Having an online portfolio is crucial for any photographer these days. Most have your standard run-of-the-mill gallery of images. It’s important to stand out from the crowd not only in your work but also in the presentation of that work. I have gathered several outstanding free solutions to make your portfolio stand out and add that wow factor to help get you noticed.
Flash Gallery
Easy installation, forms slideshow automatically, supports Flickr photostream, customizable design, and fully resizable.
Polaroid Gallery
A flash based stack of images resembling Polaroids on a table.
TiltViewer
TiltViewer is a free, customizable 3D Flash image viewing application. Click to view demo.
AutoViewer
From the makers of TiltViewer, AutoViewer is designed to display a linear sequence of images and captions. Click to view demo.
SimpleViewer
SimpleViewer is a free, customizable Flash image viewing application. Lightweight and easy to use, it features smart preloading, a resizable interface, thumbnail menu and optional description text.
ImageFlow
ImageFlow is an unobtrusive and userfriendly JavaScript image gallery.
minishowcase
minishowcase is a small and simple php/javascript online photo gallery, powered by AJAX/JSON that lets you put easily your images in an online gallery, without having to configure databases or changing and customising code
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.
SmoothGallery
This javascript gallery and slideshow system allows you to have simple and smooth (cross-fading…) image galleries, slideshows, showcases and other cool stuff on your website…