20 Free & Open Source Image Galleries for Web Designers



20 Free & Open Source Image Galleries for Web Designers

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Auto Slider

Style: Sleek and compact.

Function: Slide show feature and live text descriptions for each image are a major plus!



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Flash Gallery

Style: Sleek look that’s easy to modify with your own look.

Function: Supports different image dimensions, you don’t have to make them uniform, plus the thumbnails are created dynamically. Full-Screen mode is perfect for showcasing your design orphotography portfolio.



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Flickr Show

Style: Clean and modern.

Function: Pull photos from a Flickr set into a gallery with fun sliding action and slide show feature.



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E2 Gallery

Style: Adapt the look to your site.

Function: A little bulky, but this could be modified to fit your needs.



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Flash Flickr

Style: Just like Flickr, but flashier…

Function: A photo gallery made in Flex2/AS3 using Flickr API. This application let users to browse yourFlickr pictures, see your sets, tags and notes.



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Gallerific

Style: This gallery is really easy to customize — both style and layout.

Function: Use XML to pull images from a designated directory, use live text descriptions and break thumbnails into multiple groups for compact viewing.



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Free Flash

Style: Flashy and with that Lightbox style pop-up view look.

Function: Slide show feature, but images do take a little long to load.



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Galleria

Style: Simple and clean.

Function: Live text image descriptions.



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Highslide

Style: This is Lightbox but with various styling options to fit your needs.

Function: Works just like Lightbox.

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Imago

Style: The demos shown of this are not too pretty, but style this one right and it could be very nice!

Function: Pull images from a feed or your own gallery.



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Automatically Generate a Photo Gallery from a Directory of Images

Style: Has a Lightbox-like style, but with a simplified style.

Function: This PHP script pulls your full-size and thumbnail images from a designated directory, all you need to do to add or remove an image is to remove it from that directory.



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Minishowcase

Style: Again with the Lightbox overlay look.

Function: Pulls up images fast.



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Phat Fusion

Style: Elegant look, could be used for a small collection of images or modified into a cool navigation system.

Function: Neat expanding motion!



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Simple Viewer

Style: Thumbnails previews & i wouldn’t even change the large arrow navigation, think it’s pretty cool.

Function: Break thumbnails into multiple groups for compact viewing.



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Slide Viewer

Style: Motion and sleekness of a Flash gallery w/out any Flash.

Function: Just add your images into a designated gallery and the appropriate number of buttons are generated. Only downer for this one is all your images have to be scaled to the exact same size.



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Smooth Gallery

Style: Simple gallery with collapsible thumbnail views.

Function: Live text image descriptions, quick image loading and smooth image to image transition. I use this on my homepage!



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Space Gallery

Style: Think Mac OSX’s Time Machine.

Function: Cool 3-D effect, slick flip through image feel.



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Moo Tools

Style: Another Lightbox style image gallery using MooTools.

Function: Nothing fancy about this, a simple image viewer.



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Zen Photo

Style: Simple style allows for a completely customizable look.

Function: Image rating and comments.



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LightWindow

Style: We all know Lightbox, but LightWindow allows for many more options and endless customization!

Function: Use this for image galleries, video viewing, and to view an external site within your site. (check it out and that will all make sense.)



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