You can use Fancybox as a lightbox alternative on your website. FancyBox is tool for displaying images, html content and multi-media in a Mac-style “lightbox” that floats overtop of web page. It can be configured to use a single photo, gallery, ajax content, video or any html you can think of.
The lightbox photo will resize [...]

This jQuery plugin is great for displaying images in a slide show format. You can have multiple slideshows on the same page and it allows you to add a text overlay that fades in and fades out over the photos in the slide show. You can set the timing, text placeholder location and even the [...]

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Need to tweak a photo but don’t have access to Photoshop right now? Check out this free online drawing/image editing tool. Sumo paint is like having Photoshop online. By the way, you’ll want to check out the killer gallery of images created and edited online using Sumo.
Sumo Paint is a full featured photo editing / [...]

Many of us have image intensive websites, fortunately there are also jQuery plugins like Lazy Load. This interesting plugin will delay the loading of image and will also provide a smooth fade in effect as well.
Check out the Fade In Image Effect
Learn How to Use LazyLoader
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It delays loading of images in (long) web pages. [...]