jQuery Visage provides a stable, robust, styleable, customizable (you can reprogram many aspects of its behavior) and clean way to display a series of images in a lightbox-like way.
Plugin is customizable through provided configuration options and API hooks.
jQuery HeapShot plugin is an image gallery plugin with a particular effect. Also plugin has some options to customize.
kGallery is a gallery written on jQuery library. Advantage of this gallery is ability to work stable with hundreds of pictures or with big pictures, without freezing browser.
This effect is achieved by retrieving the list of images from external source (JSON or XML) and downloading pictures gradually until slideshow is playing, not all in ones.
Gallerie is a jQuery plugin that offers a basic lightbox-like gallery viewer of a collection of images.
It features a simple overlay with a scrollable thumbnail list, image loading hint, as well as an image caption and index. The overlay thumbnails automatically scroll with the user's mouse and can be activated by click or custom event.
Shadowbox is a lightbox plugin that supports all of the web's most popular media publishing formats.
Shadowbox is highly customizable and website authors can showcase a wide assortment of media in all major browsers without navigating users away from the linking page.
Responsive Thumbnail Gallery is a jQuery plugin for creating image galleries that scale to fit their container.
Justified Gallery is a jQuery plugin that allows you to create an high quality justified gallery of images.
A common problem, for people who create sites, is to create an elegant image gallery that manages the various sizes of images. Flickr and Google+ manage this situation in an excellent way, the purpose of this plugin is to give you the power of this solutions, with a new fast algorithm.
Photoset Grid is a simple jQuery plugin to arrange images into a flexible grid, based on Tumblr's photoset feature.
Photoset Grid can be used with lightbox and can be add to Tumblr Themes.
SuperBox is a new jQuery plugin that takes the whole 'image' and 'lightbox' one step further, reducing the JavaScript and image load dependence to make lightboxing a thing of the past! Using HTML5 data-* attributes, responsive layouts and jQuery.
SuperBox works wonders as a static image gallery, which you can click to reveal a full version of the image.
A nice tutorial from Codrops on how to create a thumbnail grid with an expanding image preview similar to the effect seen on Google Images.
The idea is to open a preview when clicking on a thumbnail and to show a larger image and some other content like a title, a description and a link.
Unslider is a lightweight jQuery slider plugin that just slides content without fancy effect and unnecessary markup. It's fluid, flexible and minimal.
Pikachoose is a lightweight jQuery slideshow plugin, with many features. jCarousel integrates smoothly with PikaChoose to give your gallery simple and effective carousel. PikaChoose has API hooks for integrating lightboxes and other things.
fullsizable is a jQuery plugin to take full available browser space for image viewing. Also supports the native HTML5 fullscreen API in modern browsers.
h5-lightbox is a jQuery lightbox built on the HTML5 data attribute. It uses HTML5 data attribute to add a larger version of an image then displays that image in a simple lightbox.
