Nowadays it’s hardly possible to find a person in the Net who doesn’t have a website. Even if you have no any business online, you may easily create a personal website or a blog just for your soul where you may write about yourself, your family and even pets, express your thoughts and opinions on different issues. But what personal website can be without a photo gallery? If you want to share your pictures with your friends, you need an attractive Flash photo gallery to make the slideshow more dynamic, eye-catching and impressive.

In this roundup you will find the most impressive Flash galleries and javascript galleries handpicked from all over the Internet: from web based scripts to Flash components ready to be integrated into your website. You won’t need any programming skills to install or use it. Just embed it into your website and script will automatically form a slideshow from a specified folder or an XML files or from Flickr photostream. All these Flash galleries are free, so you may use them for any purposes.

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Polaroid Gallery

Polaroid Gallery is a free, open source flash gallery developed by Christopher Einarsrud. The script loads images and image titles dynamically from an external xml file or a flickr RSS feed. Then the script processes the data and creates an interactive flash gallery.

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Flash Photo Stack

Flash Photo Stack is a simple Flash template that enables you to click through a stack of your favorite photographs. Organize your pictures in such an attractive way to create a pleasant impression.

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Flash Page Flip Photo Gallery template for Picasa

This amazing Flash photo gallery looks like a real photo album we got used to keep in hands while watching paper photographs. You can even see and hear the pages flip.

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AutoViewer

AutoViewer is a free, customizable Flash image viewer designed to display a linear sequence of images and captions.
AutoViewer posseses the follwoing features: – Auto-Play allows you to view a gallery hands free; – Displays image captions and gallery title as a text overlay; – Intuitive image navigation via mouse and keyboard; – Interface rescales to fit any aspect ratio images and monitors; – Lightweight (11k); – Image pre-loading to prevent waiting for each image to load; – Cross platform – Windows/Macintosh (requires Flash 8 or higher); – Flash 8 detection.

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Carousel

You may easily enhance your web pages with this stunning Carousel 2.0 slideshow. Your images will be presented with the simple 3D effect. You may fully customize imafe titles, title box and loading messages.

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Galleria

Galleria is a javascript image gallery written in jQuery. It loads the images one by one from an unordered list and displays thumbnails when each image is loaded. It will create thumbnails for you if you choose so, scaled or unscaled, centered and cropped inside a fixed thumbnail box defined by CSS. So, you may create your own gallery style.

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Lightweight image gallery

Lightweight image gallery is a javascript gallery with thumbnails. It is characterized by the following features: no server-side scripting; super-fast browsing without fades; simple HTML with a list of images; lightweight, unobtrusive javascript to create thumbnails; CSS styling to create different layouts; degradable if javascript or images are disabled; cross-browser consistency.

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FlashGalleryGenerator

Here is one more Flash photo gallery the style of which can be easily customized to meet your preferences.

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Art Flash Gallery

This Flash photo gallery has been created by Flash-Gallery.com. It’s a free version that looks very atractive but unfortunately it has some limitations: 9 images maximum and it contains the copyright label.

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Flashmo 129 Circle Gallery

Arrange your photos in circle. It’s very easy with Flashmo 129 circle gallery. Adobe Flash CS3 (version 9) is required to edit the FLA file.

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3D Flash Galleries

Flashmo.com also provides free 5 astonishing 3D Flash galleries that will definitely add zest to your website. Here they are: 3D Curve Wall, 3D Thumbnail Box, Spiral Carousel XML, 3D Cylinder Box, 3D Sphere – Thumbnail Gallery. Their screenshots are presented below.

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photoDiary 1.0

photoDiary 1.0 is a web application developed by Webgriffe which lets you to easily publish a brand new photo blog on the web. The application is based on Flash. But due to the easy-to-use control panel you don’t need any Flash knowledge to manage your photos and present them in an attractive way.

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3D-Album component for Adobe Flex

3D-Album component for Adobe Flex. This 3D album component is based on the bellow “Building a 3D album with FIVe3D and TweenLite” tutorial

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3D Grid Photo Gallery

3D Grid Photo Gallery from Flashmo.

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Zen Flash Gallery

Zen Flash Gallery is a free Flash gallery, and that’s why has following limitations: 4 albums and 10 images in album maximum, contains the copyright label.

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Grid Thumbnail Gallery

Grid Thumbnail Gallery

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PostcardViewer

PostcardViewer is a free, customizable Flash image viewer. The interface is based on the real world metaphor of a set of postcards shuffled onto a surface.

Here are some other stunning interactive photo galleries.

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Simpleviewer

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Free Flash Photo Album

Free Flash Photo Album

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Dynamic Flash Gallery with Slider Control

This gallery displays all image files in a given directory. A slider is used to browse easily through the images.

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Flash Gallery Component

This is a cute image gallery component with thumbnails of various images and user could see respective enlarged image by clicking any of the thumbnail.

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dfGallery

dfGallery is one of the catchy galleries on the Net. It is characterized by a great deal of features: support both Flickr, Picasa, Fotki, Photobucket and Custom Images; Enable / Disable “Print Screen”; Full Screen mode; Supports both RSS and Custom Images; Liquid Layout – Fits to any size you specify; Background MP3 music. It notifies if a new update is available, supports multiple languages and can be easily customized.