Glossy.js allows you to add shading, shadows and rounding corner effect to images.

This is a very useful method if you want to use the same effect for all images in some part of your website. You won’t need to use an image editing software every time. Your images will stay as the original and you can apply another effect later on. 

How to use Glossy.js?

• Insert the glossy.js in your code
• Add the class "glossy" to your images

Gloosy.js works in all major browsers. If not supported by a browser, it downgrades itself without creating any errors.

jQuery Cycle plugin is a lightweight plugin which lets users to create animated slideshows.

jQuery already has slide plugins and this plugin covers most of the effects and some effects are based on other jQuery plugins.

The Cycle Plugin is split into two parts: the core engine and the transition definitions. The core engine provides the ‘fade’ transition effect and all the logic needed for defining and using custom transitions. The Transition pack includes all of the pre-defined transition effects for the Cycle Plugin.

Slideshow effects includes:

• pause-on-hover
• auto-stop,
• auto-fit
• before/after callbacks
• click triggers
• and many transition effects

photoDiary, is a flash web application which lets users to create photo blogs.

Blog owners can upload new photos through an administrator interface easily. Maybe, the most attractive feature of photoDiary is the commenting system. Visitors can leave their comments with a post-it like virtual-papers on any part of the photo.

Visitors can navigate through the photos with the back & forward feature, remove all comments with 1 click or send an e-mail to the blog owner.

P.S. There is an English version besides the original Italian version in the product website.

Shadowbox is a cross-browser, cross-platform Lightbox-like media viewer which supports all the commonly used media types like images, QuickTime, Windows Media Player, Flash, Flash video, and even external web pages.

Shadowbox can be used easily with the popular JavaScript frameworks as it already has adapters for jQuery, Prototype + Scriptaculous, Ext.js & Yahoo! User Interface Library.

Flash Video is supported via JW FLV Player. Although many types of video are supported, for compatibilty reasons, Shadowbox advises that Flash Video to be used.

Alen Grakalic from CSS Globe has a very nice solution for styling image links.

What is it?

Image Link is an unobtrusive JavaScript code that enables you to apply additional styling to your image links. The mouseover state of the JavaScript displays an image over the original image.

Script, automatically creates a span element that is placed above the image and assigns the css class for it.

4images is an image gallery software which is being used & developed further for years. Having such an experience, 4images has many features and can be called nearly a bug free software.

With its user-centered logic, 4images is more like a social image gallery or image portal software. Visitors can register to become users, create unlimited galleries, comment or vote each others images.

Some features of 4images:

• Extensive, password protected adminstration area to configure and control the whole gallery system
• Multi language support
• RSS-Feeds (latest images of the gallery, latest images of a category, latest comments of an image)
• Unlimited categories and subcategories
• Automatic thumbnail generation
• Download selected files as zip-archive
• Extensive user administration including registration
• "Who is online" function
• Newsletter function
• Easy to customizable layout via templates

There is a large user community behind 4images which contributes to the software with extra modules, templates & more.

Vecteezy is an index of free vector graphics available for download by some of the best artists around the world.

With over 200 free vector images, Vecteezy is updated frequently with new graphics.

Vector images can be searched & sorted by file type (Adobe Illustrator, Coreldraw..), categories, licences or download, rating numbers.

Zenphoto is a php - mysql image & video gallery script which has all the features an image gallery must have. It is built with simplicity in mind, this makes Zenphoto is a very easy to use  gallery script both for users & admins.

Some features of Zenphoto:

• Image & video albums + sub-albums
• Ftp or admin panel uploading of images, videos
• Commenting
• Tags
• RSS feed
• Powerful search
• Plugins support (Wordpress plugins, Facebook integration & more)
• Themes support

Zenphoto has an active user community where support can be found for this nice php mysql image & video gallery script.

As there are very nice flash & ajax image galleries, this flash gallery application is a bit different from the others as the galleries are created from a desktop application and then uploaded to your website.

Slideroll Gallery AV (formerly Picklish), is a flash image & video gallery tool that lets you create your galleries from a simple drag and drop interface. PC users can also record their own narration with their galleries.

Snarf photos feature of Slideroll Gallery AV lets you to download any images from a website or a rss feed directly into your gallery.

Look and feel of the galleries can be customized and after uploading the image & video gallery to your website, html editing is possible for any tweakings needed.

3d package is a 3d-box graphic generator. 3d package lets you instantly create 3d-box images online, free!

Just upload pictures for cover and sides and then get 3d-box in you favorite image format (JPG, GIF, PNG supported).