Similar to Lightbox, FancyBox, a jQuery powered image zooming script, zooms the images with very nice loading and zoom-in / zoom-out effects.

Features:

• Automatically scales large images to fit in window
• Adds a nice drop shadow under the full-size image
• Image sets to group related images and navigate through them

More detailes here:

http://fancy.klade.lv/

There are lots of nice application written in jQuery. Galleria is a javascript image gallery written in jQuery. It loads the images one by one from an unordered list and displays thumbnails when each image is loaded. It will create thumbnails for you if you choose so, scaled or unscaled, centered and cropped inside a fixed thumbnail box defined by CSS. The core of Galleria lies in it’s smart preloading behaviour, snappiness and the fresh absence of obtrusive design elements. Use it as a foundation for your custom styled image gallery.

Above is a demonstration shows you some more advanced effects you can accomplish with the Galleria plugin. The history object is also active that you can click the back button in your browser and bookmark a page. The next and previous links are simple to create since the galleria object has two public functions for traversing the images in your list.

The image transition manager is a javascript library based on scriptaculous and prototype. It supports several image transitions, such as fading, appearing, sliding, growing and shrinking. Because it uses the unobtrusive javascript technique, no inline javascript is needed and hyperlinks still function when javascript is disabled.

The image transaction manager features:

• 8 (more to come) image transition effects
• Visible image preloading
• Unobstrusive javascript (no inline javascript in you html-document)
• Easy to use Transition object
• Corssbrowser: tested in Firefox 2.x, Opera and IE6/7
• No CSS involved

Demo

Monoslideshow is a Flash® slideshow to view your images in a web page. It can be placed on every website, in whatever size you want and filled with whatever content you like. It's designed for maximum flexibility, whether you want to have a professional looking portfolio, or just an image rotator on your website.

Features:

• Resize and position everything to suit your needs
• Color every object in the slideshow
• Performs professional transitions, including the Ken Burns effect
• Contains high quality typefaces
• Create your own water mark
• Supports sound and music
• Monoslideshow talks XML, so it's easily integrated in your existing site

You can buy a license to use Monoslideshow for $19.95.

What is it ?
Using mootools v1.11, this javascript gallery and slideshow system allows you to have simple and smooth (cross-fading...) image galleries, slideshows, showcases and other cool stuff on your website...

Lightview was built to change the way you overlay content on a website.

• Clean: Designed to compliment your content.
• Fast: Smart image preloading.
• Easy to customize: You don't even have to know CSS.
• Rounded: Adjustable rounded corners, without PNGs.
• Smart resizing: Content will always fit on your screen.
• Custom events: Using Prototype 1.6
• Slideshow: One button slideshow.
• Effects: Using Scriptaculous.
• Works on all modern browsers

Requitments:

Prototype and Scriptaculous

Phatfusion Multibox is a mootools powered lightbox that supports images, flash, movies, mp3, html.

Features:

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.

XML Flash galleries are very easy to use & update. When there is a flickr support too, than it is great as it will be totally automated.

Polaroid Gallery is a free flash gallery with splash effect that can get the image data from an XML file or a flickr account.

Pictures is automatically scaled, centered and smoothed when they are loaded. Splash loading effect is totally random, this makes the look of the gallery different every time it is loaded. Images can be dragged & dropped anywhere in the gallery.

Besides the image gallery SWF file, FLA source can be downloaded too.

TiltViewer is a free 3D Flash image viewer application with an impressive interface.
The application responds to the mouse movements and creates a full 3D effect with new image sets falling, old ones disappearing, zooming an image and flipping it to see the details.

Images can be added to the gallery from a XML file or a flickr account.

TiltViewer comes with 2 versions. A free version with a "TiltViewer" link and a Pro version which is paid with no links and more customization options.

P.S. This flash gallery is built with Away3D, a realtime 3D engine for Flash.