Apr 16
15 Unique Flash Gallery Techniques
At Best Web Gallery, I occasionally come across good Flash sites. In this post, I want to feature the best photographer sites (with amazing photos and galleries) that I’ve stumbled upon. Here are 15 sites that demonstrate excellent use of Flash technology to create beautiful photo galleries. Bookmark this page now if you like commercial photography or need to find inspiration to create your own Flash gallery.
1. James Day
With minimalism approach, James Day puts the focus on his beautiful photos. When mousing over the text menu, a preview of the project will slide up.
When you click on the large image, it allows you to zoom in and out.
The navigation at the bottom gives you quick access to the menus, turn thumbnails on/off, navigate the projects, and enter fullscreen mode.
2. Anders Bergh
Bergh loads all images on the homepage.
Click on any thumbnail to see an awesome fly-out effect.
When viewing a large image, it gives you options to go next/previous, zoom in/out, toggle slideshow, or back to thumbnail mode.
3. Jeremy Cowart
No fancy navigation menus or marketing text when you land on the homepage of Cowart’s site. You’ll know what to click once you enter the site.
Love the loading animation!
Click either the left or right side of the viewing area to navigate through the photos. Notice how beautifully the grayscaled image, currently being viewed, transition into a color image?
The title bar at the bottom displays the photo count and title. You can click on the thumbnail button to view photos in thumbnail mode. Click on the fullscreen button to toggle fullscreen mode.
Extra effort is put into providing a keyboard control. You can use the specified keys to navigate around the site.
4. Ciriljazbec Photography
My first impression of this site was: "Wow! Impressive photos!". Ciriljazbec definitely knows how to sell his skills by featuring a series of full size (and high resolution) images on the homepage.
When you are viewing the photos, it puts the main focus on the image and hide everything else. Moving the mouse around allows you to scroll the image.
On the right side of the navigation bar, you have the options to toggle: Slideshow on/off, Fit in/out, and Move Photo on/off.
5. Nil
Another nice loading animation.
The photo thumbnails are scattered out randomly. Click on the thumbnails to view the larger photo. The photos you’ve viewed are tinted with pink color.
When you click on the "align photos" button, it will align the scatter photos in a line. You can click on the thumbnails or drag the black circle to navigate through the photos.
6. Jesus Vilamajo
The homepage of Vilamajo might look very plain, but click in the photography portfolio, you will discover its beauty.
The navigation bar at the bottom tells you how many photos are being loaded. As soon the photo is loaded, the tiny rectangle bar will become clickable.
The blue color indicates the photos you’ve viewed and yellow indicates the current viewing photo.
Click on the zoom button on the bottom left of the image to load a larger image.
7. Ad Vlemmix
Yet another boring homepage.
When you click on the portfolio link, it will automatically enter fullscreen mode. The photos are in grayscale and overlapping each other (it gives you a feeling that the photos are scattered on a table). Click on the photo to bring to front and turn to color mode.
8. Project 7-7
The homepage features a series of video clips in the background.
Once a thumbnail is clicked, a scaled up image of that thumbnail pops up. As soon as the high-res image is loaded, it will replace the scaled up image.
You can drag vectically or horizontally to navigate through the photos in the grid.
The top navigation allows you to quickly jump to different levels.
9. PMA | mis-arch
Be patient, go to the "Projects" section, watch as the thumbnails flow toward you and fade out repetitively in a cycle.
When you are viewing the large image, mouse over the title bar to see the project details. Mouse over the image title to see the thumbnails.
10. Dvein
Click on the circular thumbnails or text menu to open the project details.
The overall transition effect on this site is beautifully directed.
11. Thomas Spiessens Photography
See how a simple slideshow with pixelate transition can work out so nicely.
The sliding dock provides quick access to the high-res photos.
Don’t miss out on the tiny slideshow timer under the "Portfolio" button.
12. Javier Ferrer Vidal
The photo thumbnails look like they are flowing in the air.
Mousing over the thumbnail will blur it. When the larger photo is loading, the thumbnail of that photo will progressively turn into a negative image.
13. Jam3media
Jam3media creatively uses the thumbnails to form words.
14. Brook Pifer
15. Hello Design
Mouse over a thumbnail to display a series of project images like a carousel.
Click on the thumbnail to activate a slideshow.
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96 Fabiano Leal
March 12th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
I guess it’s just a nice visual effect and I like the impact it has.
95 best flash stock http://www.bestflashstock.com
February 13th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
Nice collection. You can find and buy great galleries for few $ on flash stock markets all over the web.
Check best flash stock site, that geathers best flash stock markets on one place, and browse for some great galleries there.
94 bosega
February 10th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Interesting galleries!
Here’s another flash gallery with page turning effect..link
93 Mishel
February 2nd, 2010 at 6:03 pm
I like Zen Flash Gallery - http://www.flash-gallery.com
92 steve http://www.photo-graffix.com
January 25th, 2010 at 3:54 am
Create your own flash image gallery, no flash skills needed.
91 Jarrett http://www.ellenkvam.com
January 22nd, 2010 at 11:29 pm
Flash website brings unique jewelry to the Unites States for the first time EVER. Recently http://www.ellenkvam.com was launched in the U.S. and now for the first time Norwegian silver jewelry is located on the shores of the greatest continent. Experience http://www.ellenkvam.com now or never.
90 vincentdresses http://www.hibridal.com
January 6th, 2010 at 1:50 am
喜欢你们的设计与技术，常来看看
89 Flash CMS http://www.flashmoto.com/
December 10th, 2009 at 8:28 am
These flash galleries and photographers websites are really amazing!
Thanks for this roundup.
88 Tim
November 30th, 2009 at 1:19 am
Hey Ash don’t just hate, Flash site are a lot of work, give credit where its due….good work on the galleries….if you cant code, chill, you will code AS3 some day!
87 jackie
October 31st, 2009 at 9:08 am
cool website…i pleasant when i visit their site!!