15+ Best Flash Galleries Round up – Useful for Web Designers / Animators / Script Writers

By using a Flash Gallery you can create slide shows efficiently. All you need is, access to a computer system and related software to customize. Below is a very nice and attractive collection of flash xml galleries . Review the list of Free Flash Galleries. Most of them are dynamic and use a XML file to load the pictures and an action script file to customize the effects if needed.

Flash Gallery 0.2

Flash Gallery is a Free, simple photo gallery built in Macromedia Flash 2004, that uses XML files to store the information about which images to display. The gallery is easy to configure and update since you need to change only the XML file.

It may be used in any kinds of personal and/or commercial projects. Flash Gallery may not be redistributed or resold to other companies or third parties.

Website: http://www.flashgallery.org

Demo: http://www.flashgallery.org/demo.html

Download: http://www.flashgallery.org/download.php

Airtight Interactive

Some great Flash work from Airtight Interactive.

1- Simple Viewer

SimpleViewer is a free, customizable Flash image viewing application.

Features:

Intelligent image pre-loading.
Intuitive image navigation
Lightweight (17k).
Customizable interface – Set text color, frame color and width, navigation position.
Resizable interface – Interface scales to fit browser window.
Cross platform – Windows/Macintosh/Linux (requires Flash 8 or higher).
Flash 8 detection. Users without Flash 8 are messaged to upgrade Flash.
International font support.
Keyboard Navigation (Cursor keys, Home, End, Page Up/Down)
Mousewheel navigation
Optionally right-click to open image in a new window.
Free!

Website: http://www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/

Demo:

• Hi-Res Demo - Full-browser, no captions.
• Lo-Res Demo – Full-browser, captions, background image.
• Small Format Demo - Embedded in HTML page.

Download: http://www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/simpleviewer.zip

2- 3D Flash image viewing

TiltViewer is a free, customizable 3D Flash image viewing application.

Website: http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/tiltviewer/

Demo: http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/tiltviewer/app/

Download: http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/tiltviewer/tiltviewer.zip

3- Postcard Viewer

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.

Features:

Intuitive image navigation, using mouse or keyboard (use spacebar and cursor keys)
Displays image captions. Captions can be HTML formatted including hyperlinks.
Lightweight (18k).
Cross platform – Windows/Macintosh/Linux (requires Flash 8 or higher).
Flash 8 detection. Users without Flash 8 are redirected to an upgrade page.
Free!

Website: http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/postcardviewer/

Demo: http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/postcardviewer/app/

Download: http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/postcardviewer/postcardviewer.zip

4- AutoViewer

AutoViewer is a free, customizable Flash image viewer. AutoViewer is designed to display a linear sequence of images and captions.

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. Users without Flash 8 are redirected to an upgrade page.
Free!

Website: http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/autoviewer/

Demo:

• AutoViewer Full Browser Demo
• AutoViewer Small Format Demo

Download: http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/autoviewer/autoviewer.zip

Zen Flash Gallery

Zen Flash Gallery combines simplicity and elegance. Minimalism goes together with functionality and does not distract the user from viewing of images, his main task.

Features:

Flash component (cs3) and swf-xml versions available
Multiple image folders
Gallery parameters configuration via XML
Image captions Slideshow mode
Sound effects

Website: http://flash-gallery.com/zen-flash-gallery/

Demo: http://flash-gallery.com/zen-flash-gallery/demo

Download: http://flash-gallery.com/zen-flash-gallery/free-download

Flash Gallery

Flash Gallery is a free application that allows you to create a slideshow on your website easy and fast. 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 from Flickr photostream.
Features:
Easy installation (no programming skills required)
Forms slideshow automatically (scans specified folder for images, creates thumbnails and uses filenames for titles)
Supports Flickr photostream
Customizable design
Fully resizable
Fullscreen option
and of course, it’s free…

Website: http://www.flash-gallery.org

Demo: http://www.flash-gallery.org/demo.html

Download: http://www.flash-gallery.org/download.html

XML Image Gallery With Source Files

An open source image gallery, You can download source files.

Website: http://tonyyoo.com

Demo: http://www.tonyyoo.com/gallery/gallery.html

Download: http://tonyyoo.com/gallery/ImageGallery.zip

19 Free Picasa Flash & HTML templates to make slideshows

Website, Demo and Download: http://www.paulvanroekel.nl/picasa/

Art Flash Gallery

Art Flash Gallery will organically blend with any design thanks to multiple appearance settings.

