase
Style: Again with the Lightbox overlay look.
Function: Pulls up images fast.
Phat Fusion
Style: Elegant look, could be used for a small collection of images or modified into a cool navigation system.
Function: Neat expanding motion!
Simple Viewer
Style: Thumbnails previews & i wouldn’t even change the large arrow navigation, think it’s pretty cool.
Function: Break thumbnails into multiple groups for compact viewing.
Slide Viewer
Style: Motion and sleekness of a Flash gallery w/out any Flash.
Function: Just add your images into a designated gallery and the appropriate number of buttons are generated. Only downer for this one is all your images have to be scaled to the exact same size.
Smooth Gallery
Style: Simple gallery with collapsible thumbnail views.
Function: Live text image descriptions, quick image loading and smooth image to image transition. I use this on my homepage!
Space Gallery
Style: Think Mac OSX’s Time Machine.
Function: Cool 3-D effect, slick flip through image feel.
Moo Tools
Style: Another Lightbox style image gallery using MooTools.
Function: Nothing fancy about this, a simple image viewer.
Zen Photo
Style: Simple style allows for a completely customizable look.
Function: Image rating and comments.
LightWindow
Style: We all know Lightbox, but LightWindow allows for many more options and endless customization!
Function: Use this for image galleries, video viewing, and to view an external site within your site. (check it out and that will all make sense.)
Great collection, will bookmark!
posted on November 17th, 2008 at 9:21 PMThank you for putting this together, it’s a great collection!
posted on November 18th, 2008 at 8:10 PMyay! Thanks for coming to the site!
posted on November 18th, 2008 at 8:24 PMwow great collection thanks
posted on November 19th, 2008 at 6:24 AMThis was great! I am putting together a gallery for one of my clients and haven’t found anything that I thought would work. Just checked out your blog and now I have found 3 good candidates. Thanks again!
posted on November 19th, 2008 at 11:25 PMWhat about tiltviewer??? It’s got a great 3D style interface… I have it on a couple of my sites.
http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/tiltviewer/app/
posted on January 22nd, 2009 at 11:51 PMthats pretty crazy
posted on January 23rd, 2009 at 12:39 AMNice list. Thanks a bunch
posted on January 23rd, 2009 at 12:30 PMreally like this list for images thx
posted on February 23rd, 2009 at 4:51 PMLove your stuff…
posted on July 8th, 2009 at 6:54 AMThis is exactly what I have been looking for. Was going to ask in one of the forums for a Lightbox alternative (Lightbox doesn’t seem to work well with IE6) but this saves me the trouble and gives me a far more complete answer than I would have received. Thank you!
posted on July 10th, 2009 at 4:25 AMglad this was helpful John!
posted on July 10th, 2009 at 12:10 PMThis one gets a 5 very goods out of five! A very useful group… and it will save many hours of research… Already gave it a tweet!
Mike
posted on July 13th, 2009 at 10:02 PMGreat pieces of Art.
posted on July 30th, 2009 at 3:46 AMthanks for the collection, helped me alot !!
posted on November 4th, 2009 at 9:07 AMthanks a lot , very cool collections!
posted on November 11th, 2009 at 8:58 AMeasy and pretty.
posted on January 29th, 2010 at 4:12 AMAnyone knows an Open Source Image Gallery with the option to vote on images?
posted on January 29th, 2010 at 4:35 AMHave to say this is one of my favourite most useful posts I have seen all year! I know its only one month in, but I do read a LOT of posts (check @topleftdesign on Twitter to see what I mean)
Well done and thanks for the hard work you put into this.
posted on February 1st, 2010 at 8:07 AMglad everyone is still finding this post useful! Thanks so much for all the stumbling, tweeting, etc!
posted on February 1st, 2010 at 1:43 PMThanks for an amazing collection! Very inspiring! I wish I could create something like this via the cms for flash from flashmoto.
posted on February 19th, 2010 at 7:42 AMIt’s really great post, nice blog..I would like to appreciate your work and would like to tell to my friends.
posted on March 31st, 2010 at 8:16 AMSome really great photo galleries here. Thank you for sharing.
posted on May 21st, 2010 at 6:29 PMThanks for an amazing collection! Very inspiring! I wish I could create something like this via the cms for flash from flashmoto.
posted on July 9th, 2010 at 12:37 AMNice list. Thanks a bunch
posted on July 9th, 2010 at 1:11 AMAuto Slider – i vote it. I using it in my project :)
posted on May 9th, 2011 at 3:26 AM