If you are looking for a really new and unique way to create a nice slideshow for your website, then you should take a look at Floom. On the source site you will find two way to set Floom up: One is the object way, where you specify the image url and the caption using the key-value notation. The second one is by simply passing a element collection, where the passed element has to be the actual image collection. Sounds interesting? It is! So have a look:

Demo: http://nouincolor.com/floom/1.0/Demos
URL: http://blog.olicio.us/2009/07/25/floom/

Zoomy.js is a Prototype class that allows you to easily create image gallery with simple magnification of images. This zooming feature is customizable as pop-up & overlaying boxes. Features:

* display clickable thumbnails and zoomed image when you click it.
* images are preloaded, there is no delay when you zoom.
* display caption and close button (optional)
* open new window from a link to the caption
* zoomed images may be dragged.

If Zoomy.js is actually what you’ve been looking for, find out more by visiting the source post and bookmark it for future refference :)

prettyPhoto is an alternative jQuery lightbox, which is developed by Stéphane Caron. It has better animation FX, fullscreen image feature, enhanced title and caption (support html code). This jQuery lightbox also display box that is designed to auto fit the size of the photo inside it. There are also navigation link, and counter options for multiple photos in a gallery.

This plugin works in the following browsers:

* Firefox 3.0 (Mac/PC/Linux)
* Firefox 2.0 (Mac/PC)
* Safari 3.1.1 (Mac)
* Internet Explorer 6.0 (PC)
* Internet Explorer 7.0 (PC)

To use is easy. Just include the jQuery library, prettyPhoto javascript and the prettyPhoto CSS in the head of the page(s) where you want to use prettyPhoto.

The demo of prettyPhoto includes: galleries, single image usage or flash content gallery. You can read the source page to learn the installment and customization details if you find this useful!

Here we have another JS gallery script called Pirobox with the difference hat Diego Valobra who wrote that script is not a programmer but a webdesigner with a big immagination and a bit passion for programming.
In fact, if you are a javascript developer, take a look at his script and you can see that he used a few tricks to get his goal to create a good looking jQuery gallery.

CrossSlide is an alternative way to present slide show that animates pictures using jQuery plugin instead of conventional Flash. Fully tested on major browsers, it relies on the browser for positioning, scaling and cropping images, through CSS and the DOM. Accordingly it is depended mainly on how the browser and the underlying graphics platform optimize these operations.

CrossSlide has several picture effect features, they are:

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ShadowBox is a JavaScript media viewer application that supports all of the web’s most popular media publishing formats including images, QuickTime, Windows Media Player, Flash, Flash video, HTML, and even external web pages. In fact, you can customize the skin of Shadow Box with CSS.

Why ShadowBox?

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site>> http://www.flowplayer.org/tools/scrollable.html
tutorial demo>> http://www.flowplayer.org/tutorials/scrollable-view.html

Tero Piirainen has created a handy Flowplayer tool that scrolls playlist of several videos using jQuery. The tool is pretty light, which is wrapped in 3.9 Kb javascript file. The features are:

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Galleriffic works with jQuery-1.2.6 plugin, to deliver a high volume of photos. It is brought to you by Trent Foley. All photos are set in a neat grid and at the other section you can see the full zoomed preview of the selected photo. There are optional elements of selectors needed for a full-featured setup of Container Sel. The selectors are: controls, image, title, description, download, and thumbs.

Available features of Galleriffic plugin comes in:

* Smart Preloader
* Thumbnail Navigation (with pagination)
* Bookmark-friendly URLs
* Slideshow (auto-updates URL bookmarks)
* Image fade transitions
* Optional download link
* Flexible configuration
* Auto degrade when javascript is inactive or not available

You can initialize the gallery by calling the galleriffic init function, passing in the thumbnails container selector and an options. Set these default functions based on what has been stated at the source page to create your own Galleriffic. ;) Now you can have massive numbers of photo gallery without feeling worry that your picture thumbnails would clutter the web design layout ;)