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If you need an application that magnifies specific areas in images, then Magnifying Glass Effect is the right choice for you. Images can be displayed in high resolution with no contrasts. You can define the image path, the display area size, and the lens size (XML or HTML). No Flash programming experience is necessary to edit the file, since all the settings are loaded from an external XML file (easy editable).

Features include:

• Scalable lenses
• Scalable display area
• Scalable image

General details:

• Opens with: Flash CS3+
• Resolution: Resizable
• Published size: 20kb
• ActionScript version: AS3

The image is automatically resized to fit the entire display area, and this is the minimum zoom of the image. The large image is the maximum zoom of the image. Through the lenses the user can see the image at the highest resolution, without the need to wait for a different image to load.

AnythingZoomer is a JQuery plugin useful to zoom specific areas such as text and images. You can customize the zoom area via CSS and also use multiple zoomers on the same page.

It’s flexible in many ways, in that the “small”, “large”, and “zoom” areas are all pretty easy to customize (via CSS). It’s inflexible in other ways, in that it doesn’t “automatically” work by cloning content or anything like that (which is arguably more flexible), and the HTML structure is fairly rigid.

JQuery Image Magnify is a script by Dynamic Drive that enables any image to be magnified by a specific factor when clicked on using a sleek zoom in/out effect. The image is zoomed to the center of the user’s screen. You just have to set a smaller width and height for the image then apply the class ‘magnify’ to it.

This script is extremely easy to set up- to enable the “magnify” effect on any image, just give it a CSS class of “magnify”. It’s time to let you users take a closer look at images on your page!

Do you need to implement a lightbox that has the zoom effect when it is triggered? Take a look at the following resources! Some of the frameworks used to develop the scripts are JQuery, MooTools, and Prototype.

FancyZoom 1.1 is a LightBox designed to view images inline without reloading the web page. It provides a smooth, clean, truly Mac-like effect. It’s very simple to implement in the pages of your website and it doesn’t use any JavaScript libraries.

Features include:

• Easy to implement (requires just two lines of code in your HTML page)
• Focuses on the smoothest, most polished zooming animation possible
• Preloads full-size images in the background on link mouseover
• Offsets the full-size image from the page by drawing a nice drop shadow under it
• Uses Safari 3’s “box-shadow” feature to draw the drop shadow natively, no images required

jQuery plugin: Fancy Zoom – This is the JQuery version of the FancyZoom script. It comes with a few changes:

• Fixed the overlay bug in IE6
• images are resized if size is bigger than document screen
• FancyZoom can be applied directly on an image, no more link wrapper needed.

Zoomy JavaScript based loosely on Fancy Zoom by Cabel Sasser – Developer John Nunemaker rewrote the original FancyZoom script, making some changes to it such as:

• Implementation of box rounded corners
• Works with any HTML (images, text, headings, flash)
• Width and Height of Zoom Box are configurable through optional setting or CSS

The package contains FancyZoom versions for JQuery, MooTools and Prototype.

Hoverbox Image Gallery is a super light-weight (8kb) roll-over photo gallery that uses CSS. It pop outs an image without affecting the page’s layout.

[Go to Project Page | View Demo | Download]

Fancy Thumbnail Hover Effect w/ jQuery is a nice tutorial that teaches you how to add a nice hover effect to an image. A bigger image pops out above the thumbnail.

[Go to Project Page | View Demo]

JQZoom is a JavaScript image magnifier built using the popular library JQuery. It works on all modern browsers: IE 6+, Mozilla Firefox 2+, Google Chrome 1.0, Safari 2+, Opera 9+.

Features

• Standard zoom
• Reverse zoom
• Zoom without lens and title
• Custom positioning the jqzoom window
• Fade out effect while hiding
• Fixed IE6- select box bug

[Go to Project Page | View Demos]

MooTools 1.2 image zoom is a script that displays a thumbnail with a selected region in it which is magnified and showed next to the thumbnail. Besides the small image, the original image is needed. Both have to be proportional in size. For example, if the thumbnail has a size of 100 x 300, the big image has to have a size of 400 x 1200 or similar (the ratio should be kept). The JS file is structured as a class and all CSS styles are mainly external.

[Go to Homepage | View Demo]