September 4, 2010

Highslide JS : A lightbox (a popup frame that opens within the active browser window) image viewer.
Unique feature: Its more than just a image viewer. Its got an image gallery and you can display anything (HTML,flash,embed youtube videos etc) within the popup frame.

MojoZoom: Shows an enlarged view of a specific rectangular area on mouse hover within a non-obstrusive pop-up frame.

TJPZoom: Enlarged view of a rectangular area within the image frame.
Unique feature: Optimizes viewing of high resolution images.

PanoJS: Zoom and pan interface for high resolution images.

Google maps: A trick to use google maps as an image viewer. Pretty cool!

Ajax zoom: JQuery and PHP based image viewer. Got a lot of features like zooming using mouse wheel and zoom-to-point, panning using mouse drag, lightbox, image gallery, slideshow, image map, horizontal,vertical and tile based thumbnail browsing, image zoom based on user selected rectangular area... and more. Its got a toolbar for using each option mentioned above. It can be integrated with popular CMS easily. Free for non-commercial personal use.
Unique feature: The ability to display high resolution images by splitting the images into smaller tiles.It also comes with a script to help you do batch conversions.

gzoom plugin: Unique features - Uses a slider to zoom, mouse postion to pan and displays lightbox on clicking image.

PZ3: Pure CSS,XHTML-valid mouse hover image enlarger with image caption.

dynamicdrive.com: Show enlarged image within a popup frame on mouse hover.

Also found a couple of CSS based image galleries: cssplay.co.uk and devirtuoso.com

Magic Zoom: Shows an enlarged view of a specific rectangular area on mouse hover within a non-obstrusive pop-up frame.

Magic touch: Some features are zooming using mouse click or mouse wheel, flash fullscreen view, image map, image controls.

Zoomify: Unique feature: Apt for viewing high resolution images.