JQuery is known for its flexibility and many uses, but some of the neatest applications avaliable are those that include images.  With the wide variety of tools out there right now, you are able to do a lot of neat stuff with jquery to enhance your sites images and even add that “x factor” to captivate your sites visitors. Below i have gather a small group of JQuery image plugins that are very cool and very useful on any website.  Take a look and see what you think!

Pikachoose (recommended)

Pikachoose is a lightweight Jquery plugin that allows easy presentation of photos with options for slideshows, navigation buttons, and auto play.

Slides

Slides is a crazy simple slideshow plugin for jQuery. With features like looping, auto play, fade or slide transition effects, crossfading, image preloading, and auto generated pagination.

Avia Slider

AviaSlider is a jQuery slideshow plugin with unique transition effects.

Slidy

jQuery Slidy is a plugin that generates a customizable transitions automatically.

Booklet

Booklet is a jQuery plugin for displaying images and more in a book format with a turning page effect.

MobilySelect

MobilySelect is jQuery plugin (2kB) that replaces one collection of items with another.

Face Detector

Face Detection is an impressive plugin that does just what its name suggests. It detects faces in photos.

Final Thoughts …

Didn’t see your favorite JQuery plugin on this list?  Feel free to leave a comment below with your thoughts and opinions about your favorite JQuery plugin and what makes them work for you!