Piecemaker is a free and open source Flash image slider that displays images with 3D slice effects.

It can be completely configured from a XML file like setting the tween type, distance, time, delay, etc. and doesn't require working with the .FLA source file.

The slider shows images almost instantly due to the external image loading feature and supports JPG, GIF, PNG formats.

Once hovered, it displays prev-next buttons and a play/pause option for easier browsing.

Images are defined inside the XML file and a description text for each of them can be mentioned (including links).

It is also possible to customize the styles of these descriptions via CSS.

Piecemaker can be downloaded from Activetuts+, a high-quality Flash tutorials community, which also shares the detailed story of the slider.

jbgallery is a feature-rich jQuery plugin for displaying multiple images or multiple galleries in a webpage.

It can run as a slideshow, a site's background, in a "dialog" mode or as a common pop-up.

The plugin's API allows controlling the features like prev-next, viewing a specific image, labels, timers and delays so easily. It also has callbacks on every step.

jbgallery can display thumbnails of the images and browsed via keyboard.

And, it comes with a Picasa adapter for displaying images from the service.

Nivo Slider is a lightweight (5kb compressed) jQuery plugin for creating good-looking image sliders.

It simply converts an element that wraps images into a slider and offers 9 unique transition effects.

The plugin can display prev-next buttons and a navigation to control the slides.

The transition to be used can be a single one or you can set Nivo Slider to randomly apply them.

Also, it is possible to define the number of slices, animation speed and pause period for maximum customization.

slideGallery is a MooTools plugin for creating customizable image carousels easily & quickly.

It converts any given unordered list into a slider & can be styled with CSS.

The plugin can display any defined number of images horizontally or vertically, auto-play them, have prev-next buttons and these functions can be configured more with:

• setting the class of prev-next elements
• speed and duration of slides
• transition to be used
• direction of the transitions
• & more..

slideGallery works in all major browsers including IE6.

jqFancyTransitions is a jQuery plugin for displaying images as a slideshow with fancy effects.

It has support for 3 transitions: wave, zipper & curtain but they can be diversified with the ability of setting the position & direction of the animations.

The slideshow has few other configuration options like:

• delay between transitions
• delay between strips
• number of strips
• title speed
• title opacity

Compared to many other slideshow scripts, jqFancyTransitions doesn't require an unordered list of items but, simply, needs an element wrapping the images.

Uniform is a jQuery plugin that enables you to control the look & feel of form elements (checkboxes, drop down menus, radio buttons & file upload inputs).

It is unobtrusive & works by hiding the original elements + replacing them with custom ones.

Uniform is very easy to use & can be set to convert every form element on the page or any specific ones.

The plugin has theming support & comes with a theme kit to quickly create unique forms.

bxGallery is a lightweight jQuery plugin for creating image galleries with thumbnails.

It requires images to be defined within an unordered list & converts them to a gallery with several options like:

• max width/height of images (will resize maintaining aspect ratio)
• thumbnail width & if it will be cropped to create a perfect square
• opacity of thumbnails
• loading text & image

The plugin also has an option for setting the position of the thumbnails (top-bottom-right-left).

blackbox is a MooTools plugin for creating slideshows from unordered lists.

The plugin is unobtrusive & displays images with fade in/ fade out effects.

The slideshow is controlled by simply hovering images where a simple start/stop controls appears.

It requires almost no configuration & has few optional settings like "the image to be displayed on initial load & duration of effects/transitions.

W-Script is an open source application which is originally aimed at creating "wallpaper download websites".

But, it is a very ideal resource for building any gallery-themed or image-oriented website like CSS galleries, photo galleries ,etc.

The application is built with PHP-MySQL & it can handle large number of images.

Some features of W-Script:

• unlimited categories, subcategories
• visitors can submit images (and optionally register)
• images can be rated & commented
• advanced search
• auto-thumbnails in various sizes

It has a Smarty-based template engine which makes creating new templates pretty easy.

Also, W-Script can be extended with modules like tag clouds, color browser, user stats or anything custom.

GaleriaSHQIP is a free PHP-MySQL image gallery script for easily displaying any number of images.

It has an admin panel to upload new images or delete/update the previous ones.

The script offers a simple interface for presenting images & upon-click, they can be viewed in their original sizes in a modal box (uses piroBox).

GaleriaSHQIP has a web-based installer for a quicker installation & has a built-in brute-force filter + various other security features.

Update (8th February 2010):

The application now has a new version with lots of features like tracking visitors/their actions, commenting, rating & more..