25 Beautiful Image Styling Tutorials With CSS,jQuery
Daniels MekšsRecently I wrote article about post thumbnail and you saw some great examples of image styling. As I wrote there, neat styled images can attract more visitors and you will be more pleasant with them yourself too.
You don’t have to always use Photoshop to style your images. Some cool effects can be achieved trough CSS, jQuery etc too and I strongly suggest you to continue reading to find out how to do it!
1. CSS3 Rounded Image With jQuery
Learn to wrap a span tag around the image element to achieve rounded images which will be displayed right in all modern browsers.
2.Multiple Backgrounds and Borders with CSS 2.1
Learn how to use CSS 2.1 pseudo-elements to provide up to 3 background canvases, 2 fixed-size presentational images, and multiple complex borders for a single HTML element.
3. Quick Tip: Multiple Borders with Simple CSS
Quick screencast showing you how to achieve multiple borders with simple CSS that way adding more depth to your designs. Much simplier version of previous tutorial.
4. Multiple Borders on Dynamically Sized Elements with CSS2
Third version of Nicolas Gallagher showing you what to do if you don’t the size of element.
5. Have Fun w/ Borders – Beveled, Pressed, & More!
Learn how to achieve pressed effect with CSS and some simple border style tricks to get various effects.
6. Polaroids with CSS3
Learn how to use some awesome CSS2 and CSS3 to turn an otherwise unassuming list of images into a full-blown set of Polaroid pictures.
7. Perfect Full Page Background Image
Learn how to add background image with CSS that fills entire page with image, no white space, scales image as needed, does not cause scrollbars and much more.
8. CSS3 Box Shadow and Image Hover Effects
Explore a new way of adding drop shadow effects just by editing a style sheet.
9. Fancy Thumbnail Hover Effect w/ jQuery
Achieve neat flash-style effect with CSS and jQuery.
10. How To Create Simple CSS Image Rollover Effect
In this tutorial you are going to learn how to create simple CSS image rollover effect with basic HTML and CSS styling.
11. Floatutorial
Floatutorial takes you through the basics of floating elements such as images, drop caps, next and back buttons, image galleries, inline lists and multi-column layouts. Check out 4 tutorials dedicated to image floating.
12. Snazzy Hover Effects Using CSS
In this tutorial, you will be going over creating flexible advanced hover techniques using CSS2.1 properties.
13. Fast Rollovers Without Preload
When using CSS image rollovers, two, three, or more images must be loaded (and often be preloaded for best results). Learn how to put all states into one image makes dynamic changes faster and requires no preload.
14. jQuery Rounded Corners
Lots of jQuery effects for rounded corners and much more patterns.
15. Easiest Tooltip and Image Preview Using jQuery
See 3 examples of using jQuery rollover preview script. This simple script can be applied for a variety of purposes.
16. Supersized – Full Screen Background/Slideshow
jQuery Plugin
Superzided is a jQuery plugin that resizes images to fill browser while maintaining image dimension ratio and cycles Images/backgrounds via slideshow with transitions and preloading.
17. PNG Overlay
Have you ever run into the problem of creating a site with pictures given by the client, only to find later after they update their photography the original look and feel is not retained? This solution involves creating a transparent PNG overlay which can be used as a mask / frame around regular JPEG or GIF. This way, a typical CMS installation can be configured so users can upload photos without having to worry about using any graphics program to apply filters.
18. BeZoom Lighweight JQuery Zoom Plugin
BeZoom is a simple and lightweight alternative for JQZoom. It’s lighter and it’s easier to use.
19. Using jQuery for Background Image Animations
Play with jQuery and change the position of the background image to create the type of effect you’re looking for. There’s a new article answering the “How do I handle active states?” – Handling Active State for jQuery Animated Backgrounds.
20. 5 Ways to Spice up Your Images with CSS
Here are a few simple tricks to add some flavor to your typical bland images. Using Photoshop to style each image can be tedious and difficult to maintain in the long run. These following CSS techniques will help you ease that pain.
21. How To: Resizeable Background Image
Learn how to set up resizeable background image with CSS. You have 3 options to choose from.
22. Style Your Image Links
Letting users know that particular section of our website is meant to be clicked on is best achieved through mouse over effect. Those “clickable” sections certainly include content images. Image Link is a script that enables you to apply additional styling to your image links.
23. Multiple Background Images with CSS
At times, it makes more sense to use background images than to insert them directly into the page. And while each element – like your body tag – can hold only one background image, they can be applied to several elements.
24. Image Borders with CSS
Really easy tutorial showing you how to add solid border to images using CSS.
25. CSS Sprites without Using Background Images
Learn how to apply hover effect without lot of knowledge about CSS sprites.
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Maternity Jeans
Posted 33 days ago 19Does anyone know of a good way to use a drop shadow effect with jquery instead of CSS3? Sadly, I have to program for IE (in addition to other browsers). Cheers for the article!
Web Design
Posted 57 days ago 18JQuery always fascinating me thanks for great tips. I will try to use this
Purna Magum
Posted 80 days ago 17Awesome collection man
Lyrics
Posted 99 days ago 16Nice collection! All styles are looking pretty cool! Thanks!
farzad
Posted 111 days ago 15Hi
Thank you,i use this samples in our website.
Matt
Posted 178 days ago 14Some nice techniques here. I am always looking for new ways to improve our own company and also customer websites. I prefer to do most things in CSS3 / HTML markup if possible, but have recently started using jQuery, SQL and javascript for calculation modules on our company website (www.ndb-europe.co.uk). Websites like this one really help get the creative juices flowing – keep up the good work.
Ramesh Vishwakarma
Posted 205 days ago 13Thanks dude nice collection I am going to use one of theme.
HTML Developer
Posted 251 days ago 12All these are good but iam trying to find a flexible border which will work both horizontally and vertically. border of my images is cluttered. paper like effect. I can either make it flexible horizontally or vertically but not in both directions. is there any solution?
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Posted 410 days ago 10Excellent, just the list I was looking for. Thanks for posting!
Glow
Posted 524 days ago 9Awesome collection to share.
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Posted 552 days ago 8Nice, i was looking for something like this nice article thanks Daniels
Din
Posted 556 days ago 7Usefull piece of work
Suneel
Posted 557 days ago 6Awesome collection to share and bookmark.
Thanks for taking time and posting this for us.
Cheers.
Hanibaal
Posted 558 days ago 5Great Collection.. thanks
Now I got to pick one for my project.. ummm.. might do a combination…
certainly inspiring :)
Zeeshan Rasool
Posted 558 days ago 4Awesome collection, specially jquery rounded corner. Thanks for such a nice collection
esranull
Posted 559 days ago 3very nice list thanks a lot
Toyin
Posted 561 days ago 2Great article! This is really an eye opener for me. Now I know that I can style Images and Image links too. Thanks for this article.
Nicolas Gallagher
Posted 562 days ago 1Thanks for linking to one of my articles.
However, articles 3 and 4 are far more limited versions of one of the techniques I wrote about. Article 3′s implementation doesn’t work for elements that do not have explicitly stated dimensions and makes content links unclickable; Article 4′s implementation also makes content links unclickable and reduces the flexibility of the border’s size and positioning.
I only mention this to avoid people using code that has significant limitations that can have an impact on the flexibility afforded to the developer and the experience conferred to the user.