Features
Flash component (cs3) and swf-xml versions available
Advanced appearance configuration possibilities
Gallery parameters configuration via XML
Convenient thumbnail bar
Navigation bar Image captions
Slideshow mode
Full-screen mode
Sound effects
Gallery code is optimized for high productivity

Website: http://flash-gallery.com/art-flash-gallery/

Demo: http://flash-gallery.com/art-flash-gallery/demo/

Download: http://flash-gallery.com/art-flash-gallery/free-download/

Documentation: http://flash-gallery.com/art-flash-gallery/userguide/

Polaroid Gallery

Polaroid Gallery is a free, opensource flash gallery developed by Christopher Einarsrud.

Website: http://www.interviewchris.com/

Demo: http://www.no3dfx.com/polaroid/

Download: http://www.no3dfx.com/polaroid/

Flash Photo Stack Gallery

A nice gallery built with PHP and Flash.

Website: http://www.andrewberg.com

Demo: http://www.andrewberg.com/photobrowser/afpb_flash.html

Download: http://www.andrewberg.com/photobrowser/afpb_flash.html

Flash Page Flip Photo Gallery template for Picasa

This template is based on the free version of the FlashPageFlip flash engine on www.flashpageflip.com. It lacks the advanced functions of the commercial versions but still makes a very nice photo album on your website. You can see and hear the pages flip.

Website: http://www.paulvanroekel.nl/picasa/flashpageflip/

Demo:

http://www.paulvanroekel.nl/picasa/flashpageflipdemo/landscape/

http://www.paulvanroekel.nl/picasa/flashpageflipdemo/portrait/

Download: http://www.paulvanroekel.nl/picasa/flashpageflip/

dfGallery

dfGallery is one of the coolest Galleries currently on the Web.

Features:

Flash Gallery to support both Flickr , Picasa , Fotki, Photobucket and Custom Images.
Enable / Disable “Print Screen” ( requested by Photographers )
Easily Customizable
Full Screen mode. ( on the Right Click – Flash Player 9)
Supports both RSS and Custom Images.
Liquid Layout – Fits to any size you specify.
Background MP3 music.
Multiple language support.
Notifies if a new update is available.
… and its FREE

Website: http://www.dezinerfolio.com/2007/06/07/dfgallery/

Download: http://www.dezinerfolio.com/system/files/dfgallery_1_003b.zip

Documentation: http://www.dezinerfolio.com/system/files/Manual.zip

Flash Photo Album

Flash photo album is a good and easy to use gallery.

Features

It is FREE
Dynamic Picture loading
Easy to install and easy to change content
Show pictures automatically with slide show
Integrate to any web site
No server side scripting or database requirement
Adds great look and functionality to your web site
Specify other configuration file like asp or php.
Showing selected image on thumb and showing selected page of thumbs.
Ability to show up to 1200 images.

Website: http://www.veppa.com/services/flash-photo-gallery.php

Download: http://www.veppa.com/cnt_inc.php?p_f=fl_vfpg.zip

Flash and Ajax Photo Gallery – AgileGallery

AgileGallery is a photo gallery that rips through the XML output from Picasa (a free download from google) and generates the paging and thumbnails and displays the full sized photos along with any captions entered in Picasa.

AgileGallery presently comes in two flavors – one for AJAX that requires nothing more than a website to for your photos and the gallery scripts and a modern web browser.

AgileGallery is also available as a Flash version of the gallery that has the same functionality for Flash and the added requirement of the free Flash Player.

Website: http://www.agilegallery.com/

Demo: http://www.agilegallery.com/demo.html

Download: http://www.agilegallery.com/download.html

PhotoFlow Flash Gallery

The gallery already contains several default color skins. You can create your custom color skin too.

Features:

Flash component (cs3) and swf-xml versions available
Cover flow effect
Premade color skins
Scroll bar
Gallery parameters configuration via XML
Image captions
Slideshow mode
Sound effects
Gallery code is optimized for high productivity
HTML links for images

Website: http://flash-gallery.com/photoflow-flash-gallery/

Demo: http://flash-gallery.com/photoflow-flash-gallery/demo/

Download: http://flash-gallery.com/photoflow-flash-gallery/free-download/

Documentation: http://flash-gallery.com/photoflow-flash-gallery/userguide/