With jQuery image zoom plugins, you can create amazing jQuery image zoom effect with minimal coding effort. This is very useful if you have large images that will otherwise take up too much space on your web pages. Using jQuery zoom image effects is also an elegant way to show details e.g, in photographs, art or designs.
This post cover most of the jQuery plugins available to create image zoom effects on websites and blogs. If you don’t find what you need in this article to feature your images I recommend you check out some jQuery Sliders as they provide another great technique for showcasing images. This article was recently updated with more image jQuery zoom plugins, and we also checked all links.
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Collection of jQuery Image Zoom Effect Plugins
Epic Image Zoom – DOWNLOAD / DEMO
With this plugin you can add zoom-in functionality to any image with configurable magnification level and magnifier appearance. It provides built-in image preloading.
HoverEx – jQuery image hover animation plugin - DOWNLOAD / DEMO
HoverEx is a jQuery plugin for image hover animations.It contains over 36 animations and prepared 18 hover animation templates.It also support for image zoom and slider effect.You can use it to create unique animated effects effortlessly without any knowledge of jQuery.
Featured Image Zoomer – MORE INFO / DEMO
This script lets you view a magnified portion of any image upon moving your mouse over it. A magnifying glass appears alongside the image displaying the magnified area on demand. The user can toggle the zoom level by using the mousewheel. It’s great to use on product images, photos, or other images with lots of details you want users to be able to get into on command.
Smooth Zoom Pan – jQuery Image Viewer – DOWNLOAD / DEMO
This is a jQuery image viewer prepared to display product photos, maps or any image within custom small area. Can be configured and implemented in web pages with simple copy / paste steps. More than 30 parameters available to customize, yet a standard version can work simply with 2 values
jQuery Lensview Plugin – DOWNLOAD / DEMO
This zoom plugin has a magnifying glass effect whenever you hover over images. The lens can be configured with CSS. Other features of the plugin include overlays, callbacks, captions and zooming.
jQuery Image Zoom and Panning Plugin – DOWNLOAD / DEMO
This is a jQuery plugin that creates a zoom and panning effect on an image. The plugin requires two image versions, one small preview and one larger for zoom and panning. This is a nice way to view details on an image.
Image Power Zoomer – MORE INFO / DEMO
This is a jQuery plugin that adds a magnifying glass every image on your page. Allows users to zoom in on parts of the image, simply by moving the cursor.
Zoome – DOWNLOAD / DEMO
This jQuery plugin will let you zoom in or out of an image using your mouse wheel. Zoome features several hoover effects that include grayscale, blur and transparent.
jQuery Zoom – MORE INFO / DEMO
A plugin to enlarge images on mouseover or mousedown.
Image Effects Pack – jQuery Powered – DOWNLOAD / DEMO
A pack of premium image effects to enhance your website user experience.
jQuery gzoom plugin – MORE INFO / DEMO
Really nice image zoom plugin with the following features: click on plus and minus to zoom, drag the slider to zoom Zoom using mousewheel hover the image, Moving mouse hover the image change the pan, Click on the image to show in lightbox style
Zoomer – MORE INFO / DEMO
‘Zoomer’ is a JavaScript component authored by James Padolsey. “Zoomer” enables your users to closely inspect images by hovering their cursor over them. It’s been built as a robust, unobtrusive and highly customizable jQuery plugin.
Hover Zoom – MORE INFO / DEMO
The hover zoom effect basically reverse zooms an image while fading in a label on top of it when the mouse hovers over it. It makes for a pretty slick effect which could be used on thumbnails. As always, you can check out a demo or grab the source right here if you don’t want to read the entire tutorial.
AnythingZoomer jQuery Plugin – MORE INFO / DEMO
You have a small area. You mouse over it. An area pops up giving you a zoomed in closer look. This is a jQuery plugin that does it. I’m not going to tell you what you should use it for or elaborate use-case scenarios. Your own creativity can help you there.
Etalage – MORE INFO / DEMO
A ready to use jQuery image zooming plugin to present your images in the highest detail without leaving the page.
Simply link to the JavaScript and CSS files and apply it to your HTML element like other jQuery plugins. Customize the settings and CSS to match your style and purpose. Full documentation and examples included.
JQZoom – MORE INFO / DEMO
JQZoom is a javascript image magnifier built at the top of the popular jQuery javascript framework.jQzoom is a great and a really easy to use script to magnify what you want.
ImageLens – MORE INFO / DEMO
Use this jQuery plug-in to add lens style zooming effect to an image
jQuery Cycle plugin – MORE INFO / DEMO
This is a lightweight slideshow plugin that supports pause-on-hover, auto-stop, auto-fit, before/after callbacks, click triggers and many transition effects. The effects look very good!
Crop, labelOver and pluck – MORE INFO / DEMO
Crop-Gives your visitors the power to crop any image on the fly using JavaScript only. Also there are 2 other plugins: LabelOver and Pluck.
ImgAreaSelect – MORE INFO / DEMO
imgAreaSelect is a jQuery plugin for selecting a rectangular area of an image.
Jcrop – MORE INFO / DEMO
Jcrop is the quick and easy way to add image cropping functionality to your web application. It combines the ease-of-use of a typical jQuery plugin with a powerful cross-platform DHTML cropping engine that is faithful to familiar desktop graphics applications.
PHP & jQuery image upload and crop – MORE INFO / DEMO
Awesome solution for allowing users to upload and crop images on your site.
PanView – MORE INFO / DEMO
This plugin allows your visitors view details of a big image and move around with the mouse.
jQuery plugin : Fancy Zoom – MORE INFO / DEMO
This plugin is the jQuery version on the fancy zoom effect. This plugin is providing a smooth, clean, truly Mac-like effect, almost like it’s a function of Safari itself
Image Zoom 2.0 – MORE INFO / DEMO
This plug-in makes links pointing to images open in the “Image Zoom”. Clicking a link will zoom out the clicked image to its target-image. Click anywhere on the image or the close-button to zoom the image back in. Only ~3k minified.
Creating An Image Zoom And Clip Effect With jQuery – MORE INFO / DEMO
Good video tutorial showing you how to create an image zoom effect where you can select a region of an image and the image will automatically scale up to show the selected region.
jQuery PhotoShoot Plugin – MORE INFO / DEMO
The jQuery PhotoShoot plugin gives you the ability to convert any div on your web page into a photo shooting effect, complete with a view finder.
Jquery iviewer – MORE INFO / DEMO
JQuery.iviewer is a jquery plugin used to load and view image in container with ability to zoom image and to drag it with mouse in container.
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Thanks for the list … !!!
I was wondering if you might consider adding SwinxyZoom it’s very touch friendly and will hopefully compliment the great zoom effects already listed
Swinxy, your site is broken. It doesn’t even allow me to apply for a “commons” license. Since I’ve been burned dozens of times attempting to purchase low-price products (some are just plain garbage, but the demo looks nice), there’s no way I intend to even consider using your plugin unless I’ve downloaded it and played around first.
And, in fact, the demo looks great. Hope it eventually works out for you.
Hi CodeTech, thanks for taking the time to click the link and try the demo and appologies for the creative commons link being down, the link is now back online.
thanks for this collection but do you know any zoom plugin for jquery zoom image like ebay ?
thank you
Thankyou for image zoom.
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