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A few months ago I have presented you free web sites to help you to direct your blog or your site, but also to make nice creations with harmonious colors.

Well, I'm back with a new selection !

A selection of sites which suggest you to organize images of your blog or your site in more or less original way through free scripts in JavaScript.

Most are dedicated to image gallery creation, others will allow you to add many effects to your images.

Come on, we begin with CVI projects.

Developped by Christian Effenberger,CVI projects is a website that offers you scripts in JavaScript to add nice effects on your photo such as :

shiftzoom.js : a script to add zoom and pan functionality to oversized images on your webpages



busy.js : it allows you to add/remove loading indicators to html elements (or viewport) on your webpages



sphere.js : a script to add a spherical picture effect to images on your webpages



corner.js : it helps you to add corners (and also shading and shadow)



instant.js : it allows you to add an instant picture effect (including tilt) to images



bevel.js : it help you to add bevels (and also shading, shining and glowing) to images on your webpages



reflex.js : a script to add a Cover Flow on your images



filmed.js : a script to add film strip and shadow to images



etc. (complete list here)

The effects are simple, but it's a good alternative if you don't want to edit your images in Gimp, Photoshop or other software... Each script runs on Mozilla Firefox 1.5 +, Opera 9 +, Safari and Internet Explorer 6 +. You have also the opportunity to test these different effects by clicking here.


We continue with :

SmoothGallery : a script based on Mootools and developped by Jonathan Schemoul that allows you to have simple and smooth (cross-fading...) image galleries, slideshows, showcases and other cool stuff on your website... (demo - official website).




Slideshow2! : a script that allows you to stream and animate the presentation of images on your website with differents effects (demo - official website).




Carousel.us : a script in JavaScript that allows you to create a carousel of photos in 3D and add text on each of them. It uses either the prototype.js and scriptaculous.js or mootools.js frameworks, but also PHP Easy Reflections v3 by Richard Davey. You can configure many parameters like opacity, height, position of the carousel... (demo - more information - official website)




MacStyleDock : a script proposed by the site Safarla to release in JavaScript a menu with the famous dock effect, well-known of Mac OS X (more information - official website).




Reflection.js 2.0 : a cross-browser script to add reflections to images on your webpage. It works in all the major browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera and even Google Chrome ( for testing it - more info - official website).



Galleria : this javascript image gallery is 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. (demo 1 - demo 2 - official website - Galleria on Google code).




Highslide.js : this site offer a Web 2.0 approach to popup windows. It streamlines the use of thumbnail images and HTML popups on web pages (official website).



And we finish this small selection with :

Image Flow, a script in JavaScript which displays your photos in the style of Apple through to the CoverFlow effect. It's compatible with many web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome... (demos - more infos - official website)



See you soon for a new selection !