People want to display photos online, this is something that the internet offers people, and people want to take up the internet on this generous offer. People have family photos, vacation snapshots, creative works, and a ton of other kinds of images, and they want to send those images to other people.
In most cases, if someone has gone to an extreme to display their photographs professionally, they will most likely be looking for some method if displaying their images that doesn’t revolve around generic Social Media.
Being a photographer myself, displaying photographs is more than just showing them to people. It is a matter of colour, a matter of environment, and in the end, it is extremely important to display these photographs in an attractive way, something that will attract people to your images, and be happy to view them, and potentially promote and bookmark them.
Now, this goes to say that there are literally thousands of scripts available online for displaying images online. It is literally an endless supply of web-based galleries on the internet. So, which one to choose from then?
We have selected 10 professional scripts for appealing lightboxes, galleries, and slideshows that you can use to present your images online, and we will be unveiling more from time to time as we get the time to publish these articles more often, and of course, find more great scripts that will allow an artist to display photographs professionally online.
A quick note about publishing images online!
Publishing your images in a professional format can be influenced by quite a few factors. As much as these scripts are great, if you set a pink background, your images are going to look terrible. A very quick point of refrence about how to display images on a webpage, take Deviantart as a good reference point. Their grey color scheme is not by change. Grey is a neutral color, and it will make all colors in your images be interpreted naturally. If you set a black background, your images will “pop”. If you set a white background, this may make some color images appear dull. Take the time to experiment with color schemes, make sure that they work with your images. If you are looking to display your images online in a professional manner, this is a very important factor as to how successful you will be!
Minishowcase is a small and lightweight php/javascript online photo gallery that is powered by AJAX. It easily allows you display your images online professionally, without the hassle of any complex coding or databases, although you can feel free to code if you need to do so.
- A screenshot of MiniShowcase Photo Gallery in action
LightBox JS is a very simple and unobtrusive Javascript that is used to display your images professionally on the internet. This script is used to influence how images will be displayed on a pre-made website, and is installed quite easily in just a few quick steps.
- Lightbox JS Photo Gallery Script in action
Lightbox2 is a very simple and unobtrusive script that is used to display your photographs on a pre-made website. This script will allow you to display your images professionally using Javascript. This script sets up very easily, and works with all modern browsers.
- Lightbox2 Photo Gallery Script in action
TiltViewer is a free, and easily customizable flash image viewing application. This script will allow you to not only display your images on the web, but using the Flickr API, you can automatically import your images from Flickr to be displayed using this script.
This is one of the most unique and professional looking image gallery scripts that I have ever seen, personally, I have used this on a production site before, and it is very easy to maintain.
- TiltViewer Image Gallery Script in action
Simple Viewer is another very pretty Image Gallery script that is free, customizable, and displays images professionally using flash. This photo gallery script is a bit more simple than the above mentioned Tilt Viewer, and by all means less drastic, it allows you to display images on any webpage in a professional, intuitive, and simple way.
- Simple Viewer Image Gallery Script in action
PhotoEmbed is a free flash Image Gallery script and application that allows you to publish your images to the internet professionally for everyone to see. Navigation is simple, and customization is easy. There is an ad on for this image gallery script called PhotoAdmin, which is a CMS back end for this script that allows you to easily and quickly create galleries, however for those who are strapped for cash and after a free Image Gallery Script, this can easily be used without this add on.
- PhotoEmbed Image Gallery Script in action
ColorBox is a very simple, but quite stunning image gallery script for jQuery 1.3. This script is quite easy to install, it is basic, but very professional and intuitive at the same time. This Photo Gallery Script will allow you to display your images online, give that wow factor to those who are viewing your images, and of course, give you that warm and fuzzy feeling.
- ColorBox Image Gallery Script in action
MediaBoxAdvanced is a lightweight image gallery script that can be integrated into any website easily. It supports most online media formats, including jpg/png files, and even flash video! This photo gallery script supports cross-media sets, which will allow you to navigate from one item to another without closing the overlay.
- MediaBoxAdvanced Media Gallery Script in action
This unique slideshow and image gallery script is designed to be used on any PHP based website, along with Joomla and WordPress. This is a completely different kind of image gallery script compared to any others that we have included in this article, but it is a unique one that we believe many photographers and other creative artists may find a good use for. This script easily installs, and is very easy to customize and implement.
- Front Page Slideshow Image Gallery Script in action
We saved this script until last for the one simple reason that this is hands down the easiest, most professional looking Image Gallery script that I believe I have ever found. As much as this does not really fall into that script category, I believe that those who are looking for an image gallery to professionally show their images on the web are also looking for an all in one solution. This script speaks for itself really. It is just amazing. Easy to manage content (using WordPress Admin Panel), and you can also allow users to respond to your content as well. Simply the best of all Image Gallery Scripts that I have ever seen! We have even created our own tutorial on how to put this one together which is available by clicking the link to this theme.
- Gallery in action
Well, that was a long haul getting all of these Image Gallery scripts listed in here for you, just please take note of the following. These scripts were all developed by people who invested alot of time in making these for nothing financial in return. Some of these scripts have terms of use, including not tampering with any backlinks and so on and so forth. Please do not do anythying with these scripts that will make the developers efforts in vain. Even if you can, if you notice that any of these developers accept donations, please chip in. They work hard to bring these scripts to you, and even so much as saying thanks can go a long way. Enjoy these scripts! Please post any feedback below, or any other requests for scripts that you are aware of.
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