There’s no doubt that with those nifty javascript frameworks like jQuery, creating a nice image gallery or slideshow has become quite easier but still they are far behind the way interface can be built using Flash. Here are 25 really amazing flash based image gallery scripts that provide not only nice user interface but are free and easy to adapt into your website.
1. Polaroid Gallery
Polaroid is an amazing gallery for displaying your photos in an unusual way. It places images as if they are actually lying on table such that you can drag and change their position. To view image in full, double click any image. And it stores the data about images in XML file.
2. Flash Gallery
Flash gallery is a lightweight and easy to deploy flash photo gallery. It uses XML file to store information about images to be displayed.
3. dfgallery
This amazing flash image gallery is not only good for its interface but also for its customization options. It has an amazing theme engine built to support custom themes with multiple skins for each. The administration console built on CodeIginter lets you manage multiple galleries and albums of different types.
4. PostcardViewer
PostcardViewer will place your images like those postcard or notices pasted onto wall. You can navigate through images using mouse or cursor keys on keyboard. It offers a lot of options to choose the way in which images to be displayed are provided ranging from Picasa to custom PHP script.
5. SimpleViewer
SimpleViewer is a lightweight easy to configure flash gallery that provides an intuitive way to navigate through images using mouse scroll button or cursor keys.
6. TiltViewer
This one is an amazing image gallery with nice 3D effects. You can load images even from your Flickr stream or use an XML file.
7. AutoViewer
Autoviewer displays images in a linear sequence with captions. It is essentially designed for hands-free image viewing experience.
8. Free Flash Photo Album 2
This is a free, easy to install and configure flash image gallery and uses XML file to store information about images.
9. Photo Viewer
PhotoViewer is simple yet impressive flash image gallery. Uses XML as data store.
flShow Carousel is a little Flash movie that you can use to enhance your web pages presenting your images with a nice and stylish carousel effect.It is light and easy to configure by means of an external xml file.
10. Flash Gallery
Flash Gallery is a free application that allows you to create a slideshow on your website easy and fast. Just embed it into your website and script will automatically form a slideshow from a specified folder or from Flickr photostream.
11. Spread Photo Gallery
This one is like Polaroid gallery above but provides a different and pleasing interface to show images along with captions.
12. Fisheye Photo Gallery
13. Circular Photo Gallery
As its name suggests, thumbnails are displayed in continuously scrolling circular bar that slows down on hover.
14. Stack Photo Gallery
Display your images in a nice stack using this flash gallery.
15. Image Gallery v1.0
This script provides you with a lot of options like multiple album support, flickr and picasa integration and also provides with rich set of transition effects. Download